Architecture

Le Provençal

Hôtel Provençal, also known as Le Provençal, is a former luxury hotel in Juan-les-Pins, in the commune of Antibes, on the French Riviera. Built in 1927 for the American businessman Frank Jay Gould and designed by the Cannes architect Lucien Stable, it was conceived as a modern palace hotel facing the sea, intended to keep wealthy visitors in the centre of the resort rather than at the established palace hotels of Cap d'Antibes. The hotel became one of the best-known buildings associated with the interwar rise of Juan-les-Pins as a fashionable resort. Later cultural histories associate it with guests including Winston Churchill, Lilian Harvey, Charlie Chaplin and Miles Davis. During the post-war period, it also formed part of the cultural setting of Jazz à Juan, including Duke Ellington's circle during the 1966 festival.

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• ▸Detroit Masonic Temple
• ▸Kangxi Emperor
• ▸Haus zur goldenen Waage

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