Saul Steinberg’s Beach House

If you travel along the Lungomare Marconi, the seaside road in Alba Adriatica, a beach town in the Abruzzo region of Italy, and go past the Da Lucia bathing suit and souvenir store and the bicycle rental and repair shop and the Amnesia boutique and the Wolf grill-restaurant-pizzeria, you come to Via Giuseppe Mazzini. Turn inland there and walk another 15 minutes or so, you reach the First Lady makeup studio and the Rosati Tappeti carpet store. In the space between the two, set far back from the street and behind an electronic gate, is Via Roma number 66, a pale-yellow three-story condominium building of 13 apartments, taller, wider and more impressive than its neighbors.

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