Riviera dreaming
Subtitle: love and war on the Côte d'Azur
By: Maureen Emerson
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781788311625; 9781786723383; 9781786733382
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Expatriate architects; Biography; Architects; Domestic Architecture; World War, 1939-1945; History; Social life and customs
Other titles: Love and war on the Côte d'Azur
Description: "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 Riviera society. 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 Château de l'Horizon, later the home of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Lights and music; title: Part Two: All change.