In 1938, the Italian filmmaker, writer, and public intellectual Kurt Erich Suckert—best known by his pseudonym Curzio Malaparte—was arrested for neither the first nor the last time. Once called “the strongest pen of fascism,” Malaparte was a staunch supporter of Benito Mussolini and the fascist movement. His off-and-on adherence to the party line resulted in multiple arrests, which he served not in a cell but at Casa Malaparte, a meticulously designed house in Capri. Inspired by the austerity of both classical architecture and modernism, he built a sculptural space (see the trapezoidal staircase) that he completed with simple but refined furniture. (The house later became the set for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 masterpiece Contempt). Re-creations of Malaparte’s furniture—from slab-cut tables to marble benches—along with Malaparte’s notes and sketches, come to Gagosian. —Jensen Davis