Pavillon frais
Versailles, France
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Designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour between 1751 and 1753, the Pavillon frais is a delicate folly situated in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon at Versailles. This one-room pavilion served as a summer dining room where courtiers could escape the formality of court life and enjoy fresh air and produce from the adjacent kitchen garden. Gabriel conceived it as an exercise in green architecture, entirely cloaked in green trellis with a rectangular, symmetrical garden plan adorned with arcades topped by basket-shaped vases and two small oval basins flanking the flowerbeds. Abandoned during the French Revolution, it was demolished in 1810, but archaeological investigation and restoration campaigns in the 1980s and 2010 faithfully reconstructed the building and garden to its original design, restoring it to classified historical monument status—though the arcades remain unfinished.
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- Type
- folly
- Heritage
- classified historical monument
- Place
- Versailles, France
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