The few buildings of Arabian influence, already published on the occasion of this game seem to have liked, since AR sent us this impressive villa built in a resort (And thermal) of Apulia, near Otranto. Its name comes from the contractor Oronzo Sticchi, who was the builder, probably also the designer and certainly the lucky recipient.
The building is well before the era of Art Nouveau, it dates from 1885, but is involved in this taste "exotic" that allowed to escape the Academy: Neo-Gothic and Orientalism, by This desire for renewal picturesque, have largely contributed to the emergence of the Modern Style.
The Arab influence allowed the introduction into the architecture Western original forms, but also the color, not only through the ceramic. Blue and ocher, the villa Sticchi play this game completely oriental architecture of fantasy, with its imposing dome, its different galleries with beautiful columns carved differently, the quality of some of its decorative elements. It will be noted in this connection, the beauty of geometric ornaments exterior stairs, the beautiful stone lace covering some panels, the gold-plated from the loggia of the main facade.
Sticchi built the baths of this charming little town, from 1899. It was therefore a personality local, even if AR informs us that his company was still based in Maglie.
Many of these follies have unfortunately disappeared. The Lille region - to make a comparison with France - was literally covered with these strange oriental palaces the now extinct. But elsewhere, there are countless imitations of the palace of Bardo, which was built in the fifteenth century in Tunis, which was one of the main models of this mode, which was always temporary, but cyclical, since the late eighteenth century.
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