Hotel of Marle

The Hôtel of Marle is a private mansion located in full heart of the district of the Marais, between the Rue Elzévir and the Rue Payenne.

It currently accommodates the Collection of art of the Institut Tessin and the Arts center Swedish .

History

In 1560 at summer builds the first hotel, sold in 1572 to an Adviser of the Parlement of Paris. Many modifications were made there during the centuries, but the most important work was carried out towards 1779. It is of this time which the main staircase and the distribution date from the ground floor where some traces of decoration of style of Louis XVI were found.

Sold in 1816, the Hotel sheltered a house of education then, then divided into apartments and commercial premises, it was occupied by a workshop of tapestry maker, a factory of envelopes, a laboratory and various tenants of which most famous are, undoubtedly, the painter Léonor Fini and the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues. On the Street Elzévir, the totality of the old garden was covered with a hangar and was used as garage.

Contemporary time

In 1965, the Hotel was bought by the Swedish State with mission of ensuring the restoration according to a perfectly established program of it: Institute Tessin, Arts center Swedish, housing of the director and temporary residences of personalities or students wishing to take part in the Parisian cultural life, etc…

Work was undertaken in February 1967.

Under plaster coatings, ceilings painted with the Frenchwoman were discovered, of the traces of frescos and a semicircular roof with counter-curve with the ridge sheathing, known as " with the Philibert Delorme ".

On garden, the two small houses ahead body presented to the ground floor two arcades inside whose two rectangular windows had been built. The arc was restored, the surveys made it possible to discover barges with stone balusters which were restored. Some cross still having glazing bar, those were used as model to restore them with all the openings.

The frame of Philibert Delorme is remade with identical and is replaced. New attic windows out of wooden were built side garden, others had to be remade side court. All the new covers were carried out out of thick slates. The coated frontages are remade with the lime mortar.

Elements registered on the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings

In 1961 on the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings the following parts of the building were registered:

frontages and roofs on street, court and garden
the staircase with its cage and its slope

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