Cesare Scoccimarro Biography
Born on 09/12/1897 in Udine to a modest family of merchants. He undertook architecture courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, but in 1916 he was forced to interrupt his studies because he was called up to arms. At the end of the war he resumed his studies and graduated in 1921. In the same year he emigrated to Romania and worked there until 1924, when he returned to Italy. He stopped in Udine until 1931, where he worked as an architect and interior designer, initially through the Déco style and then moving on to the rationalist one (especially during his Milanese activity). In many of the buildings in his projects he not only defined the furniture, but also the ornaments and decorations, creating homogeneous environments with a strong interaction between architecture and interior spaces. In 1927 he replaced Giuseppe Barazzutti as artistic director of the production of the Fantoni furniture factory, to provide new shapes closer to modern trends. Initially, probably for reasons of the client, he resumed the rustic style and then revisited the traditional forms with a new spirit of simplification, arriving at a convinced adherence to the Deco taste. Among the various works carried out, he participated together with two other Friulian architects, Ermes Midena and Pietro Zanini, at the V triennale in Milan, in 1933, with the "Aviator's House", achieving great success. In 1931 he moved permanently to Milan, where he continued to work both as an architect and an interior designer. In 1942 he was called up to arms and after 8 September he participated in the clandestine Resistance movement. After the Second World War he regularly resumed his work and was elected as an independent candidate on the PCI list for the Milan city council. He died in Rome in 1953 after having moved there for health reasons. He is taken to the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.
