Hôtel Senchon de Bournissac

English translation

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History

François Senchon is a lawyer at the Parliament of Provence. He acquires plots of land around a courtyard and undertakes in the early 18th century to build the greater part of his hotel. Behind an imposing ordered façade opens a vast stairwell adorned with a baluster handrail that serves rooms on the upper floor with "French" ceilings. Extension of the hotel in the 19th century by the construction of a wing to the north, returning onto the garden whose ground floor forms a large hall, a sort of "gallery". From this period also date embellishments in the decoration. In the two rooms en enfilade facing the street on the ground floor, the chimney piers and overdoors are decorated with plasterwork and the walls covered with wallpaper. The dining room is decorated with a series of grisaille panoramas representing "the pleasures of town and country". The salon presents the series of "Views of Hindostan", from the Zuber manufactory of Rixheim whose original edition dates from 1807. Fine example of 18th-century civil architecture.