Close to the Luxembourg Garden, in a small Directoire-style hotel overlooking a garden, a 130 m2 apartment with a salon decorated according to the ISMH. The apartment occupies the right wing of a small private mansion registered as a historic monument, hidden from the street by a modern building designed by Jean Dubuisson, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1945. A caretaker ensures a permanent presence. A first glass vestibule, protected by a code followed by an intercom, provides access to a spacious hall under video surveillance, covered in beige marble. Through large glass walls, a shaded garden reveals itself with white gravel paths, planted with acacias, sycamores, and dotted with small circular flowerbeds combining rhododendrons, ivy, and hydrangeas. At the end of the 19th century, the place housed painters' studios. Alfons Mucha and Jean Dupas notably worked there.

Built in 1796, the Scelles hotel is a remarkable specimen of late 18th-century architecture. Intended for the sculptor and marble worker François Scelles, the building occupies part of the domain of the Carmelites' convent, sold as national property during the Revolution. The facade of the hotel, strictly ordered, rises one floor above the ground floor and opens through five bays on either side of a central body of the house. This, inscribed between two slender marble pilasters in a very slight forebody, is enhanced at the noble floor by three triangular pediments. A witness of the 17th century, the cornice in stone balusters announces, with the flat roof, the French-style coverage of the 18th century. The second floor of the central body dominates the facade with three windows with crossbars topped by a sculpted clasp. Two stone consoles support the whole, topped with a curved pediment pierced by an oculus that houses the supposed bust of François Scelles.

A private entrance, at the right angle of the facade, serves two residences. The access door reveals a hall equipped with a cloakroom as well as a staircase leading to the first floor. Rythmed in facade by six tall windows doubled with wooden shutters, exposed to the southwest and oriented towards the garden, the distribution includes a kitchen, a dining room of nearly 18 m², then, in succession, a bedroom of about 15 m², accompanied by its bathroom and wardrobe.

Adjacent to the dining room and registered in the inventory of historic monuments, a reception room of about 38 m², with a vaulted ceiling, is pierced to the west by a large arched transom. The interior decoration of the large salon, built in the location of the former oratory of Louise de La Vallière, is unique due to the quality, diversity, and rarity of the marbles covering the walls, which are offered in shades of flea, Languedoc red, and Pyrenees green. Pilasters in violet breach crowned with capitals support a molded cornice that frames a wide painted gray border in Pompeian inspiration, featuring women dressed in an antique style on either side of famous men's busts represented in trompe-l'œil in medallions. Solid mahogany double-leaf doors close all exits.

In the dining room, a wooden staircase leads to a second attic level. Two bedrooms of approximately 10 and 16 m² with exposed beams, a bathroom, and separate toilets occupy the floor.

There is also an underground parking space and a cellar, both accessible by elevator.

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Listed private mansion with gardenVal de Grace - Paris 5ᵗʰ (75)
Price :
$2,473,100
($17,665 / m²)
Surface140 m²bedrooms3

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