Casa Malaparte – The owner, author Curzio Malaparte, contributed significantly to Adalberto Libera’s design of this villa which stands on Punta Masullo, Capri. Casa Malaparte has a mythical and resolutely modern look at the same time. The living room windows are framed in dark wood, a feature that transforms the large room into an art gallery – the works on display being the spectacular images of the sea. There is also a fireplace in which the flames are seen against the background of a small opening with a view onto the sea and Capri’s stacks (known as the Faraglioni). An external staircase leads to the terrace: a real open-air room in which the only decorative motif is a white ‘curl’ which has the dual purpose of supporting and shielding the chimney and of protecting the privacy of the house guests. The photographs of Casa Malaparte featured on the website were taken in 1988, before the major restorations that followed. In these photographs we can still feel Malaparte’s presence: there are small wooden bookcases with his books, copies of “Prospettive” (the magazine of which he was the editor), and the furniture and objects are arranged exactly where Malaparte had put them .
