Ca’ de l’Oreggia (House of the Ear)
Palazzo Sola-Busca
Via Serbelloni
Milano, May 2018
“In via Serbelloni 10 there is a Liberty-style building called Palazzo Sola-Busca, equipped with a little unusual intercom. The palace was renamed Ca’ de l’Oreggia (the House of the Ear, in Milanese dialect), because on the wall to the right of the main entrance door there is a bronze telephone, now clearly no longer working, just right shaped as an ear. It is the first intercom in Milan and one of the first in history. The work was made by the Milanese sculptor Adolfo Wildt in 1930, following the request for the construction of a particular intercom. Wildt thought well of seeing the function of that communication medium by giving it an ad hoc form: his ear. Immediately referable to the purpose, the allusive sense of that form was to ‘listen’ to the city.” (The House of the Ear, Milan City Tour)
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