Casa Malaparte

By Marida Talamona

It has been called the twentieth century's most beautiful house. Isolated at the tip of a craggy promontory on the Italian island of Capri, Casa Malaparte has captivated modern architects and designers with the graceful power of its lines and the drama of its setting...the stuccoed, Pompeian red box appears to have grown straight out of the rock. Its remoteness adds to its dreamy allure. Its simple shape belies its assertive, sculptural presence."Michael McDonough

This handsome book is the first in-depth examination of the Casa Malaparte. Through original correspondence, plans, and drawings, Marida Talamona uncovers written and graphic evidence attributing the house's design to the client (writer Curzio Malaparte) rather than the architect (Adalberto Libera). The book includes archival and current photographs and new drawings, as well as an introduction by Giorgio Ciucci.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878271393
• ISBN13: 9781878271396
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

casa malaparte

this little book is full of information about the house, architect, and owner. the drawings wonderful, the pictures really sets the house back in the time of Malparte, and the ideas that went behind the house is not hidden in the book.