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Charles Percier ( [ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.
Apr 1, 2024 · Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine were a pair of French architects and interior designers who carried out many building and decorative projects during the reign of Napoleon I and helped create the influential Empire style (q.v.) of interior decoration.
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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.
Aug 21, 2018 · Percier, Fontaine, and Charles-Louis Bernier, an architect friend, are buried together, as they intended from their days as impoverished if talented school chums, in Paris’s Père Lachaise...
May 14, 2018 · Percier, Charles (-Charles Bassant) (1764–1838). French Neo-Classical architect who studied with A. -F. Peyre and in Rome before establishing an architectural practice with Fontaine in Paris in 1794.
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“Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by French architect and interior designer Charles Percier (1764-1838).
Upon winning the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1786, Charles Percier spent the next seven years as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France. Together with Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853), a fellow student of the architect Atoine-François Peyre, he sketched the monuments of ancient and modern Rome.
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