Malaparte: A House Like Me - Hardcover

McDonough, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609603787 ISBN 13: 9780609603789

Publisher: Crown Publications, 1999

Synopsis

Writers and designers, including Tom Wolfe, Colman Andrews, Phillip Lopate, Philippe Starck, and Doore Sottsass, pay homage to Casa Malaparte on the Isle of Capri

About this title

About the Author:

Award-winning architect and designer Michael McDonough has realized projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has lectured internationally on architecture, design, and art. He was a member of the faculty at New York University from 1978-1981, and a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania and the Casa Malaparte Foundation. He is currently a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he has taught since 1984, and Director of the International Bamboo Design Research Initiative at Rhode Island School of Design.

McDonough has exhibited at such galleries and museums as Grey Art Gallery, Holly Solomon Gallery, the Pacific Design Center, and the Musée du Louvre. His work is in the permanent collection of the Berlin Museum and the Corning Museum, as well as private collections. H

From the Inside Flap:

rte: A House Like Me offers an extraordinary look at Malaparte, the man and the house. Often called the most beautiful house in the world, Casa Malaparte in Capri, Italy, is dramatically sited on a promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.  It was home to Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957), the Italian writer who designed the building. A perpetual enigma, he still confounds nearly all who care to look. Actor, novelist, poet, filmmaker, soldier, playwright, journalist, political figure, prisoner, composer, charmer -- inventor and revealer of truths -- Malaparte associated with Mussolini and Stalin, vilified Hitler, and admired Mao. He was a journalist in London, a collaborator with the Surrealists in Paris, and a war correspondent in Berlin and on the Russian front. "Casa come me," he called the building -- "house like me" -- inviting endless speculation as to what meaning lay within.

Much as Picasso, Breton, Pound, Eliot, and Godard discovered the house

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609603787
• ISBN 13: 9780609603789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 197