It is intended to recall the grim statement by Sir Edward Grey, then foreign secretary, in August 1914: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime".
Comprising three once grand houses, and furnished with antique mirrors, desks, cabinets, clocks, statues, lamps and paintings, it's like an underfunded museum with comfortable beds.
This much is revealed in the details of the street – the street signs, the lamps, the carefully constructed squares, the blue-shuttered balconies, the old tram tracks and the cobbled paving stones.
It has stark walls, polished concrete floors, oversized Anglepoise lamps and butterfly chairs on the raised veranda, and an internal courtyard has a table for shady breakfasts and candlelit suppers.
Enter £10, for example, and it calculates that your money will pay for three solar lamps, which will be accessed by 19 people, save those families £389, give the children 3,738 extra hours of study time, and avert 1.6 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The four rooms are simply furnished, and from your balcony you can watch the sun set into the ocean, across a goat field that slopes down to a coastline dotted with tiny sandy coves; the darkness is sudden, and the rooms have no electricity, just candles and hurricane lamps.
3 Rue Benoit Bunico, falabrac.fabrik.free.fr There are several chic, haute couture vintage boutiques in Nice, notably Mademoiselle (mademoiselle-nice.fr) but Caprice is a more fun showroom, specialising in outrageous 60s and 70s outfits, with a great range of accessories too: from lava lamps to giant Courrèges sunglasses and Lanvin handbags.
The dreadlocked scientist with a penchant for lava lamps – and for another scientist, Delphine "Cosima's sort of a hippy stoner.
We tend to spend most of our time in either the dining room or the living room, and we have lamps in both.
"If the sun shines, we don't need to use the sun lamps on the pitch – but we probably have to water our pitches more".
Rooms have warm Arabic touches – lamps, rich drapes and ceramics.
