An English Gardener on the Riviera

Born in Suffolk, United Kingdom, John Taylor is just 30 when he opens his first real estate agency in Cannes. He discovered the Riviera ten years before, when hired as a gardener by Sir Thomas R. Woolfield, a wealthy English businessman who asked him to enhance his Cannes estate.

By creating gardens of rare beauty and of a very British originality for the high society of his country of origin, he established enduring bonds with these families. As their right-hand man and confidant, he was soon asked to find them the most beautiful villas to rent or buy on the Coast… to the point of soon making it its profession.