Bring Your Architect! Norman Foster Cap Ferrat Villa

The house on Cap Ferrat Norman Foster designed for himself is for sale for EUR29.5 million, is the headline, but very much not the story here. Foster gut renovated a 1950s house on Av. de la Corniche, between the Four Seasons and the Mediterranean, in 2000, clearing out the stone and masonry shell, and filling it with an atrium living space of steel and glass, and a Richard Long installation of mud. For reference, the Long is 17 m tall, and the atrium is 21m, I think. Architecture Viva has a list of credits for all the contractors you’ll need to re-engage The massive brise soleil opens, and the wall of windows, too. It looks absolutely sprawling, but the whole thing is only 480 sq m, with a four bedroom plinth level underneath, and service spaces and apartments along the side and back. 2000 photo of Foster’s house, la Voile, Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, by Nigel Young for FP, via Oh, historic image, you say? Rooftop pool and voiles at la Voile, no date, via Savills Besides the atrium, the…