The Castel Sainte-Claire was the first of the new buildings which, from the middle of the nineteenth century, began to occupy the spaces still left vacant in the old town. It is a villa built in a whimsical neo-Romanesque style by Olivier Voutier, the man who discovered the Venus de Milo. The American writer Edith Wharton lived here between 1927 and 1937, at a time when Rob Mallet-Stevens and several other artists were working for Charles de Noailles at the Clos Saint-Bernard.