Marchesa Casati Installation (Villa San Michele, Capri)
- casatiarchives
- Oct 1
- 2 min read
UPDATED! Capri is often referred to as the “Island of Dreams.” And now one extravagant as La Casati herself has come true! In the summer of 1920, the Marchesa sojourned there during which she resided at the Villa San Michele. This resulted in one of the most colorfully outlandish episodes of her entire life. Open to the public since 1950, the Villa San Michele is an important destination for visitors to Capri, one of its interior walls still adorned by the mystical maxim that Luisa had selected so carefully: “Oser. Vouloir. Savoir. Se taire” (To dare. To want. To know. To be silence itself.). On August 21, 2025, one hundred and five years after Luisa’s first visit there, the Villa San Michele in collaboration with The Casati Archives opened the Marchesa Casati Installation pavilion within in its gardens. For it, artworks and photographs of Luisa have been reproduced upon the structure’s glass windowpanes. Under the guidance of Kristina Kappelin, Director of the Villa San Michele, the installation curators are Anna Bergman Jurell, who produced the scenography, and Nils Harning, who constructed Casati-inspired dolls on view. This ongoing and evolving project will feature other contemporary works of different media inspired by the Marchesa as well.
The installation is dedicated to Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino, biographers of the Marchesa Casati and Directors of The Casati Archives.
The official biography of the Marchesa Casati Infinite Variety is available at The Museum Shop (English, Italian & Swedish-language editions): Villa San Michele - The Museum Shop
Please refer back to this post as well as the official Marchesa Casati site and
the Official Marchesa Casati Facebook page for further updates.
Official Villa San Michele site: Villa San Michele
Learn more here:
Visit the official Villa San Michele Facebook page for additional media coverage
See related article (in English) in Italy Segreta
See related article (in Italian) in Vanity Fair (Italia)
See installation-related items below.
Installation brochure/English (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
Installation brochure/Italian (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
"The Marchesa Casati Returns to Capri: Art, Myth, and Memory"
(article from Capri Arte/Italian and English)
Villa San Michele, Capri, ca. 1920 (Image: Ryersson & Yaccarino/The Casati Archives)
Private Bar Buzz Installation Announcement Event on May 22, 2025, in Stockholm
(Image: Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
Installation Opening Invitation (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
Installation (Images: Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
Installation Opening Events (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)
