Casa Malaparte

The Villa Malaparte is an architectural icon, the architect Adalberto Libera has built for the writer Curzio Malaparte on the Italian island of Capri.

History

Curzio Malaparte was the two-storey Villa Malaparte 1938-1940 on a projecting rock ( Punta Masullo ) above sea level build. Malaparte was a "casa come me", a house like me, build: "triste, dura, severa " - sad, hard and stern. Malaparte took this company in the attack, although he had never before drawn a plan and knew nothing of statics.

He bought the Capo Masullo, five kilometers from the center of Capri, at a price of 360 lire (then about 65 Reichsmark ), although there was not allowed to be built. But his relations with Mussolini's son- he received a building permit. It was built in the years 1938 1940.

Guests at the Villa Malaparte were Jean Cocteau, Alberto Moravia, Albert Camus and the Communist leader Togliatti.

According to one anecdote to Erwin Rommel, when he was in the house for a visit, have questioned whether the householder have designed it himself - which was true. This quick-witted but I replied that he had already bought so the house, but the surrounding area - so the scenic Gulf of Naples and the romantic beauty of Capri - he himself had created.

After a trip to China fell ill Malaparte cancer, flew to Rome, became a member of the Communist Party and joined to the Catholic faith. Then he left shortly before his death, the villa of the Communist Youth of the People's Republic of China, which led to a protracted litigation.

Currently, the Villa Malaparte by Ralph Jentsch, executor of George Grosz and editor of a new edition of Malaparte's works, inhabited.

June 9, 1998 on the 100th anniversary Malaparte the dilapidated house has been restored and tightens the curious from around the world and fashion photographers to. Karl Lagerfeld photographed an entire book about the house. Furthermore, the villa served as a backdrop for Jean -Luc Godard's film Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963).

Architecture

The architecture of Adalberto Libera, catches the eye by their red paint from a distance, was made famous by Godard's film Contempt with Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot - the calculation of the incident light, the axes and lines of flight is considered to be just as spectacular as the dangerous stairs which leads to a railing loose roof terrace. There is a curved visual barrier that resists the gaze of curious walkers. The red house itself stands on an inaccessible cliff high above the sea. The flat roof itself is large enough that the landlord here could ride a bicycle.

Inside a living room together with an area of ​​one hundred square meters the center. Before the house is a terrace to which one goes via a staircase from the ground floor down and comes down from the one after about 100 steps to the sea or to go towards the gate to get to Capri town. The windows are asymmetrically distributed over the facade, so that they allow the most productive views. There is also a library in the house, a bedroom for the master of the house, one each for his favorite, a chamber for the maid and an apartment with four rooms for guests.