French Riviera: The 20s and 30sThe French Riviera is a twentieth century phenomenon, going from rural poverty to the heights of luxury through the century, roughly in parallel with the growth of the movie business. During the 1920s and 30s the Cote d'Azur, the strip of Mediterranean coastline that stretches 100 miles from the port of Toulon to the Italian border, was the fashionable meeting place for high society. At the same time, an architecture developed that was both thoroughly modern in its embrace of the healing power of sunshine, and neoclassical in its fascination with the splendor of ornament. Architects such as Pierre Chareau, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Robert Mallet-Stevens and Eileen Gray built villas, hotels, palaces and casinos as well as prestigious public buildings. This book celebrates the architecture of the period, and includes the Villa Noailles, Latitude 43 at St-Tropez, the Hotels Majestic and Martinez in Cannes and Eileen Gray's famous E-1027 villa at Roquebrune and less familiar Tempe a Pailla on theItalian border. |
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Introduction | 7 |
From Hyères to Théoule the Var Coast | 13 |
From Cannes to SaintLaurentduVar | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Albert FLAMENT Alpes-Maritimes arcades architect architecture Art Deco balconies Beauvallon Beaux-Arts Belles Rives boulevard building built Cannes casino Charles coast concrete construction Corbusier creation Croisette curves d'Azur Dalmas decorative designed Eileen Gray elegant ensemble entrance esthetic facade facing the sea famous Ferdinand Bac Frank Jay Gould French Riviera gardens Georges Dikansky Georges-Henri Pingusson Gloria Mansions Guillaume Tronchet horizontal Hovnanian Hyères inspiration interior interwar period Jacques Jean-Jacques Mecatti Juan-les-Pins Kevork Arsenian Latitude 43 Le Corbusier Léon Le Bel Lérins islands luxury Mallet-Stevens Marcel Marie Palace masterpiece Mediterranean Méditerranée Menton modernity monumental Musée neo-Provençal Nice Noailles villa Observatoire Palace Opposite original Palais Paris Parisian pergola Pierre Chareau prestigious private coll Promenade Provençal Rayol Rayollet realized René Liviéri residence resort Roger Seassal Romée villa rotunda Saint-Raphaël Saint-Tropez Sainte-Maxime seaside staircase stairway style Tempe a Pailla Thiers post office urban vertical walls wrought ironwork