Built in a vintage Tuscan style with a terracotta roof and
colonnaded galleries, the architectural gem features ample alfresco living and dining areas along with luminous interiors endowed with a small museum's worth of fine artwork.
Not exact matches
One of the most impressive parts is the
Colonnade, which was designed by Louis Le Vau, Claude Perrault, and the painter Charles Le Brun, whose handiwork you can admire in the Apollo
Gallery.
The town's art
gallery, the Pinacoteca, also lies just inside the
colonnades.
Above this was a long open
colonnade, behind which the emperor had a viewing
gallery.
[10] The 2000 - 2006 renovation restored many of the building's exceptional architectural features: restoring the porticos modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, a curving double staircase,
colonnades, vaulted
galleries, large windows, and skylights as long as a city block.
One of the more dramatic antiquities stands at Frieze Masters is that of Kallos
Gallery in London which, with its specially constructed arched
colonnade and intimate niches, resembles the kind of neoclassical English country house interior designed to house a collection of trophies acquired on an aristocratic Grand Tour.
Outside the building, the wooden beams overhang a
gallery supported by square white columns, an assemblage that resembles a classical
colonnade but also suggests something of Japanese design.