Hotel de Crillon, Salon of the Duc de Crillon

The Hôtel de Crillon, built in 1758 by Jacques-Ange Gabriel at the request of King Louis XV, was acquired in 1788 by François Félix de Crillon, who gave it his name. In 1907, it was bought by the Société des grands magasins et des hôtels du Louvre, which decided to transform it into a palace. In 1909, it became Paris' first major "prestige hotel". In 2010, it was sold to a member of the Saudi royal family, who undertook a major renovation campaign.

We worked on the Salon du Duc de Crillon, one of the hotel's signature suites. As part of a Bouygues project, and under the direction of Affine Design, we restored the ornamental parts and painted the accompanying woodwork, with the aim of restoring the room to its former glory, which had been severely damaged by its last repainting. Aline Asmar from Amman was responsible for the decoration part of the project.

We restored the ceiling tablecloth painted sky and the Sham-box décor of the archivolt which had a lot of fouling and many gaps. Some of the lower panels were cleared from the scalpel as their eighteenth ornaments had been covered. Once the original decorations were brought to light, an important retouching and re-harmonization campaign was carried out in order to put them at the same level as the height panels which, on the other, required only a devernment and a classic restoration.

The rest of the décor (the cornice, the doorframes and the rest of the woodwork) has been repainted in shades of beige. The exceptional work of accented gold that came to rhythm all the mouldings and sculpted ornaments has been completely restored.