A World's Fair in Italy: Turin 1911

Architectural Structure: Pavilion of the Royal Monopolies (Tobacco)

Gallery


Name:	Pavilion of the Royal Monopolies (Tobacco)
Alternative Names:	Padiglione delle Regie Privative
Description:	The Pavilion of the Royal Monopolies is composed of a spacious vestibule in a circular layout (surmounted by a slender and elegant cupola) from which one enters to the left the rooms dedicated to the Exhibition of Salts and Quinine and to the right the big hall of machines in action for the manufacture of tobacco. In front of the pavilion is a small experimental field for the cultivation of tobacco. In the room of the Exhibition of Salts is a big demonstrative model a salt mill in action, which serves to illustrate the process of salt extraction from seawater.
Construction:	1910-1911
Size:	800 square meters
Style:	Turinese Baroque (revival)
People:	Bongi, Orsino After spending his childhood in Tuscany, Orsino Bongi moved to Milan to attend the Scuola superiore di architettura at the Regio Istituto tecnico superiore (today’s Politecnico di Milano). He taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and worked on numerous projects for several of the pavilions at the International Exposition of Milan in 1906, including the massive French Pavilion. His team won a prize for the general project of the Padiglione Agraria, built in the Art Nouveau style. Bongi was also one of the main interpreters of the style known as Medievalismo lombardo (see his Galleria Warowland in Salsomaggiore Terme, which was commissioned to him by Count Ladislao Tyszkiewicz).