Pietro Fenoglio's first independent commissions in the…
1901 CE
Sensing the fashion of the time, however, his interest subsequently turned to Art Nouveau, and after 1900 he becomes the leading protagonist of the style in Turin.
Commissions in a period of rapid economic expansion and prosperity are plentiful and Fenoglio becomes extremely prolific, establishing his studio at 60, Via XX Settembre, where he designs some of the major Italian examples of Art Nouveau.
One of his best known early works is the Villino Raby (1901), located in corso Francia 8 and built in collaboration with the architect Gottardo Gussoni.
Fenoglio was born in 1865 in Turin, four years after the modern unification of Italy into a single kingdom.
His father Giovanni was an administrator, while his mother Giacinta (née Guillot) was the daughter of the former Préfect of Chambéry, who had moved to Turin after Chambéry had been annexed by France in the Treaty of Turin in 1860.
After studying civil engineering under Carlo Ceppi at the Regia Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri di Torino (now the Politecnico di Torino), from which he graduated in 1889, he worked first for the firm of Brayda, Boggio and Reyend before forming his own firm.
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Staircase in the Villino Raby in Turin. Photo taken March 24, 2012 by Enryonthecloud
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