Even. Casa Malaparte

Some information from Wikipedia:

"Casa Malaparte is a house on Punta Massullo, on the
eastern side of the Isle of Capri, Italy. The house was
conceived around 1937 by architect Adalberto Libera
for Curzio Malaparte. Malaparte actually rejected
Libera's design and built the home himself with the
help of Adolfo Amitrano, a local stone mason.
Casa Malaparte is a red masonry box with reverse
pyramidal stairs leading to the roof patio. On the roof
is a freestanding curving white wall of increasing height.
It sits 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.



The house can be reached by sea, on calm days only, as
the waves are cast upon treacherous rocks and there
has not been an official pier for many years. From the
sea, one must climb 99 steps to reach the house".



"Too much sky, and too much sea for one man alone;
and alas, not enough earth! Yet I already feel that I
love this poor island, as a sailor loves his drifting ship,
dismantled by the storm. Perhaps I also am but a
shipwrecked sailor, clinging to an overturned keel, a
piece of driftwood, a shelf of rock. From the castle
terrace,
I survey the sea...I look over the sea and I feel that I
am contemplating from the height of a tower the piazza
of a provincial town, an admirable scene for the comedy
of which Ulysses is the hero." (Curzio Malaparte)