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From time to time, our department meetings, we meet in the lounge said Oppenord the hotel Assy I agree that staying in several rooms and lobbies arranged in a row as a dwelling formerly the Chief of the Archives (see a sketch of this hotel in 1857). At the other end of the hotel d'Assy, overlooking the garden Assy (see also our previous post on this beautiful garden), we find his current office decorated in the eighteenth century by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, known for his drawings of ornaments. Born in 1676 and died in 1742, this marks the transition from decorator style of the Regency period.
If we refer to Volume 1 of the catalog Museum of the History of France by Jean Pierre Babelon and Charles Braibant, published in 1958, research by an art historian would have to attribute with any likely to Gilles-Marie Oppenord , the decoration of this room that this would be where one of the few preserved sets!
If we refer to Volume 1 of the catalog Museum of the History of France by Jean Pierre Babelon and Charles Braibant, published in 1958, research by an art historian would have to attribute with any likely to Gilles-Marie Oppenord , the decoration of this room that this would be where one of the few preserved sets!
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Hotel d'Assy is lined with panels of all kinds, over doorways, elegant woodwork, door frames, piers, etc.. The doors are surmounted Oppenord exhibition of paintings depicting birds, flowers and fruits or stucco depicting women elongated (the four seasons?).
Before becoming the property of the Archives, this apartment decorated by Oppenord was occupied by a Dusuy, merchant. Until recently, at the time of Jean Favier, Director of Archives in the '90s, he served as his private office or was occupied by his family (after Mr. Favier, the Culture Minister Douste-Blazy who occupied the time of his mandate), but tradition has not perdurée, and this show, mostly unoccupied, now serves as a meeting room for our greatest pleasure ...
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