Palazzo Contarini

Palazzo Contarini, known as Palazzo d'Oro for the peculiarity of its decorations, was built by the architect Ettore Gilberti (1876-1935) between 1910 and 1934. Its rectangular block structure can be compared to Secessionist architecture with classicist references typical of the last D'Aronco. The 1934 project refers to the expansion of the already existing Casa Contarini which overlooks Via Manin. The expansion includes an "L" -shaped body with a single room on Via Prefettura and a space with reinforced concrete pillars overlooking the internal courtyard. The structure is characterized by decorations that are close to the Art Deco typologies: floral motifs in the frames, decorated cornices, classicist broken tympanums, shaped window frames, masks on the balconies. The part towards via Manin is dated to 1910, the twentieth century façade towards piazzetta Valentinis is instead the work of 1934, the year in which the building was completed.

beautiful nineteenth-century building