SHS Speaker Series – Madeleine Deschamps: The History of the Cote d’ Azur – Myth and Reality

The Creation of la Côte d’Azur
Culture and Society in the first part of the Twentieth Century

How the South Eastern coast of France became myth and reality as the French Riviera.

An illustrated lecture by Madeleine Deschamps, PhD

Madeleine Deschamps is an interior designer with specialties in high end residences and hospitality, and an art historian specializing in the Decorative Arts and in Art Crafts, Métiers
d’art.

She was for over eight years Senior Designer with Peter Marino Architects in New York,  then Senior Designer and Head
of the Materials and Finishes department at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York.