- Paths
- la Rinascente 1865-2017: the History of Deparment Store
- La Rinascente before la Rinascente
- La Rinascente. Ieri, oggi e domani
- FIFTY YEARS OF LA RINASCENTE’S HISTORY IN ITS HOUSE ORGAN’S PAGES
- Posters by Rinascente
- THE SKETCH BETWEEN ART AND ADVERTISING
- The Golden Years 1954-1957
- The Rinascente Design Centre
- Graphic design and visual communication lR
- Illustration is in vogue
- 150 years of fashion at Rinascente
- The lR Fashion Shows
- The innovative idea od introducing ethnic features
- Interior fittings
- The magic of department stores
- Rinascente is all about women!
- lR Special sales
- Rome Piazza Fiume
- 1931-2021 A life between fashion and design
- Themes
- Archives & Library
Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC) - Fondo Monti
The Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC – European Library of Information and Culture) is a new concept library in Italy, inspired by the structure of some of the major libraries around the world. The new Library sets out to combine, with a consistent programme of cultural artefact collection and organisation, the character of a large public library with that of a European research library, fulfilling the roles of classic and university libraries, as well as meeting the needs of interdisciplinary research. The Library has been set up, and is managed, by the Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (a participatory foundation, established on 6 February 2004) with the goal of promoting, establishing and spreading information about culture and art for educational purposes. The Foundation works to plan, support and promote projects and events regarding cultural and social happenings, assets and expressions in the field of cultural heritage, and the worlds of reading and multimedia.
On 12 February 2008, the BEIC Foundation finalised the purchase of the Paolo Monti Estate, which includes the photographic archive and Library. The Photographic Archive (of 223,000 negatives, 12,244 prints and 790 chemigrams) is held at the Civico Archivio Fotografico del Comune di Milano (Civic Photographic Archive of the Municipality of Milan) which has catalogued the entire collection (curated by Silvia Paoli, curator of the Civic Photographic Archive, and Pierangelo Cavanna). It is a collection of extraordinary beauty regarding people, places and monuments, photos that depict Italian life between 1943 and 1982. The collection is also a testament to how Paolo Monti constantly honed his artwork and ability to capture both clearly apparent features and hidden secrets, with a wealth of meaning and a formal elegance that reserves surprises and emotion.
The Library of Paolo Monti (composed of about 1000 pieces, including monographs and periodicals) is held at the Civic Photographic Archive and has been catalogued in the National Library Service by the BEIC Foundation.
The selection presented here comprises some prints with floral motifs made for la Rinascente and 31 photographs dated 1958 and 1966, which reveal the window displays and outside area of the Rinascente store of the Piazza Duomo in Milan.
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For more information, visit www.beic.it
Funds
- Archivio la Rinascente
- Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana
- Civica Raccolta delle Stampe “Achille Bertarelli”
- Civico Archivio Fotografico di Milano
- CASVA (Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive), gli archivi del progetto a Milano
- Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - fondo Sommariva
- Fondazione La Triennale di Milano - Biblioteca del Progetto e Archivio Storico
- Fondazione La Triennale di Milano - Archivio Paola Lanzani
- Fondazione La Triennale di Milano - Archivio Piercarla Toscano Lanzani Racchelli
- Archivio Brustio-La Rinascente - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- Archivi Storici Politecnico di Milano – Archivio Albe e Lica Steiner
- Archivio Progetti, Università Iuav di Venezia – Fondo Giorgio Casali
- Camera di Commercio di Milano
- Archivio storico - Intesa Sanpaolo
- Archivio storico UniCredit
- Fondazione ADI Collezione Compasso d'Oro
- Fondazione Fiera Milano - Archivio storico
- Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC) - Fondo Monti
- Fondazione Piero Portaluppi
- Archivio Romualdo Borletti
- Touring Club Italiano
- Archivi Farabola
- Archivio Saporetti Immagini d'Arte
- Archivio Ballo+Ballo
- Archivio Mario Bellini
- Archivio Adriana Botti Monti
- Archivio Cesare Breveglieri
- Archivio Mario Cristiani
- Archivio Salvatore Gregorietti
- Archivio Max e Aoi Huber
- Associazione Giancarlo Iliprandi
- Archivio Amneris Latis
- Archivio Serge Libiszewski
- Archivio Italo Lupi
- Archivio Tomás Maldonado
- Archivio Ettore Mariani
- Archivio Rosanna Monzini
- Archivio Augusto Morello
- Archivio Nicolò Nefri
- Archivio Ornella Noorda
- Archivio Gian Carlo Ortelli
- Archivio Carlo Pagani
- Archivio Pittorico Roberto Sambonet, Milano
- Archivio Giorgio Pulici
- Archivio Vanity MFI
- Archivio Galati
- Collezione Michele Rapisarda
- I Vostri Contributi