Germain Boffrand
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Germain Boffrand was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of
Portrait of Germain Boffrand by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
Hôtel de Soubise (1704–1707); Boffrand returned to execute a suite of high rococo interiors (1735–1740)
Wall elevation in the bedroom of the Prince de Rohan at the Hôtel de Soubise
Château de Lunéville (1708–1709)
Hôtel de Soubise
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The Hôtel de Soubise is a city mansion entre cour et jardin. It is located at 60 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France.
Germain Boffrand
…Baroque classicism with some innovations in spatial planning that were exceptional in France. His major commissions, culminating in his interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise, were memorialised in his treatise Livre d'architecture, published in 1745, which served to disseminate the French Louis XV style throughout Europe…
The corps de logis
The Salon ovale de la princesse, by Germain Boffrand, with paintings by Charles-Joseph Natoire
The design of the building
the cour d'honneur of the Hôtel de Soubise