Villa Pourquoi pas

The villa spans 247.22 m² over two levels, set within an 890 m² plot.

The entrance is on the upper level, which welcomes a vast 90 m² reception area, south-east facing and overlooking the sea. This space includes a living room, as well as a fitted kitchen open to the dining room. These areas are bright and south-east oriented. This floor also features a first complete master suite with a shower room and separate toilet.

The lower level offers three additional suites, including a spacious main suite. Measuring 39 m², it includes a bathroom with bathtub and shower, a toilet, a dressing room, and a private loggia. The other two suites, measuring 15 m² and 17 m², each have a shower room with toilet.

This floor also includes a laundry room, a fitness room equipped with a sauna, and an outdoor space.

The villa’s exterior offers several terraces, including a covered one with a summer kitchen, and an infinity pool.

The property also includes double parking.

Located on the front line with direct access to the sea, the coastal path, and beaches, this exceptional villa is at the heart of the highly sought-after Cap de Nice area.

Close to Mont Boron, it is just a few minutes from the port, Nice’s most attractive districts, and the beaches of Villefranche-sur-Mer. Numerous parks and outdoor activities are also easily accessible.

Nice Côte d’Azur Airport is a 25-minute drive away.

Situated on the front line of Cap de Nice, the villa is part of a development with rich and varied architecture. While Art Deco and Mediterranean regionalism have their place, the modern movement dominates, with most buildings dating from the 1950s and 1960s.

The Villa Pourquoi Pas, with its pure cubic geometry and dialogue with the Mediterranean landscape, embodies the meeting of modern aesthetics and seaside architecture. Backed by rock and supported by slender concrete pilotis, the structure appears to float above the sea. This lightness evokes Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Modern Architecture, theorized in 1927 and implemented in the Villa Savoye in 1929, where pilotis free the ground, creating a sense of suspension.

The apparent simplicity of its expression, the studied composition of its façades – widely open to the south – and the play of solids and voids over two levels (created by the glass doors, loggias, and terraces) energize the whole. The views and lifestyle are always oriented towards the villa’s exterior and its surroundings. Its discreet appearance thus reveals an exceptional panorama and high-quality features.

Honoré Adrien Toscan (1908-2002) was a French architect trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Nice. Originally from Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, he opened his architecture firm in Nice in 1924 and practiced in the region until his retirement in 1982. He also served as mayor of his hometown from 1977 to 1983.

His architecture combines traditional Nice techniques, such as bossage stone with reinforced concrete and render, with the Art Deco aesthetic characteristic of the 1930s. In the post-war period, his style evolved towards more streamlined and functional forms, clearly leaning towards the modern movement.

His prolific work illustrates this evolution through a variety of projects, including some of Nice’s most remarkable residential buildings. He also designed numerous high-end residences on the western hills, such as the Abbaye de Roseland and the Constellations de Fabron, as well as the Le Méridien hotel on the Promenade des Anglais and the Departmental Administrative Center of Alpes-Maritimes (CADAM), whose monumental and rationalist appearance illustrates his modernist turn.