La Pausa
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La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, and o
Coco Chanel and the Duke of Westminster
The Great Hall of La Pausa as reconstructed at the Dallas Museum of Art
A box of paints used by Winston Churchill at La Pausa
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot, 1900–06
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster,, was a British landowner who supported Nazi ideology and had an affair with French designer Coco Chanel.
La Pausa
…built less than a year later. The final cost of the villa was 6 million francs, a large sum for the time. It is not clear whether Chanel or her lover, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster financed the building and furnishing of La Pausa. La Pausa was built by architect Robert Streitz, who sought to build 'the ideal Mediterranean villa…
The Duke in the early 1900s
The Duke of Westminster
The Duke c. 1900
The 2nd Duke's portrait bust at St Mary's Church, Eccleston