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Restoring the Chancellerie d’Orléans Interiors

Posted in the 18th century in the news by Amanda Strasik on September 15, 2011

As noted several weeks ago by Art Daily . . .

Germain Boffrand and Antoine Coypel, Chancellerie d'Orleans, also known as the Hôtel de Voyer d'Argenson, ca. 1707 (Photo: François Jeanneau)

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) Europe announced today a project to restore and reconstruct the interiors of the Chancellerie d’Orleans, which have been in storage for nearly ninety years. One of the most important Parisian hôtel particuliers of the eighteenth century, the Chancellerie d’Orleans was demolished in the 1920s but its interiors were saved and stored for later reinstatement elsewhere. Now that a preliminary study by a French Architecte en chef des Monuments historiques has been completed, the interiors will be installed in the former Hôtel de Rohan-Strasbourg, a structure contemporary to the Chancellerie and now the Archives nationales.

For more information about the reinstallation of the interiors,
read the full article here»

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