Salvador Dalí’s eccentric house in Catalonia’s Costa Brava is the subject of ‘Casa Dalí’, a new book published by Apartamento with photographs by Coco Capitán and testimonials by Spanish architect Òscar Tusquets, who collaborated with Dalí.

Dali bought it in the 1930s, a small fishing hut in the Mediterranean village of Portlligat, and with his wife, Gala, worked on the building over the following decades to redesign and expand its compact structure, incorporating several adjacent huts into the house.

He described the house as “a real biological structure […]. Each new pulse in our life had its own new cell, its own room.” Since the artist’s death in 1989, the house has been preserved by the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, which operates the site as a museum, preserving the interiors and grounds as the artist left them.

The house is built as a maze, with narrow corridors and level changes throughout, as well as differently shaped windows that look out over Portlligat Bay. “Portlligat is the place of production, the ideal place for my work,” said the artist.

The house is filled with furniture curated by Gala, objects the couple collected throughout their years in that house, and works of art by Dali.

Photography by Coco Capitán