Palais Bulles de Pierre Cardin, Bubble-shaped residence in Théoule-sur-Mer, France
Palais Bulles de Pierre Cardin is a residence composed of interconnected dome structures in Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. The complex consists of 29 rooms with curved walls, multiple pools, and viewing terraces spread across a hillside site above the Mediterranean.
Antti Lovag, a Hungarian-born architect, designed the villa in 1975 for industrialist Pierre Bernard; it was built between 1979 and 1984 as the third of his bubble houses. After Bernard died in 1991, couturier Pierre Cardin bought it as a summer residence and enlarged it. It has been listed as a monument historique since 1999, and Odile Decq completed a five-year restoration in 2016.
Pierre Cardin filled the ten suites with works by contemporary artists including Patrice Breteau, Jérôme Tisserand, Daniel You, François Chauvin and Gérard Le Cloarec, and displayed his collection of 1960s and 1970s furniture and design objects there. Since 2017 the house has been rented out for weddings, concerts, conferences and corporate events, with clients ranging from MTV and Canal+ to Lego, Renault, Microsoft and Rolls-Royce. Dior staged a fashion show on the site in 2015.
The property is available exclusively for private events and offers an amphitheater as well as reception spaces with sea views. Public tours are not offered, and the grounds remain private and accessible only through booked functions.
The entire structure avoids straight lines and uses only rounded forms that recall natural cell structures. The window panes were individually curved to fit the continuously vaulted building envelope.
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