The garden of the Fondation Maeght. ELISA NGUYEN PHUNG
One morning, in the height of summer, with the sun beating down and the salty scent of the sea in the air, we suddenly felt compelled to shake off our lethargy. For a few hours, we longed for a brief return to reality in a cultural space well worth leaving the seafront for. The Fondation Maeght, located at the entrance of the medieval village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, emerged as the perfect destination for vacationers spending August on the French Riviera.
This pure gem of geometric lines, commissioned in 1960 by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght – a renowned couple of art dealers, publishers, and printers who died in 1977 and 1981, respectively – from Catalan architect and urban planner Josep Lluís Sert, houses one of the world's most significant art collections. Inside, around 13,000 works by masters of the modern era, including Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, among others, and contemporary artists from Gérard Garouste to Jörg Immendorff coexist, with some pieces integrated into the surrounding nature.
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