Charles Percier

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Charles Percier was a prominent French architect and designer, best known for co-developing the Empire style that shaped Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French person
architect
human
interior designer
awardReceived Prix de Rome
surface form: Prix de Rome for architecture
collaboratedWith Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1764-08-22
dateOfDeath 1838-09-05
educatedAt Académie royale d’architecture
Académie royale d’architecture
surface form: École royale d’architecture
employer Napoleon I
surface form: Napoleon I of France
era Napoleonic era
familyName Charles Percier self-linksurface differs
surface form: Percier
fieldOfWork architecture
furniture design
interior decoration
fullName Charles Percier self-link
genre architectural design
interior design
givenName Charles
influenced 19th-century European interior design
Empire style furniture makers
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement Empire style
Neoclassicism
notableFor Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration
co-developing the Empire style
notableWork Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
surface form: Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (with Fontaine)

Château de Fontainebleau
surface form: Château de Fontainebleau interiors

Château de Saint-Cloud, France
surface form: Château de Saint-Cloud interiors

Recueil de décorations intérieures (publication)
Rue de Rivoli urban scheme in Paris
Théâtre-Français (Comédie-Française) alterations
designs for Malmaison
interior designs for the Louvre
interior designs for the Tuileries Palace
occupation architect
decorator
draughtsman
interior designer
teacher
partner Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
placeOfBirth Paris
placeOfDeath Paris
positionHeld architect to Napoleon I
residence Paris
studentOf Antoine-François Peyre
workLocation Paris

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Auguste de Montferrand studiedUnder Charles Percier
Charles Percier fullName Charles Percier self-link
Charles Percier familyName Charles Percier self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Percier
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine knownAs Charles Percier
this entity surface form: Percier and Fontaine (as a design partnership)