Talk:Piero Malacrida de Saint-August

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12 North Audley Street[edit]

I have undone my recent edit about 12 North Audley Street for now. The EH listings seems to indicate that the bathroom is still in situ, but does not say so explicitly. Can anyone confirm? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:37, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to show it extant in 1975. It seems unlikely that it was removed after then, as the building was listed in 1958; so I've restored (and refactored) it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am under the impression it is no longer extant which is why I left it out of remaining works. To date, I’ve seen nothing to firmly convince me it still exists. The British were still destroying heritage items well after 1975, a bathroom would not have been held in much esteem whoever designed. Incidentally, I’ve only just noticed that cite attributes the design to the Marchesa, not the Marchese. Giano (talk) 21:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Olivotti[edit]

I've found a few scraps of information about Malacrida's company; I'll leave them here and let others decide how best to string them into the article.

From [1] p. 371 of Gilbert Frankau's Self-Portrait: "Enter, therefore, an architect and a heating engineer, both relatives; the Marchese Malacrida, known to his intimates as Peter; and Rosita, more commonly Zita, Forbes. Zita and Peter were associated in a building, decorating and furnishing business called Olivotti and Company. Peter has the best taste of any man in Europe. Zita's always seems to me just a little too exotic. But then so is her personality. Barring only Shelmerdine, she still exudes more glamour than any woman I know—and we had already known each other quite as long as either of us cared to remember in that March of 1929." (Frankau commissioned them to remodel his house at 17 Basil Street.)

Malacrida was chairman of "C. Olivotti (London) Ltd." when it was reorganized in August 1929.[2] It was apparently replaced by "Olivotti Ltd.", which was wound up in December 1935.[3] Frankau struggled to pay his bill to them after the Great Depression came on (pp. 379, 383) and one can only assume the outlook for the business was poor.

Olivotti was perhaps Carlo Olivotti, wholesale dealer in antiques, who moved from Venice to London in 1924. This letter might be useful, for anyone with access to the Wellcome Library. Choess (talk) 01:40, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Choess, that really very interesting. I will follow that up. We had thought that a collaborative name between Peter and Nadja, but it seems it may not have been. I need to do some more research on Rosita Forbes by 5he look of it. Giano (talk) 08:16, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]