Trianon de Porcelaine

The Trianon de Porcelaine was a pleasure pavilion built in 1670 near the Palace of Versailles in France, on the site of the former village of Trianon that Louis XIV had bought in the 1660s to enlarge the grounds. It was designed by Louis Le Vau and completed by his assistant Francois d'Orbay, and is considered the first Chinoiserie building in Europe: five wood-framed pavilions faced with blue-and-white ceramic tiles imitating the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, the tiles made of tin-glazed earthenware from Dutch and French workshops. The central pavilion served as a banqueting house with three main rooms, including gilded bedrooms, and the surrounding gardens used pots of flowers that could be swapped quickly to keep displays fresh through the winter and even within a single day. The wood and tile construction deteriorated quickly, and by 1687 Louis XIV had it demolished in favor of a permanent stone replacement, the Grand Trianon, built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/