Château de la Grillière

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History

Eclectic building in red brick, of asymmetrical plan, from the late 19th century, built in the English taste by the architects Jean and René Moreau, in place of a main house demolished for the occasion. The initial project was designed by Jean Moreau, and continued in 1899 by his son, René, in collaboration with the client, Stephen Durieu de Lacarelle, who was then returning from a trip to Scotland. It testifies to the Anglicising style of the 1900s. The park was redesigned at the same time in the same spirit. The interior decorations likewise illustrate the choice of eclecticism, and were executed by the sculptor Thiébaud (1895-1898) and the decorative painter Detanger. Grand staircase of Renaissance style in pink marble (1895); the grand and small salons are separated by columns with Corinthian capitals and decorated with stuccos and woodwork in the 18th-century spirit. The library-smoking room, the study, the dining room with woodwork inspired by the 18th century (overdoors with mythological scenes) were partly recovered from Logère castle. Decorative painted scenes come from Montriboux castle. On the upper floor, the bedrooms were each decorated and furnished in a different style (Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire).