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A Brief History of the Legendary Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc Leena Kim © Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc The luxurious French Riviera retreat, which reopens post-Covid on June 4, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. In the opening lines of his fourth and final novel, Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes a "large, proud, rose-colored hotel" nestled on the French Riviera between Marseilles and the Italian border and about five miles from Cannes: "Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach. Lately it has become a summer ...

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), a...

A Look Back at 150 Years of Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the Glamorous South of France Hideaway Vogue 2 days ago © Photo: Bruno Ehrs / Courtesy of Flammarion There are few places in the world that have been elevated into the pantheon of Instagram's wanderlust moodboards quite like the swimming pool at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Built into the craggy cliffside, the water appears to blend seamlessly into the ocean below, and holidaymakers—as photographer and frequent hotel fixture Slim Aarons often referred to them—have been known to spend several weeks of the summer season lan...