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The first inheritance, with financial provisions, received by FAI (Fondazione Ambiente Italiana) is a building in the historic center of Lavagna. It is a coherent example of domestic fin-de-siè architecture characterized, inside and out, by its typical Ligurian character. Rich in furnishings and then-contemporary paintings, the Carbone house preserves in an exceptional manner a domestic ambiance of a bourgeoise Ligurian family of the 20th century before "the needs of our civilization de-personalized our homes," to cite the words of the brothers Emanuele and Siria Carbone, the last inhabitants of the house, who donated it to FAI.
Casa Carbone
Via Riboli, 14
Lavagna (Genua, Italy)
Tel. +39-02-4676.1583 (office)
Tel. +39-0185.393920 (reservations)
Fax. +39-02-4819.3631
http://www.fondoambiente.it/luoghi/Lavagna/index.htm
Opening Hours:
From March to October: 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Open Saturday and Sunday; for all other days, reservations are necessary
DEMHIST International Committee for Historic House Museums
Frick Museum, New York
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Museo Cerralbo, Madrid
Museo Mario Praz, Roma
Museo Giannettino Luxoro, Genova Nervi
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
The Casa del Podestà, Lonato
The Museum of Decorative Arts-Pietro Accorsi Foundation, Turin
Conference in Genova, November 2000 (Acts available from DEMHIST)
Conference in Barcelona - July 2001 (Acts available from DEMHIST)
Conference in Amsterdam - October 2002 (Acts available from DEMHIST)
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