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Kaufman & Broad is a publicly traded real estate development and construction company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. [1] It was a subsidiary of the American homebuilding company KB Home until May 2007, when it was sold to the private equity firm PAI Partners for 601 million euros (812 million dollars). [3] It is Paris's largest ...
Château de Rustéphan in Finistère, Brittany. Ruins of large 15th–16th century manor house. Château de Trécesson in Morbihan, Brittany. manoir du Clap, 16th-19th century Manor in la Cerlangue, Upper Normandy. Manoir de Dur-Écu, 16th century manor in Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy. Manoir de Mathan, 16th century manor in Crépon, Normandy.
Maison Jansen, the Parisian decorating firm, refurbished the home under the supervision of the Duchess. The Duke and Duchess both died at the house, in 1972 and 1986 respectively. While the villa served as their main residence, the Windsors also owned a country house (Moulin de la Tuilerie), where they spent most weekends and summer holidays. [3]
France has a long tradition of social and state intervention in the provision of housing. In 1775, the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans was built with a part dedicated to house workers. [ 1 ] In the 19th century the cités ouvrières (company towns) appeared, inspired by the Phalanstère of Charles Fourier . [ 2 ]
The mansion is a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) Mediterranean Revival mansion on 4.5 acres. It was designed by architect Robert D. Farquhar and built in 1923. When it was the opulent residence of silent film star Antonio Moreno and his wife and oil heiress Daisy Canfield Moreno, daughter of pioneer oilman Charles A. Canfield, it was the scene for lavish Sunday afternoon parties for members of ...
Villa La Leopolda in its current incarnation was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by the American architect, Ogden Codman, Jr., on an estate once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold had made the previous estate a present for his mistress Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix , also known as Caroline Lacroix, and it derives its name ...
American soldiers admired the architecture of rural France and who returned from the war they built homes in the style. In the United States the style remained popular though the 1920s. [1] By 1932 nearly one in three homes in America had French Provincial design elements.The style fell out of favor in the 1930s, [6] but had a resurgence in the ...
The wood panelling of the Salon de la tapisserie largely dates from the second half of the 19th century. One of the most significant works of art in the Hôtel de Besenval today is the large 18th-century tapestry in the Salon de la tapisserie, produced in the Gobelins Manufactory. The production of the first copies of these tapestries began ...