In Milan we see all the colors, including an intercom in the shape of ... ear!
Besides being the first intercom in Italy, it is also a prestigious work of art that we can all admire while walking!
The first intercom in Italy has no button panel or labels with names and surnames and has a bizarre shape, that of a huge bronze ear.
Camp triumphantly on Casa Sola Busca, in via Serbelloni 10 (called by friends "Cà dell’Oregia"), right in the heart of Liberty Milan!
Our mega ear is a bronze sculpture, complete with an auricle and external auditory canal, made in the 1930s by Adolfo Wildt, one of the undisputed protagonists of Art Nouveau in Italy
Over the years, oregia has been the protagonist of various legends, including the one that says that anyone who approaches and whispers a wish will one day see it fulfilled (try to believe 😉).
Think that Wildt was also nicknamed l'oregiàt (the ear) for the high number of ears he had carved in his career ("I will have made more than a thousand", said the sculptor)
The building is also a real open-air work of art. It was built in the second half of the 1920s by the artist Aldo Andreani who specifically asked for an intercom "in disguise" of great aesthetic value which, in addition to having a practical purpose, also had an allusive meaning: that of listening to the city.
I leave you with one last little curiosity: the ear-intercom was used by the Milanese singer-songwriter Eugenio Finardi for the cover of his album "Acoustics".
