The marble road from Rima to Bucharest

text: Simina STAN

photo: Camil IAMANDESCU

Who can say that he or she has at least once entered the Athenaeum, the Domnița Bălașa church, the royal palaces of Bucharest and Sinaia and has not admired the interiors of the royal palaces of Bucharest and Sinaia?

the interiors of these monumental buildings? However, it was only recently that I found out that the Romanian Athenaeum, Peles Castle, Monteoru House, Vernescu House, St. Joseph's Cathedral, the Palace of Justice, the National Bank of Romania, Turnescu House, the Royal Palace in Calea Victoriei, the Discount Bank, the City Hall, the Domnița Bălașa Church, the Royal Cotroceni Palace, the Beer Carriage have something unusual and surprising in common: the decoration in artificial marble or stucco-marble, the work of the same craftsmen Pietro and Giovanni Axerio, from Rima. The name Antrepriza Axerio is mentioned in Bucharest from 1883 until 1936.

Read the full text in the printed edition of Arhitectura, nr 1/2011