La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel

(Hardback)

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Discover Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's vacation villa on the French Riviera, where she entertained the leading lights of the French cultural scene in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1928, Gabrielle Chanel built La Pausa, a magnificent villa in Roquebrune in the South of France. Designed and decorated by the couturiere herself, it was her refuge for decades, and where she welcomed many friendsleading artistic, cultural, and high-society figures such as the Duke of Westminster, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dal, and Jean Cocteau.

Plunging the reader into the bustling atmosphere of the Cte d'Azur in the 1930s, this book showcases all facets of her Mediterranean homeits conception and construction, unique architecture and gardens, and the artists and creatives it inspired. The luxurious tome is bound in Orient blue cloth with an inlaid portrait of the villa, seven-color printing on two paper stocks, and three facsimile insertsChanel's correspondence with Picasso and Dal and an architectural plan of the villa. Expert essays and rare archival materials are completed with a conversation between Yana Peel and Peter Marino (who recently restored the villa) and a chronology. Reflecting the creativity and singularity of the iconic fashion designer, La Pausa is a monument to the private world of Gabrielle Chanel.

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Architect Peter Marino, who has collaborated with the French luxury brand [Chanel] for more than three decades, pored over hundreds of archival photographs to recreate the original interiors of La Pausa, the legendary designers home complete with a mirrored bathroom that echoes the Art Deco staircase of her couture salon in Paris.... He details the [restoration] process in La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel, a 350-page coffee table book to be published by Flammarion in French and English in September. Illustrated with 500 exclusive photographs and unpublished archival documents, it captures a golden moment in time between the wars. Womens Wear Daily

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Hlne Fulgence is head of heritages sites, Chanel Arts & Culture.

With texts by Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Laura Bartolom, Philippe Collas and Eric Villedary, Flavia Frigeri, Elisabetta Gaspard, Marc Jeanson, Madeleine Meissirel, Olivier Meslay, and Antide Viand.