The ancestral seat of the family Hersent Luzarche, bequeathed to the city of Tours in 1951, now houses a collection of furniture, both of the French Renaissance and in Empire style.
The Empire style building was completed in 1823-1824 as tradeswoman Nadezhda Lobanova's home.
The Empire period was popularized by the inventive designs of Percier and Fontaine, Napoleon's architects for Malmaison.
The marchioness, who is fashionably dressed in the Empire style, was certainly more than just a dabbler in art.
The building was built in Empire style with rectangle alike ground plan with dimensions of 40x14 meters.
J. T. Byström, the architect who had designed the bakery, extended the building in the Empire style, completing the work in 1866.
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Decoration of the house includes polychrome painting, trompe-l'oeil murals in the eye of the dome, original wallpapers produced by Xavier Mader for the manufacturer Joseph Dufour et Cie, candelabra and chandeliers by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, and original Empire and Restauration period furniture.
It was rebuilt in an empire style in the first half of the 19th century according to the plans of Viennese architect Joseph Kornhäusel.
Originally constructed in 1889 to the plans of William Venn Gough, as the Port of Bristol Authority Docks Office, it is in a richly decorated Classical style with a roof in the French Empire style.