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The pool at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, photographed by Slim Aarons in August 1976.
Rock Hudson gets ready for a dip at Eden-Roc.
Seaside fun.
Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn share a mid-match kiss.
The botanical garden at the Hôtel du Cap.
Early-20th-century views of the hotel and grand promenade.
British fashion photographer Cecil Beaton and his sister Nancy at the hotel.
A hotel brochure advertising a winter stay. Until the 1920s, the season along the Côte d’Azur went from September through April.
Top, waterskiing from Eden-Roc; above, from left, film producer Charles Feldman, Jean Howard, Darryl Zanuck, Elsa Maxwell, and Orson Welles outside Zanuck’s hotel cabana.
A drawing by Picasso from the hotel guest book, 1923.
Planted the year of the hotel’s founding, the rose-and-wisteria garden is also turning 150.
The change from winter to summer seasons at the hotel began when the Americans and the English discovered the Riviera. In came Ernest Hemingway, Marlene Dietrich, and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Kennedy family, including John (front row, left) and Robert (front row, second from left), in front of their cabana at the hotel, 1939.
A room with the most spectacular of evening views.
Open Book

Heartbreak Hotel

Photographs from a new book pay homage to the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the dazzling seafront retreat that has played host to Ernest Hemingway, Jane Birkin, and Mick Jagger, on its 150th anniversary

April 17, 2021

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To read Graydon Carter’s introduction to the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc volume, publishing later this month, click here.

Photos from Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc: A Timeless Legend on the French Riviera, Flammarion, 2021.

Drawing: © succession Picasso 2020/© HDCER Archives. Photos: © Slim Aarons/Getty Images (pool, waterskiing); Edward Quinn/© edwardquinn.com (Hudson); © Stephen Mesureur (fun); Simon Michou/Paris Match/Getty Images (kiss); © Bruno Ehrs (gardens, window); © Jean Luce/Bergé-Andreu/Archives Départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (early-20th-century hotel); © HDCER Archives (grand promenade, Beaton, brochures); John Swope/The Life Images Collection/Getty Images (Zanuck’s cabana); © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation (Kennedys).
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April 17, 2021
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April 17, 2021
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