listed private mansion for sale Paris 5ᵗʰ, France

Close to the Luxembourg Garden, in a small Directoire-style hotel overlooking the garden, a 130 m² duplex apartment with its lounge decorated as a historical monument. The apartment occupies the right wing of a small private mansion listed as a historical monument, hidden from the street by a modern building designed by Jean Dubuisson, a laureate of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1945. A caretaker resides on the premises. A first glass vestibule, protected by a code followed by an intercom, provides access to a large hall under video surveillance, clad in beige marble. Through large glass walls, a shaded garden with white gravel paths, planted with acacias and sycamores, is revealed, adorned with small circular flowerbeds combining rhododendrons, ivy, and hydrangeas. At the end of the 19th century, it housed painters' studios, notably where Alfons Mucha and Jean Dupas worked. Built in 1796, the Scelles Hotel is a remarkable specimen of late 18th-century architecture. Intended for the sculptor and stonecutter François Scelles, the building occupies part of the estate of the Carmelite convent, sold as national property during the Revolution. The strictly ordered façade is elevated one floor above the ground floor and opens through five bays on either side of a central body of the building. The latter, set between two slender marble pilasters in a very slight projecting body, is raised and adorned on the noble floor with three triangular pediments. Witnessing the 17th century, the stone balustrade cornice announces, with its flat roof, the French-style roofing of the 18th century. The second floor of the central body dominates the façade with its three windows with crossettes surmounted by a sculpted keystone. Two stone consoles support the entire structure, topped by a curvilinear pediment pierced by an oculus housing the supposed bust of François Scelles. A private entrance, at the right angle of the façade, serves two apartments. The access door reveals a hall adorned with a cloakroom as well as a staircase leading to the first floor. The façade is rhythmically punctuated by six tall windows with double wooden shutters, facing southwest and overlooking the garden; the level comprises a kitchen, a dining room of nearly 18 m², and then, in succession, a bedroom of about 15 m², accompanied by its bathroom and wardrobe. Adjacent to the dining room and listed in the inventory of historical monuments, a reception room of about 38 m², with a vaulted ceiling, has a large arched transom to the west. The interior decoration of the grand salon, constructed in the place of the former oratory of Louise de La Vallière, is most certainly unique in France due to the quality, diversity, and rarity of the marbles that cover its walls. These marbles range in tones of chip, Languedoc red, and Pyrenean green. Pilasters in violet breccia surmounted by capitals support a molded cornice that frames a wide border painted in grisaille with Pompeian inspiration, where women dressed in antiquity dance on either side of famous men's busts represented in trompe-l'œil in medallions. Massive mahogany double doors close all exits. The level also includes guest toilets. In the dining room, a wooden staircase leads to a second attic level. Two bedrooms of about 10 and 16 m² with exposed beams, a bathroom, and separate toilets occupy the floor. An underground parking space and a cellar, both accessible by elevator, add to the property.This description has been automatically translated from French.