Houses that Love Built. And Destroyed

2022-02-04T20:02:00-05:00

It was beautiful. It was a wreck. It blistered on the rocky hillside: a perfect dome, gray weathered concrete and granite connected by a bridge to an eroded staircase. The day was warm and bright, the interiors were crumbling and stuffy. Some rooms contained odd bits of dusty ’60s Italian modern furniture, bright-green glazed tiles and faded taupe cushions. An Italian paperback copy of Patricia Cornwell’s “Cause of Death” was left on a kitchen countertop.

The death of Monica Vitti on 2 February 2022 has brought up many stories of "the Queen of Italian cinema" whose relationship with Michaelangelo Antonioni gave birth to a dome house known as La Cupola by Italian architect Dante Bini's company Binishell. In this five years old NYT article Leanne Shapton and Niklas Maak look into "The House That Love Built — Before It Was Gone. For Monica Vitti, Eileen Gray, and Frank Lloyd Wright, their homes were the culmination of passionate affairs. And the places they ended."

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Houses that Love Built. And Destroyed