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La Pausa

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La Pausa is a large villa above the village of Roquebrune, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, with views toward Menton and Monaco. It was built in the early 1930s for the fashion designer Coco Chanel, who bought the land in February 1929 and had the house finished within a year, to a design by the architect Robert Streitz that drew on a twelfth century convent and orphanage, with a stone staircase, a cloistered courtyard, and repeated arched windows said to echo the number five of Chanel No. 5. Chanel sold the villa in 1953 to the Hungarian born publisher Emery Reves, whose guests included Winston Churchill in the late 1950s, and Reves's widow Wendy lived there until 2007. Chanel repurchased the property in 2015, and after a restoration by the architect Peter Marino it is now used as a creative retreat for artists and writers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France 2
Completed Year
1930 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. La Pausa (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pausa, lead definition
    La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France.
  • Wikipedia categories
    Category:Houses completed in 1930
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    La Pausa is a large villa above the village of Roquebrune, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, with views toward Menton and Monaco. It was built in the early 1930s for the fashion designer Coco Chanel, who bought the land in February 1929 and had the house finished within a year, to a design by the architect Robert Streitz that drew on a twelfth century convent and orphanage, with a stone staircase, a cloistered courtyard, and repeated arched windows said to echo the number five of Chanel No. 5. Chanel sold the villa in 1953 to the Hungarian born publisher Emery Reves, whose guests included Winston Churchill in the late 1950s, and Reves's widow Wendy lived there until 2007. Chanel repurchased the property in 2015, and after a restoration by the architect Peter Marino it is now used as a creative retreat for artists and writers.
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2. La Pausa (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q15241149, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
    Wikidata item Q15241149, property P131/P17 (location): Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
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Wikidata: La Pausa
Wikidata Q15241149, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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