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Apr 1, 2024 · Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine (respectively, born Aug. 22, 1764, Paris—died Sept. 5, 1838, Paris; born Sept. 20, 1762, Pontoise, Fr.—died Oct. 10, 1853, Paris) 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 ...
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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.
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.
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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...
Percier and Fontaine was a noted partnership between French architects Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine. History. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological versions of early 19th-century Neoclassical architecture known as Directoire style and Empire ...
Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, the arch was built between 1806 and 1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I, on the model of the Arch of Constantine (312 AD) in Rome, as a gateway of the Tuileries Palace, the Imperial residence.
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.
