Villa Eilenroc | park, celebrity home, mansion / manor house / villa

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  At the end of Cap d'Antibes, on a beautiful wooded land of 11 hectares, stands the villa Eilenroc, built in the 1860s in terms of the famous architect Charles Garnier, who had built the opera houses of Paris and Monte- Carlo. It's a Dutchman. Mr Hugh Hope Loudon, former governor of the Dutch East Indies, who had acquired this vast area he called the anagram of the name of his wife. Cornelia. In Greco-Roman style, decorated with Corinthian columns and staircases, the villa fitted read a first time at the close of the last century. Mr Hugh Hope Loudon having separated from his wife. left Antibes and put on sale the field, which changed many times since ownership. Succeeded James Wyllie, Scottish philanthropist return from India, where he had lived thirty-five years, Sir Coleridge Kennard, Harris Sudreau, who is seeking a time of Antibes town hall, and finally a wealthy American, Mr Louis Dudley Beaumont , whose widow now lost gave the property to the city for what city did the foundation to accommodate the guests. Eilenroc had changed: LD Beaumont began in fact, from 1927 to 1939, to redecorate the house in the spirit of his time. Not hesitating to call to young contemporary artists whose Art Deco style then in vogue. In addition there established his fine collection (furniture and tables XVIII. Welles Bosworth, renowned architect who was carrying out the restoration of the chateau of Versailles was hired, and the famous designer Willy Baumgarten, whose business at Place Vendome Paris and 5th Avenue in New York knew a worldwide reputation. To them we owe the sumptuous interior of Eilenroc. Unfortunately many paintings and furniture disappeared during the last war of the house of Mrs. Beaumont, which did not return after the death of her husband that very rarely Eilenroc, preferring to settle permanently in Monte Carlo, where she died. In 1982, she donated it to the Antibes villa and 11 acres therein, on condition that the Municipality to restore and maintain the whole, this was done and done well. Thanks to the talent of the craftsmen of Old Antibes, whose expertise is known to all the antique dealers, specialist workshops through the city and the Picasso museum, the reception rooms, libraries, bedrooms and bathrooms regained their luster and brilliance of yesteryear. Note that in December I988, at the Conference of Heads of African States. François Mitterrand. President of the Republic, was the guest of the villa Eilenroc.

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