Villa El Djézaïr, Neo-Moorish villa in Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France

Villa El Djézaïr is a white stucco Neo-Moorish villa on the beach at Juan-les-Pins. A square tower with a crenellated parapet and small arched windows rises above a lower wing, whose flat-roofed bay window has three tall arched openings between columns. The larger facade is topped by a dome and crenellations, with two large arched windows on iron balconies. A low iron fence runs along the base.

Villa El Djézaïr was built in 1921-1922 for Camille Chrétien to designs by the Cannes architect Ernest Truch, in a neo-Moorish style already out of fashion at the time. Chrétien named it El Djézaïr, the Arabic name for Algeria, recalling his stays there. In 1936 Dr Héry, a Swiss from Zurich, bought it and added an east wing. It was listed as a monument historique on 1 September 1999.

The name El Djézaïr is the Arabic name for Algeria, chosen by Camille Chrétien as a reminder of his stays there. The design draws on Orientalist references: a minaret-like tower, a loggia with horseshoe arches, and mashrabiya screens. In the dining room, a dome on pendentives carries arabesque decoration.

The villa stands at 1, boulevard Charles-Guillaumont in Antibes, on the Juan-les-Pins beachfront, between the railway line and the seafront road opened after 1945. It is a listed monument historique, inscribed on 1 September 1999, so the building is seen from outside; the exotic-planted garden belongs to the property.

The villa's name, El Djézaïr, is the Arabic name for Algeria, chosen by Camille Chrétien as a reminder of his stays in the country. The building was listed as a monument historique on 1 September 1999 and also carries the Patrimoine du XXe siècle label.