French Riviera Luxury Interior Designer

Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors

French Riviera Luxury Interior Designer

The French Riviera — the Côte d'Azur — is the original luxury resort of the modern world: the coastline stretching from the Italian border at Menton through Nice, Antibes, Cannes, and Toulon that has been the summering ground of Europe's aristocracy, artistic intelligentsia, and global elite since the mid-19th century. Cap Ferrat, the peninsula between Nice and Monaco with its Belle Époque villas and private harbors, is among the most expensive real estate markets on earth — properties of under an acre having transacted above €50 million. The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, La Leopolda, and the Villa Santo Sospir define the cultural standard against which all other Riviera properties must be measured.

The Riviera villa is one of the most complex and culturally rich design typologies in the world: the late 19th-century and early 20th-century Belle Époque buildings that define the Riviera's architectural heritage combine Italianate, Moorish, and Classical elements within an exuberant decorative tradition that is specific to the Côte d'Azur and unlike any other regional style in Europe. Renovating these extraordinary buildings requires both deep knowledge of their specific historical character and the creative intelligence to introduce contemporary luxury without destroying the original architectural personality.

Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors brings Kenneth Bordewick to the French Riviera with decades of experience working with the world's most sophisticated architectural heritage. Kenneth's appreciation for the Belle Époque design tradition — its rich material palette, its ornamental exuberance within formal compositional discipline, its specific relationship to the Mediterranean landscape and light — makes him the ideal designer for the Côte d'Azur's most historically significant villas.

For the Riviera's contemporary luxury market — the new villas and pavilions that have been built in recent decades to meet the demand of the international UHNWI community — Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors brings a modernist design sensibility informed by the Riviera's extraordinary design legacy: the spare white architecture of Le Corbusier's Cap Ferrat villas, the ceramic-enriched modernism of Fernand Léger, the playful sophistication of Eileen Gray's E-1027. The Riviera has always been a laboratory for the avant-garde alongside the traditional, and BHLI's design intelligence is equally at home in both registers.

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