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Paris, France. Nationality (legal) French. Occupation (s) Architecture, interior design. Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine ( pronounced [pjɛʁ frɑ̃swa leɔnaːʁ fɔ̃tɛn]; 20 September 1762 – 10 October 1853) was a French neoclassical architect, interior decorator and designer.
Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) were the two most influential figures in the field of Empire decoration and furnishing. Official architects to the court of Napoleon, their main responsibility was the renovation of the various royal residences.
Sep 20, 1762 - Oct 13, 1853. Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worked in such close...
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Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) first met as architecture students in Paris. They studied the art and architecture of classical antiquity together in the French Academy in Rome during the 1780s and returned to Paris at the beginning of the Revolution.
Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard (20 Sept 1762) (b Pontoise, 20 Sept 1762; d Paris, 10 Oct 1853).French architect, interior designer and writer. With his friend and collaborator, Charles Percier (1764–1838), he was the finest exponent of ...
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (pyĕr fräNswä´ lāōnär´ fôNtĕn´), 1762–1853, French architect. He was known chiefly for the work which, beginning in 1794, he did jointly with Charles Percier; the development of the Empire style in France was almost exclusively an expression of their talents.
French architects Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre François Leonard Fontaine (1762–1853) are widely credited with the development of the neo-classical Empire style. Appointed architectes du gouvernement by Napoleon in 1801, their architecture and interior design work can be found in many of the monuments of Napoleonic Paris.
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