Exploring the Wonderland Home of the Father of Futurism, Casa Balla

| Tue, 07/06/2021 - 13:06
Living room
 of Casa Balla
Back to the Future or Have We Arrived?

The From Home to the Universe and Back project has come to its completion with the reopening of apartment 39B on Via Oslavia in the Prati quarter in Rome. What makes this humble residence so important? Artist Giacomo Balla, widely considered one of the fathers of the Italian Futurist movement, lived here with his two daughters Luce and Elica from 1929 until his death in 1958 and turned this pretty bourgeois apartment into a liveable work of

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