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Celebrating the sesquicentennial of one of the most luxurious getaways on Earth. <a class="g1-link g1-link-more" href="http://www.maxim.com.au/archives/16517">More</a> ....
Inside the Hotel du Cap, The South Of Franceâs Legendary Celebrity Getaway âFrom Marlene Dietrich to Madonna, the hotel has [always] been a home away from home for the super-famous.â Author: Slim Aarons, from Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc: A Timeless Legend on the French Riviera, Flammarion, 2021 For a century and a half, the Hotel du Cap, on the southern-most tip of Cap d’Antibes on France’s Côte d’Azur, has been the preferred playground for iconic figures of every decade “from the Belle Époque, through the Jazz Age, the jet age, the 1960s and ’70s, right up to the present.” ....
What Fitzgerald called Gausse’s Hôtel des Étrangers was of course modeled after the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a glittering refuge for the one percent since 1870. For 150 years, the property has served as the sun-kissed home away from home for titans of literature (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), and high society (Russian aristocrats, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson). ....