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Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc hosts its annual Red Cross Gala

Saint Laurent is launching its first fine jewelry collection.In partnership with the Red Cross of Antibes, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc hosts the Red Cross Gala every year.

 


The Cap-Eden-Roc, the legendary hotel on the French Riviera, was born of the desire of one man – Hippolyte de Villemessant, then owner of Le Figaro – to create an artists’ retreat on the Côte d’Azur. To do so, he chose Cap d’Antibes, a peninsula located between Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, and laid the first stone of his Villa Soleil in 1865. This elegant Napoleon III-style building, with symmetrical wings flanking the entrance and a huge staircase, opened five years later. Offering an unbeatable view over the Mediterranean and the Lérin Islands, it was the perfect spot to rekindle your creative spark! However, the establishment went bankrupt a few months after it opened due to the Franco-Prussian War.




From an artists’ residence to a luxury hotel

In 1877, a young hotelier from the Piedmont region, Antoine Sella, bought the property to turn it into a luxury hotel. It was inaugurated in 1889 under the name of Grand Hôtel du Cap. In the 19th century, the hotel season on the Riviera stretched from September to May, but in summer French high society took up residence on the Atlantic Coast. To attract a summer clientele, Sella would bank on luxury and excess. He had a superb seawater swimming pool sculpted into the rock of Cap d’Antibes, which would quickly become one of the jewels of the Côte d’Azur! Success was on the cards. Celebrities such as Picasso, Chaplin, Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich, to name just a few, flocked to it. But war very soon broke out again. Commandeered by the American Red Cross, the hotel was converted into a convalescent home during the First World War.

The golden age of the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc

At the end of the war, it was the time of the Roaring Twenties, which marked Cap-Eden-Roc’s heyday. The Americans and British discovered the Côte d’Azur and the luxury hotel saw the arrival of a new clientele. In the 1930s, the reputation of the hotel, which inspired Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s setting for Tender is the Night, was firmly established. Monarchs, aristocrats, politicians and artists all flocked to the Cap-Eden-Roc. Keen to offer the best to his guests, Antoine Sella had cabanas overlooking the sea built. The Kennedy family would stay there in 1939. The painter Marc Chagall also went there to draw inspiration in the shade of the century-old pines, just like Picasso, who even illustrated the restaurant menu.

The Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc was celebrating its 70th birthday when the Second World War broke out. It would subsequently be occupied by the Germans and bombarded during the landings.

The official hotel of the Cannes Film Festival

Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

  • Address : 167-165 boulevard J. F. Kennedy

  • City : Antibes

  • Country : France

  • Nearest airport : Nice-Côte d’Azur


1946 marked the beginning of the Cannes Film Festival and a prestigious evening event was organised at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Guests included Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Douglas Fairbanks. From then on, the luxury hotel’s history would be closely linked to the Film Festival. The hotel changed hands in the 1960s. Rudolf and Maja Oetker, a couple of German industrialists, fell in love with the place when they were sailing off the coast of Cap d’Antibes. They bought the property without even setting foot in it! In 1987, it became the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc as it is today. It is still frequented by stars: Madonna books suite 644 every year, while Sharon Stone, Robert de Niro and Gérard Depardieu are regulars. And since 2009, the most glamorous event at the Cannes Film Festival – the amfAR gala – has been held at this legendary address.

This luxury hotel’s secret of success? The splendour of the premises undoubtedly counts, but its reputation is primarily down to the impeccable service and the total devotion of the staff. Everything is possible at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc…

167-165 boulevard J. F. Kennedy 06605 Antibes +33 (0)4 92 93 32 00 www.oetkercollection.com Open from mid-April to mid-October


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