Text © Shane O'Toole. Exterior photos and plan variously © Mairie de Roquebrune and Renaud Barrès/Mairie de Roquebrune. Photos of furniture and Le Corbusier letter © National Museum of Ireland. Photos of vandalised interior and Le Corbusier murals © Daniel Ryan. Fuller version of the piece first published in The Sunday Times, March 17, 2002,