Villa Favard
The Villa Favard , also Palazzo Favard , is a historical city palace in Florence , on the corner of Via Curtatone and Lungarno Vespucci .
history
The building, one of the last large private residences in the center of Florence, was commissioned by the Baroness Fiorella Favard de Langlade in 1857 from the architect Giuseppe Poggi . The baroness, daughter of a lieutenant in the Napoleonic customs authority and an Italian woman, was born in Livorno in 1813 and later lived in Marseille and Paris. Her husband Michel Favard is said to have been wealthy in French Guiana, but the sources of the baroness's wealth were always somewhat in the dark. In 1855 she returned to Italy, first having a villa built in Rovezzano , then the one mentioned here. In 1858 the elegantly balanced neoclassical building was finished.
The building is built on a square floor plan and the interior was also richly decorated with works by Annibale Gatti , Antonio Canova , Mussini , Bandinelli etc. Not everything has been preserved on the spot. The baroness died without heir in 1889; in 1893 all of their goods were auctioned. The Faculty of Economics of the Università di Firenze was housed in the house for decades , until it moved to the social science center of Novoli ( Polo delle Scienze Sociali di Novoli ) in 2004 .
In 2007 the palace was acquired by the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and has been the seat of the Polimoda Institute ( Istituto Internazionale di Fashion Design e Marketing ) since April 2011 .
literature
- Antonio Fredianelli: I palazzi storici di Firenze. Dalle austere dimore dei banchieri e dei mercanti agli splendori degli edifici rinascimentali, the "capricci" del Barocco all'eclettismo dell'Ottocento e oltre (= Quest'Italia. 340). Newton Compton Editori, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-541-0920-9 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 26.2 " N , 11 ° 14 ′ 30.2" E