tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post7601108183133459450..comments2024-03-30T00:09:27.602+13:00Comments on Not PC: Villa Malaparte - Adalberto Libera and Curzio MalapartePeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-21525683956553794642007-05-03T06:23:00.000+12:002007-05-03T06:23:00.000+12:00Look I agree that the location is magnificent and ...Look I agree that the location is magnificent and that those steps are brilliant. But the house... Cripes it's awful.<BR/><BR/>It looks like a tick stuck on the back of a magnificent horse. I keep thinking back to the coastal house Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design for a coastal-property in San Francisco. It never got built but it's in that book Treasures of Tallisen (sp?).<BR/><BR/>That one looks like it grew out of the bluff it's built on.<BR/><BR/>I think they've wasted the site. Imagine even if they'd built about something ~like~ the Villa Gaeta, (Lake Como, Lombardia, Italy) there instead of that flat-backed red-brick gun-emplacement?<BR/><BR/>http://www.topstudionet.com/fotosito//santabbondio02.jpg <BR/>http://www.corrieredicomo.it/img/VillaLaGaeta.jpg<BR/>http://www.inflayak.com/laghi/foto/lagocomo-villa-small.jpg<BR/>http://images.google.com/imgres?imgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-22408045810343882712007-05-01T12:01:00.000+12:002007-05-01T12:01:00.000+12:00Yeah Robert, but what the fuck would you know. ;^)...Yeah Robert, but what the fuck would you know. ;^)<BR/><BR/>Okay, yeah, the interior sucks. I'll give you that. But just think what OSH would make of those monumental steps!?<BR/><BR/>And don't you see that pre-Homeric primitivism at all? Doesn't do it for you?Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-31916092717249714442007-05-01T10:00:00.000+12:002007-05-01T10:00:00.000+12:00Robert, if they want to do a swap I think I can co...Robert, if they want to do a swap I think I can come up with a way to keep the beer cool and stay off the roof in a wind.<BR/><BR/>I do both now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-75097618020480744062007-05-01T09:15:00.000+12:002007-05-01T09:15:00.000+12:00O/T. Could you consider enabling full text on the ...O/T. Could you consider enabling full text on the comments feed plz?<BR/>Since comments are short anyway it's really annoying.<BR/><BR/>As far as I know it is just a matter of changing the current feed -- http://pc.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default to http://pc.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/fullAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-57346473044996652252007-05-01T07:47:00.000+12:002007-05-01T07:47:00.000+12:00I'm going to stick my neck out and state that this...I'm going to stick my neck out and state that this sucks - especially the interior! <BR/><BR/>http://www.westfordconnection.com/Photos/Italy/malaparte/index.htm<BR/><BR/>Imagine sipping a beer on that roof! On a sunny day, the damn thing would reach boiling point 10 seconds after you took it out of the cooler! On a windy day you'd be lucky not to be blown off the roof. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, I've seen prettier looking coastal forts. Ones that would offer equally stunning open air views for Brigitte Bardot at a lot less risk!<BR/><BR/>e.g. http://www.nps.gov/archive/prsf/coast_defense/third_system/fort_point/ftpoint.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com