Inside Jean Cocteau’s dreamiest creation – now available to rent

Billionaire’s playground: few places warrant the moniker as thoroughly as does Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, on the Côte d’Azur. Its sprawling estates are sequestered from proletarian eyes by tall walls and automated security gates. The houses on them catalogue a century’s worth of architectural folly, from belle époque confections to contemporary behemoths cosplaying as intergalactic spacecraft.