At the intersection of Corso Italia and Via Imbriani we find Casa Polacco, an Art Nouveau building built in 1909 by the architect Romeo Depaoli for Gisella Polacco in place of an open space that was then called "Piazza delle pignatte" because of a market that it was held and this explains why the building is still part of the other buildings on the Corso.
The building has an irregular plan with the ground floor and mezzanine used for commercial use with large windows for the display of goods, in particular it housed a haberdashery shop for bourgeois hedgehogs, the Grande Salone di Mode, equipped in 1909 with one of the the first luminous signs of the city on the facade of the Corso, then it was the seat of the Italo Svevo bookshop, of the Richard Ginori firm and of the Banco di Napoli.
The decorations are elegant and light, pillars and thistle leaves adorn the facade and openings; the simplicity of the ground floor is contrasted by the increasingly richer decoration on the last three floors reserved for the Polish family's homes, a projecting cornice, windows with garlands and leaves under the windowsills and a band with lion faces.
The entrance is located on the rounded corner of the building, topped by a lunette embellished with a shield with the initials of the second owner of the building, the industrialist Gastone Dollinar, while the windows of the upper floors are delimited by Corinthian columns.
Polacco House
Address: Corso Italia, 22, 34122
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