From the 20s ti the second world war, the French Riviera was the fashionable meeting place for international high society. The globalization of myhths and the mystification of the image triumphed there with the first Cannes filma festival. Rudolph Vlentino, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth, as well as Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, Joséphine Baker, Collette, Jean Cocteau, Charles Vanel and Jean Marais, what god in this new cinematographic pantheon was not glorofied by a sojourn on the Riviera? Similarly, in this ideal testing ground, great names in architecture, among whom figure Pierre Chareau, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Eileen Gray and Robert Mallet-Stevens, summarized the tensions, flamboyant successes and pathetic failures of modernity. Thomas Bilanges photographs provide extensive, precise and inviting illustration in harmonious dialogue with the enthusiastic research of authors Charles Bilas and Lucien Rosso, specialists in the history and architecture of the 20s and 30s.