The Ottolenghi di Vallepiana PALACE
The building was built on commission from the wealthy landowner Cesare Boboli (also owner of the nearby Palazzo Boboli in via Farini 8) between 1870 and 1871, designed by the young architect David Ferruzzi.
Purchased by the Jewish Ottolenghi family of Vallepiana at the end of the seventies of the same century, it was abandoned by it following the promulgation of the racial laws of 1939.
Requisitioned during the Second World War by the German army that allocated it to housing for senior officers and representative functions, it was occupied immediately after the war by displaced people until, between 1958 and 1959, important renovations began on a project by the architect Enrico Miniati.
In addition to the internal division into several apartments, the building was raised on this occasion by the mezzanine. At the beginning of the seventies of the twentieth century the attic floor was obtained inside the volume of the roof.
Currently the front, without prejudice to the twentieth-century changes, is presented according to the design already made known by a beautiful panel published in Ricordi di Architettura in 1878.
Organized on five axes for two floors (now, as we said, enlarged by a mezzanine), it stands out, even in the substantial adherence to the neo-Renaissance language then in vogue, by the insistent decorativeism, exemplified by the theories of bound flower bouquets that are arranged on the lintels of the windows and frame the high door, in this case developing from vases of neoclassical shape.
The central axis of the building, as usual, has a balcony overlooking the door, crowned by a shield on which stands a large O, initial of the surname of the Ottolenghi family of Vallepiana.
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