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Villa Aujourd'hui, Modern architecture villa on Cap d'Antibes, France.

Villa Aujourd'hui is a Modernist villa built in 1938 by American architect Barry Dierks for Palm Beach socialite Audrey Chadwick on a narrow plot at Cap d'Antibes. Its white two-storey facades with rectangular windows rise behind tall trees above a rocky shore. Dierks gave it a bold undulating entrance facade and semi-circular drive, with a basement-level garage; inside, a cross-vestibule holds a free-standing spiral staircase with a white-enamelled banister on Venetian glass balusters, lit by an arched painted skylight signed "V. L."

Barry Dierks built Villa Aujourd'hui in 1938 for Palm Beach socialite Audrey Chadwick, who named it after her Florida home. It replaced a modest structure called the Bungalow and was among the last Modernist villas built on the Riviera before World War II. Around 1950, Jack L. Warner bought it and hosted Charlie Chaplin and Ava Gardner.

Audrey Chadwick named the villa Today after her home in Palm Beach, Florida. Around 1950 it passed to the Hollywood producer Jack L. Warner, and Charlie Chaplin and Ava Gardner were received there. The salon's large carpet, woven in Cogolin to a design by Roger-Henri Expert and Pierre Patout for the French pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, was laid in 1948 and is no longer in place.

Villa Aujourd'hui is a private residence on Cap d'Antibes, not open to visitors; it is seen from the public road and the shore below. The narrow plot, which Dierks compared to the size of a grand piano, holds a two-storey house with a basement-level garage and a semi-circular drive. The terraces line the shore to the west.

The salon's large carpet was designed by Roger-Henri Expert and Pierre Patout and woven in Cogolin for the French Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It was laid in the salon in 1948 and is no longer in place.

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