The Brion tomb , also known as the Brion sanctuary and Brion-Vega tomb , in San Vito d'Altivole near Treviso , Italy , is the burial ground of the Brion family. It was designed by Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa between 1968–1978 as an L-shaped 2,000 m (22,000 sq ft) extension to the adjacent municipal cemetery . It is regarded as a masterpiece of post-modernist architecture and a powerful commemorative monument.
11-507: Scarpa felt that "the place for the dead is a garden" and is himself buried adjacent to the Brion sanctuary. 45°45′05″N 11°54′48″E / 45.751323°N 11.913341°E / 45.751323; 11.913341 The monumental project was commissioned in 1969 by Onorina Tomasin-Brion , widow of Giuseppe Brion [ it ] , the founder of the Brionvega company. The enclosure
22-496: A RadioMarelli worker, whom she married in the same year and moved to Milan . In 1945, together with her husband and the engineer Leone Pajetta, she founded BP Radio (later Brionvega ), a company specialized in the production of electronic and electrical components for radios, as well as complete radio sets with the Vega brand. Tomasin dealt with the marketing of the products, but after the sudden death of her husband in 1968, she took over
33-589: A separate and locked entrance, and a heavily vegetated reflecting pool. A conservation restoration of the Brion tomb was completed in September 2021. The Brion heirs, Ennio and Donatella, donated the site to Italian Environmental Fund (FAI) in 2022. The Brion tomb was used for filming of Dune: Part Two in July 2022. Onorina Tomasin-Brion Onorina "Rina" Tomasin-Brion (1919 Santa Giustina in Colle – 2002 Milan )
44-484: Is a private burial ground for the Brion family. Their twinned sarcophagi are central to the composition. The sanctuary is designed as a composition of concrete buildings with distinctive detailing set in gardens with water features. It has been described as "both a meditation on death and an evocation of a particular magical city, Venice ". Scarpa has been quoted as saying "I like water very much, perhaps because I am Venetian ..." Scarpa began designing this addition to
55-505: Is buried together with her husband in the San Vito d'Altivole cemetery. The Brion family tomb was designed by the architect Carlo Scarpa . Banca Cattolica del Veneto Banca Cattolica del Veneto was an Italian bank based in Vicenza, Veneto. in 1989 it was merged with Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano to form Banco Ambrosiano Veneto . Founded in 1892, as Banca Cattolica Vicentina by
66-491: The Catholic Church, in 1930 the bank was renamed to Banca Cattolica del Veneto , as well as absorbing Banca Cadorina , Banca Cattolica Atestina and Banca Cattolica di Udine in 1930, Banca Feltrina , Banca Provinciale di Belluno and Banca Cattolica San Liberale in 1931, Banca Depositi e Prestiti di Feltre in 1936, Banca Depositi e Prestiti G. Fabris, F. Favero and Banca Bassanese A. Girardello in 1938. In 1946
77-986: The company continued its path of growth and expansion throughout the 1970s. Tomasin-Brion received awards such as the Cavaliere del Lavoro (1972), the Dalla Gavetta Award (1973), the Umberto Biancamano National Award, and the Golden Ambrogino (1981). She was a director of the Banca Cattolica del Veneto and vice president of the Lombard section of the National Federation of the Knights of Labour . From her marriage to Giuseppe Brion she had two children, Ennio and Donatella. She died in 2002, and
88-499: The existing municipal cemetery of San Vito d'Altivole in 1968. Although he continued to consider changes to the project, it was completed before his accidental death in Japan in 1978. Several discrete elements comprise the family burial site: a sloped concrete enclosing wall, two distinct entrances, a small chapel, two covered burial areas (the arcosolium for Giuseppe and Onorina Brion, and one for other family members). The "viewing device" of
99-476: The management together with her son Ennio, and he succeeded in the offices of president and chief executive officer. The radios and televisions produced by Brionvega, had great commercial success all over the world and became known for their particular design . The best designers of the time worked there such as Marco Zanuso , Richard Sapper , the brothers Achille , Livio , and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni , Mario Bellini and Franco Albini . Under her management,
110-461: The pavilion of meditation suggests a vesica piscis , a recurring motif in Scarpa's architecture. Venetian influences such as the gold tiles familiar from Byzantine mosaics and Japanese influences such as the tea-room inspiration of the chapel are evident in the design. In the garden are a dense grove of cypresses, a prato (lawn), and a private meditation/viewing pavilion, separated from the main prato by
121-507: Was an Italian entrepreneur and business manager. She was also one of the first women to be awarded the Cavaliere del Lavoro , in 1972. She was born in Santa Giustina in Colle , in the Province of Padua , in 1919, into a family of merchants from the town who owned a haberdashery . In 1939, during a train journey to Castelfranco Veneto , she met Giuseppe Brion [ it ] ,
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