Designed by an anonymous protege of Jean Nouvel, the 2011 iteration of Villa Vevrier rejected the ostentatious palazzos of its neighbors in favor of a "living prism." The structure uses low-iron glass and raw basalt stone to reflect the sky and sea, making the villa appear to dissolve at sunset.
The summer of 2011 was the last honest season at Villa Vevrier. Before the money moved in permanently. Before the hedges grew wild and the salt spray began to pit the terrace ironwork. Villa Vevrier -2011-
Back then, the villa still smelled of lemon rinds and old paper. The original owner, a retired librettist who had bought the place in 1985, still lived in the eastern wing. He would sit on the cracked marble steps at dusk, listening to Maria Callas on a portable CD player, watching the yachts blink in the distance. Designed by an anonymous protege of Jean Nouvel,