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Hyères-les-palmiers, 1850-1930, architecture.
MONCORGER Thibault.

Hyères-les-palmiers, 1850-1930, architecture.

AAM editions
€350,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25746
Format 24 x 22
Détails 256 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover with dust jacket.
Publication Brussels, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782871434023
From the 19th century onwards, the mild climate attracted the English aristocracy to Hyères, which then transformed into a winter resort. Eclectic, neo-Moorish and Art Nouveau villas, hotels, a casino, and even sanatoriums accompanied the boom in tourism coupled with a glittering social life. At the end of the Great War, writers and artists took over from winter residents, such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who corrected the manuscript of The Great Gatsby there, or Edith Wharton, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Architecture and applied arts were not left behind: Art Deco reigned, and Robert Mallet-Stevens, along with many other artists, created a house for the Noailles family, which welcomed the avant-garde, and where Man Ray filmed The Mysteries of the Château de Dé. Today, it is a mecca for fashion and design. The Golden Islands, a former haunt of bandits, contribute to the beauty of the Var landscapes, particularly the Ile du Levant which saw the advent of naturism from the beginning of the 1930s.
From the 19th century onwards, the mild climate attracted the English aristocracy to Hyères, which then transformed into a winter resort. Eclectic, neo-Moorish and Art Nouveau villas, hotels, a casino, and even sanatoriums accompanied the boom in tourism coupled with a glittering social life. At the end of the Great War, writers and artists took over from winter residents, such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who corrected the manuscript of The Great Gatsby there, or Edith Wharton, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Architecture and applied arts were not left behind: Art Deco reigned, and Robert Mallet-Stevens, along with many other artists, created a house for the Noailles family, which welcomed the avant-garde, and where Man Ray filmed The Mysteries of the Château de Dé. Today, it is a mecca for fashion and design. The Golden Islands, a former haunt of bandits, contribute to the beauty of the Var landscapes, particularly the Ile du Levant which saw the advent of naturism from the beginning of the 1930s.