On the final day of Paris Fashion Week this past March, I went to Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a village just east of Monaco on the Côte d’Azur, to visit La Pausa, the holiday home built in 1929 for Coco Chanel in the style of Aubazine Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in France’s Corrèze region where the designer is said to have passed much of her time as a teenager. Ten years ago, the house of Chanel acquired the three-story, 15,000-square-foot villa from the Dallas Museum of Art — which had inherited the property from its previous owners, the publisher and literary agent Emery Reves and his philanthropist wife, Wendy Reves, in 2007 — with the goal of returning it to its original glory, thanks largely to an extensive restoration by Peter Marino, and to make it once again a place for artists to create. (Salvador Dalí lived and worked there with his wife, Gala, for four months in the 1930s; Yana Peel, the brand’s president of arts, culture and heritage, has been planning a weeklong retreat for writers in the fall.) Photographs by Clément Vayssieres (except the last one 🪞)