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Silvio Gambini
(Teramo, 1877 – Busto Arsizio, 1948)

Architect

During the first decade of the century he collaborated with many

architectural journals, and won the prize at the Oleggio agricultural,

industrial and art exhibition in 1906. Between 1906 and 1908, he worked

with the architect Giuseppe Sommaruga and his friend  the wrought iron artist Alessandro Mazzucotelli author of the numerous iron works in Busto Arsizio. These acquaintances helped Silvio  Gambini to express himself in the style Liberty.

The architect realized in Busto Arsizio besides the House Sand and the hotel Three Kings ( disappeared for premature demolitions ), villa Castiglioni in piazza Garibaldi , the building Colombo in via Manara, villa Leone in corso XX Settembre,  Tintoria Garavaglia and  water_mills Molini Marzoli Massari. His Works are mainly in Busto Arsizio and Milan.

 In 1911 he published in an article ‘Modern ironwork. Ideas and sketches’ 35 designs for doors and coffey shops.