Tag: carlo scarpa

R.M Schindler

Published on: September 27, 2016 By Gail Garlick

The early modernist Lechner House by R. M. Schindler was featured on the cover of last Sunday’s New York Times Style Magazine. Restored by architect Pamela Shamshiri, who lives in it with her two children, it’s a modernist’s dream. I poured over the article, noting every wonderful detail and marveled at the extent to … Continued

Carlo Scarpa’s Castelvecchio Museum

Published on: December 20, 2015 By Gail Garlick

On November 21st, The New York Times reported a robbery at the Castelveccchio, museum in Verona Italy. Seventeen masterpieces by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Peter Paul Rubens were taken. The incredibly amateurish robbers, after demanding the keys to the car of the single museum guard on duty, used it to make their getaway. Italy has long suffered … Continued