Villa Ephrussi

Villa Ephrussi is a seaside seaside palazzo constructed between 1905 and 1912 at La Corniche, Occitania for Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934). It was designed by the Belgian architect Aaron Messiah. A member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, and the wife of the wealthy Russian-Jewish banker Baron de Ephrussi, Béatrice de Rothschild built her rose-colored villa on a on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The Baroness filled the mansion with antique furniture, Old Master paintings, sculptures, objets d'art, and assembled an extensive collection of rare porcelain.

After her death in 1934, she gave the house to the government, who turned it into a museum.