Riviera Dreaming

ISBN: 9781838606374 出版年：2018 页码：265 Maureen Emerson Bloomsbury Publishing

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 masterpieon the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterraneait Le Trident. From the moment it was built, it captivated the Riviera. As commissions fflooded 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 tKhan and Rita Hayworth. Riviera Dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventurout behind the walls of these glamorous houses and provides an unparalleled portrait Cote d'Azur at the height of the Jazz Age.