The stories behind the most glamorous houses on the French Riviera.In 1926 Barry Dierks a
young American architect arrived in Paris and fell in love with France. With his partner an
ex-officer in the British Army he built a white flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested
on the rocks below the Esterel with views across the Mediterranean. They called it Le
Trident.From the moment it was built it captivated the Riviera. As commissions for more villas
flooded in Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer 'those two charmers' flourished at the heart of
Riviera society. Over the years Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera's most
recognisable villas for clients ranging from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque and Jack
Warner's Villa Aujourd'hui to the Marquess of Cholmondeley's Villa Le Roc and Maxine Elliott's
Chateau de l'Horizon later the home of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth. Riviera Dreaming tells the
dazzling story of the lives loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these
glamorous houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the Cote d'Azur at the height
of the Jazz Age.
