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"To Italy with Love\nAn American's Trove of Decorative Arts and Ephemera Finds a Home in Genoa\nCollector Mitchell \"Micky\" Wolfson, Jr., founded the Wolfsoniana, a museum in a suburb of Genoa that houses decorative arts and propaganda from approximately 1880 to 1945.\n\"My father always instructed his children to trust the public, to give back,\" says Wolfson. The other part of his collection is in The Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami.\nGiuseppe Carnevale's 1896 marble statues of Giuseppe Mazzini and Victor Emmanuel II.\nA 1933 chair in the Novecento style by Marcello Piacentini, a favored architect of Italy's Fascist regime.\nA Futurist painted ceramic coffee and tea set by Casa Giuseppe Mazzotti, circa 1925.\nTiles with Fascist themes, 1931-32, by Corrado Cagli and Dante Baldelli.\nAn 1890 pyramidal bed by Alberto and Fabio Fabbi.\nAntonio Rubino created a child's bedroom, circa 1921.\nCarved scroll mounts flank an 1879 inlaid walnut secretary by Paolo Campodonico. \"I believe you can get closer to people's behavior by reading the language of objects than you can reading history or a novel,\" says Wolfson.\nA 1902 chair by Luigi Fontana &amp;amp; C."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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