The architecture of the Renaissance in France; a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)
ver completed. One of the designs for it is interesting as illustrating Boffrands taste for curious planning (iMg. 374). It consists of a large circular domed saloon in the centre, surrounded by two tiers of galleries divided from the central space by twenty-four coupled columns. From this radiate… … GCALE OP--^- 10 0 10 10 30 w 50 SCALE 0F«--^ 1 I 1 100—JpEtT 374. Design for La iMalgrange, near Nancy, by G. Boffrand: Plan. designed as the centre of a radiating garden scheme, and in thisrespect resembles Boffrands design for a hunting lodge which wasbegun, but never finished, for the Archduke…