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Riviera dreaming : love and war on the Côte d'Azur

Emerson, Maureen, author

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Subject: Dierks, Barry. / Sawyer, Eric. / Expatriate architects France Riviera Biography. / Architects United States Biography. / Architecture, Domestic France Riviera 20th century. / World War, 1939-1945 France Riviera History. / Riviera (France) Social life and customs 20th century. / Riviera (France) History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781788311625, 1788311620

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DC608.45.E44 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE