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Zendaya has become the new face of Louis Vuitton, with her first shoot held at Eileen Gray’s famous former home in Roquebrune Cap Martin.  

Transformative modernist architecture, enduring furniture designs in museum collections and still being reproduced, and a "Dragons" armchair that, at $28.3 million, remains the most expensive piece of 20th-century design ever sold at auction, belong to a woman lesser known than her male peers. Notes The Getty: How did the legacy of Irish designer Eileen Gray become obscured?  Gray's architectural masterpiece in France—now carefully restored and a museum open ...

Hollywood producer Frank Mannion dropped in on some of the French Rivieras most prized spots He stayed at Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat and the Monte-Carlo Beach hotel One of his favourite restaurants is Le Grill, on the eighth-floor terrace of the Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo  He also visits Monacos most popular beach and its amazing Oceanographic Museum Here he offers a truly insightful guide to some of the Rivieras most beguiling places to visit  Frank Mannion’s...

Eileen Gray’s renovated E-1027 villa reopens in Côte d’Azur Eileen Gray’s renovated E-1027 villa reopens in Côte d’Azur Eileen Gray’s iconic residence, E-1027, completes extensive renovation and throws open its doors in France’s Côte d’Azur Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, an emblem of modernist architecture by Eileen Gray, has just reopened its doors following extensive restoration works. The two-storey house, which was completed in 1929, is a...