Ca' Foscari - The Entrance Hall

The Entrance Hall

The entrance hall was restored in 1936 by the great Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. On that occasion Scarpa designed:

  • the glass wall entrance, which reminds the window of the great hall on the second floor;
  • the benches (with the typical T-shape pattern present in other works by Carlo Scarpa);
  • the handrail of the nineteenth-century stairway;
  • the lamps

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