Villa Kérylos – Luxury Villa Photography on the French Riviera
Where the Mediterranean spreads its wings, Théodore Reinach dreamt a Hellenic vision. And like a swallow soaring toward the sky, Villa Kérylos opens its embrace to the sea.
Rooted in marble and bathed in light, it seems to drift between two worlds: the timeless Greece of myth, and the radiant French Riviera.
The Vestibule
Crossing the threshold, the visitor enters a vast vestibule, solemn as the gateway to a temple. Columns of white veined marble rise in perfect symmetry, while frescoes unfurl their mythological stories across the walls. Mosaics, intricate and luminous, set a dialogue between shadow and light, between Greek eternity and Mediterranean sun. Here, the journey begins.
The Inner Courtyard
Step by step, harmony takes form in the inner courtyard, the beating heart of the villa. Surrounded by marble colonnades, its geometry flows with the rhythm of a mythological mosaic. Light cascades here like a golden nectar, unique to the Côte d’Azur. This courtyard, echoing an ancient peristyle, connects every room of the ground floor. The scent of the sea drifts into the stone, and in the distance, a sail often cuts the horizon. On days of wind, the sound of the waves transforms the villa into a ship braving the swell.
The inner courtyard bathed in the sunshine of the South of France
The Ground Floor
The ground-floor rooms open directly to the Mediterranean, dressed each day in the ever-shifting blue of the waves. Here once stood the reception halls, places of knowledge and exchange, where Théodore Reinach gathered intellectuals, musicians, and scholars. Yet beneath the timeless façade of antiquity lay modern innovation: central heating, discreet electricity, ingenious plumbing. Beneath mosaics and Doric columns ran the unseen networks of a refined, avant-garde comfort. In this way, the villa united Greek genius with industrial progress, bridging Antiquity and the dawning 20th century.
The Upper Floor
Ascending the staircase leads to the intimacy of the upper floor. The chambers open onto the sea, each view bathed in blue and white, like a living fresco. Here unfolded family life: the laughter of children, the echoes of Greece, a library filled with ancient wisdom. More than a residence, the villa was a sanctuary, a luminous jewel, where Reinach’s dreams intertwined with the quiet realities of home.
The mosaics of Villa Kerylos
The Garden and the Sea
Finally, the path leads outward to the garden, open to the infinite horizon. The peristyle extends into the light, and one can almost hear conversations carried away by the sea breeze. In this theater of stone and sky, Villa Kérylos is more than a dwelling: it is an inspiration offered to light, an ode to Greek genius transplanted to the Riviera, and an eternal hymn to the pleasures of the Mediterranean.
