Tumult and Order : Malcontenta 1924-1939

By Antonio Foscari, Translated by Lucinda Byatt

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, Diana Cooper, and Le Corbusier. It was an era of inspiring encounters between aristocrats, the avantgarde and intellectuals that ended when Italy entered World War II.

Antonio Foscari recounts this lively period in the building’s history and talks about its then owner, Bertie Landsberg, and his friends Catherine de Rochegude, Baroness of Erlanger, and Paul Rodocanachi.  The text is complemented by numerous photographs dating from this time that convey an impression of the villa’s fascinating history.

Zürich, 2012, 15cm x 24cm, illustrated, 248pp. Hardback.

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