Saint James Madness

A yacht house built around 1750 and embellished in the years 1770-1780 for Claude Baudard of Saint-James, treasurer of the Navy and Colonies, by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger who also creates the famous factories of the garden in The English.

Privately owned and inhabited until the year 1950, it became the dependency of the then built high school nearby, to which it is still attached. The building has undergone significant changes since the eighteenth century.

Objective: In the context of an overall diagnosis of the building, study of the exterior and interior painted decorations to determine their previous conditions, with a view to a restoration project.

Over 200 surveys conducted on all media joiner and masonry

In the entrance vestibule: architectural decoration in trompe l'oeil attributed to Paolo Brunettei: tests of cleaning and lightening of the varnishes which allowed to find the original colors

In the dining Room: surveys and extensive clearances revealing, under the false marbles painted, a decoration of architecture by tromping the eye

In the other parts: identification by stratigraphies of previous pictorial layers

Outside: Identification by stratigraphies of previous pictorial layers (Peristyle, pediment...)