Le Corbusier had understood Punta Tragara as "a kind of architectural flowering, an emanation of the rock, a filiation of the island, a plant phenomenon". Almost a century later, the "stracasa" wanted by the Lombard engineer Emilio Errico Vismara, overlooking the sea of Capri, with a view of the Fararaglioni, was enriched with new suggestions under the Counts Manfredi, who in 1973 made it the Hotel Punta Tragara and over the years it became a 5-star luxury boutique hotel.
An island within an island that dresses itself up as contemporary thanks to the inspiration of the architect Giorgia Dennerlein and her ability to sew the volumes of this extraordinary architectural work following the suggestion of the landscape. The surrounding nature connects with the structure, informing all the rooms with a view to sustainability. In the large light cutouts the spaces are amplified and the colours and furnishings are accentuated.
The architect's intervention is achieved above all in the integration of pre-existing structural elements with innovative solutions that always have in mind the Capri skyline and the continuous change of the marine scenario under the push of the winds. Giorgia Dennerlein works on rooms and common areas - main staircase and hall - projecting the restyling towards the outside and letting the regenerating magic of the island breathe inside.
Each place is unique and deepens the idea of the deserved exclusive relaxation after a long journey. So whoever arrives at Punta Tragara recovers all the enchantments of the place in a single place, even living within the walls of the exclusive twentieth-century building. The ancient soul of the villa flows into the contemporary through a reasoned and eclectic compositional strategy that combines traditional and contemporary ceramic objects with the Mediterranean fantasies of the wallpapers. Cultured details that tell different stories and eras, that want to be dedicated to those who always live with imagination and a suitcase.
The hall finds inspiration in the rose garden of Countess Manfredi, a figure whose memory, taste and regal hospitality echoes everywhere. The triumph of antique chandeliers and light points, the Hoffman armchairs, the large mirror, the black and white carpet of the 1940s and the mosaic carpet "Bouquet di Rose Bisazza" are proof of this.
At the back of the entrance gallery Bird, the platinum enamelled ceramic sculpture by the Spanish designer Hayon, placed on a pedestal covered with fragments of mirrors, is meant to be the original greeting to the guest and the representation of the joy offered to travellers who choose the Hotel Punta Tragara.