Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The villa Le Trident is a Modernist villa built by the American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) for himself and his partner, Colonel Eric Sawyer on the pointe de l’Esquillon in Théoule-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes on the French Riviera.
[10] [11] Initial reports on the villa's sale in July 2008 had falsely identified fellow Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as the purchaser. [12] Prokhorov would later deny that he had bought the property, with his spokesperson saying that he had refused to do business in France after his 2007 detention by French police for allegedly providing ...
Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially, the French Riviera is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 foreign residents, [4] although estimates of the number of non-French nationals living in the area are often much higher. [5] Its largest city is Nice, which has a population of 340,017 as ...
It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, [1] and owned by Chanel until 1953. La Pausa was sold by Chanel to the Hungarian publisher Emery Reves . The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent roughly a third of each year at La Pausa from 1956 to 1958 with Reves and his wife, Wendy, and ...
La Fleur du Cap, originally known as Villa Socoglio, is a house on the waterfront in Cap Ferrat, on the French Riviera. The house was built in 1880 as Villa Socoglio by the son of an arms dealer. [1] It was later home to the Duchess of Marlborough, King Leopold III, Charlie Chaplin and David Niven. [1]
French Riviera (8 C, 65 P) R. Royan (2 P) Pages in category "Seaside resorts in France" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total.
The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is a French seaside villa located at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. Designed by the French architect Aaron Messiah , it was built between 1907 and 1912 by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934).
Château Miraval is a château and vineyard located in the village of Correns, just north of Brignoles, a village in the Var département in the south of France.The château hit headlines in late May 2008 when it was revealed that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had leased it for three years with an option to buy, after surveying prospective properties by helicopter, [1] with the intention of ...