When Ferdinand Bac began work on the residence that would become Les Colombières in the early 1920s, he wasn’t just designing a house in the hills above the coastal city of Menton in southern France—he was creating a place where architecture, interior spaces, and gardens function as a single, continuous composition.
As reported by the New York Times, the German-born artist first came across the property in 1919 while searching for a winter home for friends,…

