Hôtel Kinski
Hôtel Kinski stands in Paris as an hôtel particulier, originally designed by architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in the late eighteenth century. Elizabeth de Lamoignon commissioned the residence, which Princess Kinsky acquired in 1773. Its architecture places a grand private residence within Paris’s tradition of aristocratic townhouses.
Princess Kinsky commissioned a painted ceiling by Simon Julien in 1779. William Beckford and Marshal Lannes later lived there, while Charles de Pomairols turned the house into a literary salon during the nineteenth century. Banker Louis Louis-Dreyfus purchased the property in 1919 and introduced further alterations. Requisition during the Second World War preceded state ownership from 1945, followed by its sale to Qatar’s ruling family in 2006.
More than 4,000 square metres include a landscaped garden, an artificial grotto and a water feature. An eighteenth-century salon still draws attention to Julien’s painted ceiling, while protected-monument status has covered the building since 1991.
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