Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rocaille and Rococo styles, nicknamed "the French Borromini".
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
Title page of the Grand Oppenord
Signed drawing of a writing desk
Palais-Royal. Preliminary design (c. 1716) for a bed alcove
Jean Bérain the Elder
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Jean Bérain the Elder was a draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of ornament, the artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi where all the designs originated for court s
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
…for Robert de Cotte, developed the voluptuous rocaille border and shell ornamentation, founded on the Italian Grotesque, that had been developed by Jean Bérain. His earliest known commission to design interiors was at the Hôtel de Pomponne in Place des Victoires, Paris (1714). He was entrusted with the restoration…
Portrait of Bérain, engraving by Claude Duflos after Joseph Vivien
Transom of the Soleil Royal, Louvre, 1670
Costume design for Pulcinella (1703)