{"id":8360,"date":"2025-05-23T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivieraedition.com\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:26:40","slug":"gabrielle-chanel-riviera-villa-la-pausa-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rivieraedition.com\/en\/gabrielle-chanel-riviera-villa-la-pausa-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Chanel\u2019s Riviera Villa, La Pausa, Reopens This June"},"content":{"rendered":"

High above the coastline of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera<\/a>, not far from Monaco, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel\u2019s legendary villa, La Pausa<\/strong>, is preparing to re-open its doors.<\/p>\n

After a “meticulous restoration” led by renowned American architect Peter Marino<\/strong>, the estate will open in June 2025\u2014not as a museum or hotel as some had predicted, but as a private residence with a difference. Writers, artists and designers will be invited<\/strong> for residencies, reviving the spirit in which Coco Chanel once hosted artists and visionaries in the past, including Salvador Dali who created 11 of his most epic art pieces during a four-month stay at the villa in 1938, according<\/a> to Chanel.<\/p>\n

The French luxury fashion house, which was founded by Gabrielle Chanel in 1910, announced last week that La Pausa will be a “private home and site for cultural creation, inspiration, and education, continuing Chanel\u2019s commitment to the arts”.<\/p>\n

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Chanel’s La Pausa villa has been restored and will reopen in June 2025. Photo: @AVENUEMONTAIGNEGUIDE<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About La Pausa and Chanel<\/h2>\n

The villa was conceived and designed by Chanel herself (in collaboration with architect Robert Streitz) in 1928. The C\u00f4te d’Azur property provided the fashion designer with a sanctuary away from her busy business and social life in Paris.<\/p>\n

La Pausa became her “beloved second home” (and the design, including a staircase and chapel, was in fact partly inspired by the Aubazine orphanage she lived in as a teenager). According<\/a> to Vogue, the seven-bedroom estate was named after ‘the pause’ (or rest) that Mary Magdalene took nearby, as legend goes, during her journey from Jerusalem after the crucifixion of Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Photo: @AVENUEMONTAIGNEGUIDE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was here at La Pausa where Chanel cultivated “an art of living that balanced elegant relaxation and invigorating freedom”.<\/p>\n

Yana Peel, Chanel’s President of Arts, Culture & Heritage, said on LinkedIn<\/a> that while Chanel was at La Pausa “olive trees were climbed, ideas unfolded around the dinner table, and rugs were rolled up to make way for dancing.” Mornings were spent sleeping in, and afternoons playing tennis, relaxing in hammocks, and wandering into nearby Menton.<\/span><\/p>\n

La Pausa became an “emblem of Chanel\u2019s success and independence”, says Chanel.<\/p>\n

Chanel heritage projects<\/h2>\n

The villa, which had subsequently been sold to an American couple, was purchased by Chanel in 2015. It forms part of the CHANEL Heritage Sites program, dedicated to restoring “places of cultural significance in France in Mademoiselle Chanel\u2019s life”.<\/span><\/p>\n

La Pausa falls under the umbrella of the Chanel Culture Fund led by Peel, according to WWD<\/a>. Other heritage projects include Chanel’s apartment at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris and the Aubazine Abbey.<\/p>\n

“Gabrielle Chanel had a clear vision that La Pausa should be a place for \u2018pause,\u2019 a home of one\u2019s own in which to convene artists and thinkers,” Peel said in a statement<\/a>. She said that for a “roaring decade” La Pausa provided that, and will once again offer that “tranquil yet stimulating environment, free from the distractions and constraints of everyday life” to those who may not have had the freedom or resources to otherwise flourish.<\/p>\n

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