Villa Wenden

Cannes, France

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

Villa Wenden is an Italianate villa in Cannes, France, designed by architect Henri Bourrit and constructed in the late nineteenth century for Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The building exemplifies the ornamental residential architecture favored by wealthy European nobility who made the French Riviera their winter retreat during this era.