Credits: ©Mairie de Cannes - Hervé Fabre
Credits: ©Mairie de Cannes - Hervé Fabre
Credits: ©Mairie de Cannes - Hervé Fabre
Credits: ©Mairie de Cannes - Hervé Fabre
Credits: ©Mairie de Cannes - Hervé Fabre
Location type
Environment
Seaside,
Park or garden
General presentation
Built during a period of affluence and inspired by the estates which overlooked Florence, the Villa Domergue sits like a jewel in the Cannes landscape. Through his work, the artist Jean Gabriel Domergue showed his support for the 20th century renewal in decorative arts. Many ceramic and bronze vases, collected by the couple during their travels around the Mediterranean, decorate the flower beds, creating an exceptional and magical environment. In their sumptuous dwelling, Odette and Jean-Gabriel Domergue made Cannes the capital of a particular art of living. The Villa Domergue is open every day from 11am to 7pm in July and August and during the ‘Journées du Patrimoine’ heritage days.
Location Condition Type
Well maintained
Location History
The painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue settled in 1926 in the heart of a pine forest on a slope overlooking the bay of Cannes. There he built a villa called "Fiesole", where he made the first poster of the Cannes Film Festival.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, inventor in 1920 of the "Salon de la mode par les artistes", great provider of parties, balls and sumptuous galas, declared, "I would have liked to be Le Nôtre, to create a living architecture of lawns, rare trees, cut boxwood… and in these gardens, I would have given magnificent shows, extraordinary fireworks...".
It is here, even today, that the jury of the Cannes Film Festival meets to deliberate.
The gardens: set in terraces planted with cypresses, pines and Mediterranean plants, the garden was designed by Mr. Domergue himself. It is adorned with pools and waterfalls directly inspired by the Villa d'Este, near Rome. Its paths are populated with stone and bronze works of the painter’s wife, Odette, who was a sculptor and also designed the wrought iron gate overlooking the terrace.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, inventor in 1920 of the "Salon de la mode par les artistes", great provider of parties, balls and sumptuous galas, declared, "I would have liked to be Le Nôtre, to create a living architecture of lawns, rare trees, cut boxwood… and in these gardens, I would have given magnificent shows, extraordinary fireworks...".
It is here, even today, that the jury of the Cannes Film Festival meets to deliberate.
The gardens: set in terraces planted with cypresses, pines and Mediterranean plants, the garden was designed by Mr. Domergue himself. It is adorned with pools and waterfalls directly inspired by the Villa d'Este, near Rome. Its paths are populated with stone and bronze works of the painter’s wife, Odette, who was a sculptor and also designed the wrought iron gate overlooking the terrace.
Construction period
1931-1940
Dominant style
Art deco,
Art Roman
Specific styles
Covered - Indoor,
Open - Outdoor
Remarkable architectural elements
Stairs,
Terrace (architecture)
Materials
Concrete - Cement - Breezeblock,
Building front : Rubble stone - Millstone,
Interior walls : Stone,
floor : marble,
Interior floor : Marble,
interior floor : Fitted carpet