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Entrepreneur, art collector, snapshot photographer, and streetwear designer Jean Pigozzi lives large at Villa Dorane, Pigozzi’s residence/playground in the Cap d’Antibes.
The villa is a testament to his long-term collaboration with late Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, who played a significant role in the design of Pigozzi’s seven homes. He inherited the house, built in 1953 by neo-classical architect Tomaso Buzzi, from his father Henri–who founded Simca cars–but it was postmodernist Sottsass who “pimped it out.”
Villa Dorane attracts a steady stream of “friends, venture capitalists and pretty girls” and Pigozzi’s annual Festival de Cannes party is the stuff of legend. “My main idol in life is Howard Hughes,” he says. “I like how he lived all alone with airplanes and girls, but on the other hand I’m a social animal.”
Read Living Large Is The Best Revenge at Vanity Fair about Jean Pigozzi.
Entrepreneur, art collector, snapshot photographer, and streetwear designer Jean Pigozzi lives large at Villa Dorane, Pigozzi’s residence/playground in the Cap d’Antibes.
The villa is a testament to his long-term collaboration with late Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass, who played a significant role in the design of Pigozzi’s seven homes. He inherited the house, built in 1953 by neo-classical architect Tomaso Buzzi, from his father Henri–who founded Simca cars–but it was postmodernist Sottsass who “pimped it out.”
Villa Dorane attracts a steady stream of “friends, venture capitalists and pretty girls” and Pigozzi’s annual Festival de Cannes party is the stuff of legend. “My main idol in life is Howard Hughes,” he says. “I like how he lived all alone with airplanes and girls, but on the other hand I’m a social animal.”
Read Living Large Is The Best Revenge at Vanity Fair about Jean Pigozzi.