I am not going to Capri anytime soon yet after architect Amanda Levete listed Casa Malaparte in today's How to Spend It as an unforgettable place, I had to check it.
Wikipedia describes Casa Malaparte on "Punta Massullo, on eastern side" of the island as sitting "on a dangerous cliff 32 meters above the sea overlooking the Gulf of Salerno. Access to this private property is either by foot from the Town of Capri or by boat and a staircase cut into the cliff" and notes that"Casa Malaparte was abandoned and neglected after the death of Curzio Malaparte in 1957. It suffered both from vandalism and natural elements for many years and was seriously damaged, including the desecration of a beautiful tiled stove, before the first serious renovation started in the late 1980s and early 1990s."
How many writers are known to have built their own house as Malaparte did in this case with the help of a local stonemason?
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(* image of Casa Malaparte from the pages of Bluntie 'happy cats, happy buildings, so they claim)