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Article: The grand salon from the Hotel Gaillard de La Bouexiere.(Biography)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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The salon in eighteenth-century Paris functioned as a gathering place for reading literature, engaging in conversation, and indulging in diversions such as music. The architecture and decoration of these rooms were intended to make them conductive to such refined pursuits. The grand salon from the Hotel Gaillard de La Bouexiere is a distinguished survival of eighteenth-century French interior design. This sumptuous room, with its carved and gilded paneling, has been painstakingly conserved and restored and recently installed as a period room at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (see Pls. II, IV-VI). It serves as an architectural context for the museum's impressive ...
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