In appearance, nothing can suggest that this facade of an old building in the 10th arrondissement, in Paris, conceals at the end of a courtyard a real architectural treasure: the Bourrienne hotel, the last private mansion in the Directoire style in the capital.
A piece of French history that Charles Beigbeder renovated from top to bottom, meticulously - and at great expense - over three years.
He made it his office and that of his company, the investment and management company Audacia.
Paintings, moldings, frescoes, columns, ironwork... Everything has been preserved as it is, in the large adjoining rooms on the ground floor, up to the small winter garden, which made Stéphane Bern "crack" when he visited the place!
Charles Beigbeder had been looking for a similar property in Paris for several years.
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“When I visited Bourrienne, I literally fell in love with my future office
, he enthuses.
It was truly aesthetic love at first sight.”
He…
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