44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
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The Art Deco Style Train Station in Rome
It's clearly very much more modern style than earlier train stations but it's still picking up their ideas of classical beauty high proportion. The facade is this very orange kind of pitted stone and then on the interior we have all of these beautiful quite off you know either plain or figured marbles. All of the fittings are these very weighty bronze frittings which are now highly kind of patinated and and going green.
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