Album ufficiale Esposizione di Milano, 1906
An official photographic album of the 1906 Milan International Exposition, the Esposizione internazionale del Sempione, published in Milan by Foto-Eliografica as a souvenir for visitors and buyers. Its hand-coloured plates show the exposition's pavilions, gateways and gallery buildings, with captions naming each view. A designer might take from them the saturated pastel tints, soft sky gradients and ornate Beaux-Arts facades typical of early twentieth-century Italian exhibition architecture.
