Their home, Villa America, was a center of Riviera social life receiving the likes of Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Serge Diaghilev and Pablo Picasso.

Due to her association with Riviera society, she was introduced to the American expatriate architect, Barry Dierks, who was capable of building a villa in the Modernist, Art Deco style that was then popular in Miami.

[2] The villa, which was built on a plot of land that Dierks liked to describe as being the size of a grand piano, replaced an earlier modest structure named the Bungalow.

On the ground floor, the cross-vestibule, which features a free-standing spiral staircase with a white-enameled banister supported by Venetian glass balusters, opens onto the dining room, which is directly across from the entrance.

The salon is further noted by the large carpet designed by Roger-Henri Expert and Pierre Patout (woven in Cogolin) for the French Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.