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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 63 pages
Poids : 406 g
Dimensions : 25cm X 26cm
ISBN : 978-2-7577-0664-0
EAN : 9782757706640

Villa Kérylos

en anglais

De Adrien Goetz,

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Paru le 14/08/2019

Broché 63 pages

foreword Xavier Darcos

translator Richard Stephenson

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Villa Kerylos

A tribute to Classical Greece, Villa Kerylos was designed and built between 1902 and 1908 on a small headland in the Baie des Fourmis in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Far from being a pastiche, for Théodore Reinach, the client, and Emmanuel Pontremoli, the architect, the aim was to create an original work combining the subtlety of classical Greek luxury with the modern comforts of a Belle Epoque villa.

This abundantly illustrated volume examines the history of this unique creation and offers the reader a glimpse of the variety and refinement of its décor.

Biographie

Adrien Goetz is a writer and art historian and a member of the Institut de France. He lectures at the Sorbonne and writes for several art publications and French daily Le Figaro. He is editor-in-chief of Grande Galerie, the magazine published by the Louvre museum.
He has written several novels, including La Dormeuse de Naples (2004), which won the Deux Magots and Roger Nimier literary prizes, and Intrigue a l'anglaisev(2007), winner of the Arsène Lupin crime writing award in 2008. His Le Coiffeur de Chateaubriand (2010) won the Grand Prix Palatine award for historical fiction in 2010. Another of his novels, Villa Kérylos (2017), is set in the former home of Théodore Reinach in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
In 2007 Adrien Goetz was awarded the François-Victor Noury prize by the Académie Française. He was elected to the Institut's Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2017.