After 90 years in storage, the Chancellerie d’Orleans in Paris will be making a comeback.
It’s long overdue. The 18th century hotel, a masterpiece originally built in 1707 and completely refurbished in the late 1760s, was torn down in 1923 to make way for an expansion of the Banque de France. The original plan was to place the interiors in storage, so that the bank could refinance them in another location. That never happened, so the decorative elements have remained in storage to this day.
Now the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced plans to restore the interiors in the former Hôtel de Rohan-Strasbourg, a structure contemporary to the Chancellerie and the Archives nationales.
