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Villa La Vigie, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Villa la Vigie is a villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Cote d'Azur in southern France. It was built by the British publisher Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet in 1902 and occupied and renovated by the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in the 1980s. Location The house is located on the Pointe de la Veille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. 'La Vigie' means 'the lookout tower' or 'the vigil'. Writing in the ''Chicago Tribune'', Dennis Thim described the house as a "wedding cake confection, which towers several hundred feet above the rock-strewn sand". The house is three storeys in height and faces the Mediterranean Sea on three sides. The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld described the house as being "all about the light" as "It is like an open-air studio with this light that is just sublime". History It was built in 1902 for the British publisher Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet in the Belle Époque style. Ingram owned ''The Illustrated London News'' and ''The Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A villa is a type of house that was originally an Ancient Rome, ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the Early Modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most survivals have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside. Roman Roman villas included: * the ''villa urbana'', a suburban or co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
