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DENIS-LOUIS DESTORS (1816-1882) Hôtel Abraham-Behor... - Lot 265 - Lucien Paris
DENIS-LOUIS DESTORS (1816-1882) Hôtel Abraham-Behor de Camondo, Porte du Grand Salon, Grand vestibule, 1876 Ink and watercolour drawing on paper, signed "M. Destors architecte" and dated lower right. Caption in ink "Hôtel Camondo à Paris, grand vestibule, porte du grand salon, détail à 0,10 m par mètre".
96.5 x 63 cm.
In 1869, the brothers Abraham-Behor de Camondo (1829-1889) and Nissim de Camondo (1830-1889), Jewish bankers from Constinople,
moved to Paris to develop their family business.
In 1870, they acquired two adjoining plots of land on rue de Monceau, bordering the Parc Monceau.
Count Nissim de Camondo had a townhouse built at number 63. This hotel was replaced in 1910 by the present one, commissioned by his son
by his son Moïse (1860-1935) who accumulated a fabulous collection of 18th century French decorative arts.
He bequeathed the hotel to the Arts Décoratifs. It is now the Nissim de Camondo Museum.
Count Abraham-Behor de Camondo commissioned the architect Denis-Louis Destors, a student of Charles Garnier, to build his private mansion at number 61. It was completed in 1875 in an eclectic style. The architect received the silver medal for private architecture for this project, awarded by the Central Society of Architects.
The hotel was sold in 1893 by Isaac de Camondo, son of Abraham-Behor, to Gaston Menier (1855-1934), youngest son of Emile Menier, senator of Seine-et-Marne and director of the
of Seine-et-Marne and director of the Compagnie du Chocolat Menier, who probably had the annex buildings on the courtyard and the building on the street built.
as well as the building on the street. The hotel was also the residence of Georges Menier, his son (1881-1972), who left the hotel on the rue de Monceau to live in
de Monceau to live in the hotel de Jarnac, rue Monsieur.
This building has been classified as a Historic Monument since October 17, 1977.
A view of the hotel of Count Abraham-Behor de Camondo, created in 1876 by the architect Louis Destors,
is preserved in the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
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