François-Joseph Bélanger
See also: Bélanger
François-Joseph Bélanger is a Architecte and neo-classic Décorateur French born with Paris in 1745 and died with Paris in 1818.
Presentation
It begins its career by imagining the transitory ones for the Amusements of the King (1767). Ten years later it buys the load of first architect of the count d' Artois, brother of the king. It is for the latter that it arranges the Château of Trifle in 1777 in the Bois de Boulogne and that it works with the decorations of the Château of Houses-Laffitte.During the French revolution, it remains with the Prison Saint-Lazare.
In 1813, to died of Alexandre Theodore Brongniart, it stands as a candidate to the resumption of the building site of the Bourse. In 1811 it rebuilds the cupola of the Corn exchange , current Produce exchange of Paris.
It drew several residences for the aristocracy or Parisian finance - one thus owes him the interior decoration of the Baudart hotel of Saint-James, 12 Place Vendôme - and exerted a notable influence on the design of the gardens of its time.
It also drew some pieces of furniture including one luxurious blue marble console ordered by Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, duchess of Mazarin, which one can admire with the Frick Collection of New York.
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