Maureen Emerson

Riviera Dreaming

Love and War on the Côte d'Azur. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 13,5 cm / 2,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 272 Seiten
EAN 9780755660469
Veröffentlicht März 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury USA
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The stories behind the most glamorous houses on the French Riviera. 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.

Portrait

Maureen Emerson lived in Provence for 20 years, where she worked as a local co-ordinator for CBS and NBC at media festivals in Cannes. During her years in Provence, Maureen became enthralled with the stories of those expatriates who lived on the Riviera in the 1920s and 1930s and how World War II affected their lives. Her first book on the Riviera, Escape to Provence, was published in 2008.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations 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

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