The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist by Forgy Mark

Author:Forgy, Mark [Forgy, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

La Falaise

My first exposure to modern architecture in any meaningful way was my introduction to Elmyr’s villa, La Falaise, French for the cliff. It sat atop a saddleback hillside at the edge of a precipice. A paean to radical, early twentieth-century design, it seemed oddly placed in this ancient setting. They called the hill where the house stood, Los Molinos, “the mills.” You could see windmills, perhaps a half dozen, in various states of ruin, reminding one of those formidable foes of Don Quixote in the pages of Cervantes. The remaining foundation of one of these round stone towers just meters from his bedroom terrace was converted to a barbeque pit. Along the spine of the hill was a dirt road, little more than a two-rut goat path. The Romans, who ultimately became the island’s governors after displacing the Carthaginians, said of Ibiza that “it was the right size for man,” meaning that no part of the island was beyond a human’s gait. I have no doubt that for thousands of years every dominant Mediterranean culture trod upon this primitive thoroughfare.

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