Research Catalog

Title

Riviera dreaming : love and war on the Côte d'Azur / Maureen Emerson.

Author

Emerson, Maureen

Publication

• London : I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xii, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Alternative Title

Love and war on the Côte d'Azur

Subjects

• Architects > United States > Biography
• Sawyer, Eric
• Dierks, Barry
• Expatriate architects > France > Riviera > Biography
• Riviera (France) > History > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > France > Riviera > History
• Riviera (France) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Architecture, Domestic > France > Riviera > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.

Contents

Part One: Lights and music -- Part Two: All change.

ISBN

• 9781788311625
• 1788311620
• 9781786723383 (canceled/invalid)
• 1786723387 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781786733382 (canceled/invalid)
• 1786733382 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

40028263535

OCLC

• ocn999537223
• 999537223
• SCSB-9068053

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries