Monday, 20th - Tuesday, 21st February 2017

This trip was advertised in the November 2016 Newsletter and is now fully subscribed.  If you are interested in being placed on the waiting list please contact the Events Secretary as soon as possible by emailing events@furniturehistorysociety.org.

NB. Participants will be responsible for making their own travel and accomodation arrangements.

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Over this two-day visit to Paris, the Society will focus on some of the most significant furniture and interiors of the French Premier Empire (1804-15).  The group will have access to three sites that are not usually open to the public:

- The Hôtel de Charost, official residence to HM's Ambassador to France since 1814, when it was brought by the Duke of Wellington.

- The Hôtel de Beauharnais, the official residence of the German Ambassador and recently subject to extensive conservation works.  The house lavishly decorated for Napoleon's stepson, Eugène de Beauharnai, features the most complete suite of Empire interiors in Paris.

- The furniture stores at the Mobilier National, which comprise some particularly fine pieces of French Imperial furniture and gilt bronzes.

The visit will be led by Dr Wolf Burchard.