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The grand salon from the Hotel Gaillard de La Bouexiere.(Biography)

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| October 01, 2005 | Busch, Jason T. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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