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Step inside the Riviera's most glamorous villas and discover the real lives that shaped the Côte d'Azur's golden age.
In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France. With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterranean. They called it Le Trident.
Le Trident transformed their fortunes. As word spread, commissions poured in from across the Riviera's social world. Dierks and Sawyer designed more than seventy of the coastline's most recognisable houses, including Somerset Maugham's La Mauresque, Jack Warner's Villa Aujourd'hui, Maxine Elliott's Château de l'Horizon, and the Marquess of Cholmondeley's Villa Le Roc.
These villas became stages for Jazz Age decadence, intimate dramas, artistic breakthroughs, and the upheavals of war, revealing a Riviera far richer and stranger than its postcard image.
Bringing together vivid personalities, architectural insight and richly researched history, Riviera Dreaming captures a world where creativity, reinvention and intrigue collided on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Part One – Lights and Music
1. Le Trident – 1925: Barry and Eric
2. La Mauresque – 1926: Somerset Maugham
3. The Glamorous Years
4. The Casa Estella – 1931: Beatrice Mai Cartwright
5. Le Château De L'horizon – 1932: Maxine Elliott
6. Villa La Reine Jeanne – 1933: Paul-Louis Weiller
7. Villa Le Roc – 1934: George Cholmondeley
8. Le Moulin – 1935: Eric Cipriani Dunstan
9. The Villa Aujourd'hui – 1938: Jack Warner
Part Two – All Change
10. Méfiance
11. The American Train – Barry
12. Waiting for Melpomene – Eric
13. La Domaine du Sault – Isabel Pell
14. The Champagne Campaign
15. The Hotel Martinez
16. All Change
Notes
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 06 May 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781838606374 |
| Imprint | Tauris Parke |
| Illustrations | 16 bw and colour in 8pp plates |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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