Chambre de Parade – Hotel de Soubise (1735)*

Artist/Designer: Germain Boffrand

Project Location: Paris, France

Figure 1: Ceremonial Bedchamber, Germaine Boffrand, 1735-1740 ( Source | Accessed : September 22, 2016 )

Figure 2: Ceremonial Bedchamber, Germaine Boffrand, 1735-1740 ( Source | Accessed : September 29, 2016 )

Figure 3: Wall evelation, Ceremonial Bedchamber, Hotel de Soubise. ( Source | Accessed : September 29, 2016 | Photographer: Germaine Boffrand )

Figure 4: Plan, Hotel de Soubise, 1731. Paris, France. ( Source | Accessed : September 22, 2016 | Photographer: Jacques Francois Blondel )

Style/Period(s):
Rococo

Primary Material(s):
Glass, Fabric, Plaster, Wood

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Significant Date(s):
18th Century

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Kimball, Fiske. The Creation of the Rococo. [Philadelphia]: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943.

Salzman, Mary. “Decoration and Enlightened Spectatorship” in Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past. ed. Dena Goodman Hoboken: CRC Press, 2006.

Scott, Katie. The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Building Address: 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris, France

Supporting Designers/Staff: Germain Boffrand

Significant Dates: 1735 - 1740

Associated Projects: Hôtel Petit-Luxembourg, Notre-Dame de Paris(Rose Window)

Tags: Rococo, Parisian, Germain Boffrand

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