Casa Malaparte
Casa Malaparte

Author: Karl Lagerfeld

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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"A house like me, " were the words poet Curzio Malaparte used to describe his villa on Capri. There are only a few buildings which illustrate antique beauty and mystical charm like Casa Malaparte. In this book, Karl Lagerfeld has photographed this most elegiac of structures. Lagerfeld worked for five days in November 1997 to produce these photographs of architecture and nature. He used a special technique to reproduce his pictures -- Polaroid transfers on a particular paper. The results are stunning. The first part of the book shows the perfect integration of the house into the environment, and the second part documents the interior decoration and furniture of the house.

Malaparte
Malaparte

Author: Michael McDonough

Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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With a foreword by Tom Wolfe, this is a stunning work on Casa Malaparte, one of the world's most famous and controversial houses -- admired, imitated, and celebrated for over fifty years.Beautiful yet enigmatic, Casa Malaparte has stood for nearly 50 years atop a limestone cliff on the Isle of Capri. The vision of its singular architectural form against the breathtaking backdrop of the Mediterranean has been likened to "the sudden recovery of a lost dream." Built between the years 1938-40 by Curzio Malaparte, a controversial and strongly political Italian novelist, playwright, and filmmaker, Casa Malaparte is a timeless reminder of one man's vision -- visually arresting and stylistically uncategorizable (much like this book).With a foreword by Tom Wolfe, Malaparte: A House Like Me is organized and edited by noted architect, designer, and writer Michael McDonough, and brings together the combined efforts of artists, historians, architects, and writers to unlock the meanings and mysteries behind Casa Malaparte. Provocative essays, sketches, and speculative projects by, among others, Phillip Lopate, Robert Venturi, Carla Fendi, Kar

Woman Like Me
Woman Like Me

Author: Curzio Malaparte

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1905237847

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Employing a short story format which finds an autobiographical thread, this book links together disparate times and loves in the author's life, a reassertion and reassembly of his identity in literary format. It presents an account of the author's memories, dreams and desires.

Casa Malaparte
Casa Malaparte

Author: Marida Talamona

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.

Sex and Vanity
Sex and Vanity

Author: Kevin Kwan

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0385546289

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • The author of the international phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes us from Capri to NYC, where a young woman finds herself torn between two men—and two very different cultures. "Another riveting tale of privilege, culture and romance ... extravagant fashion and deceit, resulting in one truly modern love story." —CNN On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and, ultimately, herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world—and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.

A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings
A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings

Author: Dan Cruickshank

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0007575599

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Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings

Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781614286325

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Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.

Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

Author: Phillip Lopate

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1998-10-20

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0385492502

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Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone who loves movies.