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    Mauro Restiffe

    Mar 10, 2020 2 minutes
    Lauren Elkin

    t’s called the “tattooed villa.” On the tip of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, on a peninsula of the French Riviera, sits the Villa Santo Sospir, once the home of the socialite Francine Weisweiller. One evening in 1950, while staying at the house, Jean Cocteau offered to draw the head of Apollo on the wall over the fireplace in the salon. Before long, Cocteau was covering the whole house in mythological frescoes,

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