Villa Domergue
Tuscan-style painter's villa with terraced gardens of basins and cascading water above the bay.
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This guide to Villa Domergue in Cannes follows the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a fixture of Paris high society who built himself a Tuscan-style house at the foot of the Californie hill. It touches his nights at the Paris Opera, his claim to have invented the pin-up, and the terraced water garden shaped by his wife Odette, a sculptor. Best heard at the top of the terraces, where you can hear the water below.
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