Marchesa Casati Installation (Villa San Michele, Capri)

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 opens 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. This ongoing and evolving project will also feature contemporary works of different media inspired by the Marchesa.

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See installation brochure below in English and Italian.

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Villa San Michele, Capri, ca. 1920 (Image: Ryersson & Yaccarino/The Casati Archives)

Installation brochure/English (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)

Installation brochure/Italian (Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)

Installation in Progress (Images: Courtesy of Villa San Michele, Capri)