Riviera Dreaming - Love and War on the Cote d'Azur (Hardcover)

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. From the moment it was built, it captivated the Riviera. As commissions for more villas flooded in, Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer, 'those two charmers', flourished at the heart of Riviera society. Over the years, Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera's most recognisable villas for clients ranging from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque and Jack Warner's Villa Aujourd'hui to the Marquess of Cholmondeley's Villa Le Roc, and Maxine Elliott's Chateau de l'Horizon, later the home of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth. Riviera Dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these glamorous houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the Cote d'Azur at the height of the Jazz Age.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Maureen Emerson
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-83860-637-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	1-83860-637-8
Barcode:	9781838606374

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