BEAUTIFUL BAKERY COUNTER Wood veneered with... - Lot 280 - Lucien Paris

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BEAUTIFUL BAKERY COUNTER Wood veneered with... - Lot 280 - Lucien Paris
BEAUTIFUL BAKERY COUNTER Wood veneered with thick slabs of white marble veined on three sides, the rectangular top with cut sides, the front The front has two rectangular reserves with curved spandrels, framed by pilasters with leafy capitals. Five straight side drawers. c. 1900. Wooden plinth. 93 x 178 x 69 cm. DOORS OF THE COURTYARD OF THE HÔTEL DE LAUZUN An architectural gem and a witness to the history of Paris, the Hôtel de Lauzun, or Hôtel Pimodan, is a private mansion located on the Île Saint-Louis, 17, quai d'Anjou, in the fourth arrondissement. It was built between 1657 and 1658 by the French architect Charles Chamois for the financier Charles Gruÿn des Bordes, whose father owned the cabaret of La Pomme de pin, frequented by Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine and which would have inspired the character of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme to Molière. It was decorated by the painter Michel Dorigny (1616-1665), pupil and son-in-law of Simon Vouet. It was bought and lived in in 1682 by the Duke of Lauzun, who used it as a pied-à-terre during his brief secret marriage to the Grande Mademoiselle, Louis XIV's cousin. It was acquired in 1685 by the Marquis of Richelieu, who sold it in 1709 to Pierre-François, Grand Audiencier de France and Receiver General of the Clergy of France. It then passed to his son, Jean-François Ogier, who sold it in 1764 to René-Louis de Froulay, marquis of Tessé. In 1769 it passed to his grandchildren, the Saulx-Tavannes, who sold it in 1779 to the Marquis of Lavallée de Pimodan who occupied it until the Revolution. In 1842, Baron Jérôme-Frédéric Pichon (1812-1896), a member of the nobility of the Empire, a famous bibliographer and bibliophile, and one of the most important French collectors of works of art, manuscripts and old books of the 19th century, bought the house. He undertook He undertook to restore the building, which had fallen into disrepair, and to refurbish it in the spirit of the 17th century, using old elements while preserving the remaining original decor. The hotel then took the name of Hotel de Lauzun. Jérôme Pichon housed his collections there. He rented some rooms to artists. Charles Baudelaire lived there from October 1843 to September 1845, on the top floor, in a small apartment overlooking the courtyard. He received Madame Sabatier there and wrote his poem L'Invitation au voyage. Among his neighbours in the building were his friend Théophile Gaultier, co-founder of the Club des Haschischins and of the Paradis artificiels experiment, and the painter Joseph Ferdinand Boissard de Boisdenier (1813-1866). At the latter's home, monthly sessions of the club took place, led by his friend, the alienist doctor Moreau de Tours. The latter made the members of the club consume hashish to study its effects. Théophile Gautier described his experience in a famous text. The drug was consumed in the form of a green jam called davamesk, a mixture of cannabis resin, honey, pistachio and a fatty substance. Participants ate it or smeared it on their faces. Charles Baudelaire attended a few sessions, which probably inspired him to write Les Paradis artificiels. The club was frequented by painters Delacroix and Daumier, writers Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert and Gérard de Nerval. The trance-like artists made such a hysterical racket that the neighbours finally got Boissart to move out. On the ground floor was the second-hand dealer Arondel, with whom Baudelaire was heavily in debt. In 1899, the City of Paris became the owner of the Hôtel de Lauzun for 300,000 francs. It wished to install a museum of 17th century decorative arts there. However, in 1905, it sold the hotel to Jérôme Pichon's grandson, Baron Louis Pichon, who loved the place. The building was classified as a historical monument in early 1906. Louis Pichon thanked the tenants, reunited the house, carried out restoration work, and in 1910 had the water downpipes in the shape of dolphins and, under the basket-handle arches of the carriage houses, the magnificent railings that we are dispersing, which give the hotel a very aristocratic character. These gates are not classified as historical monuments. In 1928, ruined, Louis Pichon sold the hotel de Lauzun to the City of Paris, this time for 4 million francs. After the war, the hotel hosted receptions for many crowned heads, such as Queen Elizabeth II in 1957, the Shah of Iran in 1961, King Faisal of Arabia in 1974... We will exhibit only some of the doors at Drouot. The others will be visible in our auction house in Nogent-sur-Marne, by appointment.
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