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The Riviera II

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“Les Années Folles” II Part 2. What happened on the Riviera in the 1920s? The Cole Porter Connection Cole Porter the American composer and lyricists had a reputation for finding charming and unusual places for his holidays. He was also an old friend of Gerald Murphy from Yale. In the summer of 1922 Cole Porter invited the Murphys down to the Côte d'Azur. These were the days when sunbathing and swimming in the sea, were not the thing to do. “..there was a tiny beach—the Garoupe—only about forty yards long and covered with a bed of seaweed that must have been four feet thick. We dug out a corner of the beach and bathed there and sat in the sun, and we decided that this was where we wanted to be.” - Gerald Murphy The following year they convinced a hotel to stay open during the summer, as normally hotels in the south of France shut the 1. of May. The good life of the Riviera inspired the Murphys to invite their artist friends down from Paris and to buy and renovate a house which they called Villa America, and moved in in the late summer of 1924. Who were these friends and what did they get up to? See part 3 Art: The Devil is in the machine, AI and mixed media

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