Architecture

Achille Castiglioni

1918–2002Local figure

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

Created here
Achille Castiglioni Foundation Studio Museum
He worked here for decades, developing and testing many of his celebrated industrial-design projects.
Burial place
Monumental Cemetery of Milan
One of Milan’s two largest cemeteries, known for an extraordinary concentration of artistic tombs, family mausoleums, and memorial sculpture.
Created here
Palazzo Castiglioni
When this Liberty-style palace was unveiled in 1903, two voluptuous nude figures above the entrance scandalized conservative Milan and earned the building the nickname “House of Buttocks.” The owner capitulated and removed the statues, making the palace an early example of bold modern design being literally redesigned by public outrage.
Created here
Palazzo della Permanente
A respectable exhibition palace that became a battleground between official art and Milan’s younger rebels. After wartime bombing, its radical reconstruction turned the building itself into a showcase of postwar modern design.

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