The magnificent seven

Best for unbridled creativity

Hungarian architect Antti Lovag disliked the boxy shapes of traditional housing, which he found constraining, so he chose to give his buildings sinuous forms. Never is this approach more evident than at Le Palais Bulles, the Bubble Palace, which sits on the Massif de l’Esterel, in Théoule-sur-Mer taking in magnificent views of the Bay of Cannes. The property was originally designed for visionary entrepreneur Pierre Bernard (for whom Lovag also created nearby Maison Bernard, now open to the public), but was later bought by another creative genius, Pierre Cardin, who called it his ‘own