Sandro Petti Biography
Sandro Petti was born in Rome in 1927. Architect, landscape designer and painter, he has always chosen the center of the capital as the fulcrum of his creative, professional and personal experiences. His six studios in Via Margutta, from 1945 to 1972, hosted artists of the caliber of De Chirico, D'Orazio, Guttuso, Monachesi, Rotella and many others. Raised on the island of Ischia in the living rooms of the famous painters Colucci, regularly frequented by figures such as De Filippo, De Sica and the painters Casciaro and Carrà, Petti boasts important creations both in Italy and abroad, characterized by his unmistakable Mediterranean architectural imprint . Among all, we remember the creation, in the early 1980s, of a fifteen hectare peninsula in Qatar on behalf of SA, Royal Emir Khalifa Althani. His particular sensitivity towards art, music and culture in general, but above all his innate propensity for public relations, allowed him to frequent the best salons of the dolce vita as a protagonist. Petti was also the creator and sometimes manager of important nightclubs such as the "Jackie 'O" in Rome, "La Mela" in Naples, the "Castillo de Aragona" and "'O Rangio Fellone" in Ischia. After leaving Rome a few years ago, he lived on the Green Island, actively dedicating himself to the study of interventions aimed at improving the city's traffic and aesthetics, both in Rome and in Ischia, focusing in particular on the latter, which as he likes to repeat , "he definitely gave me a lot." In 2008 he published "The Tiber as it was, as it could be" and "Ischia". Petti dies in 2022.
