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/
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The Trianon de Porcelaine (French pronunciation: [tʁijanɔ̃ də pɔʁsəlɛn]; French for Porcelain Trianon) was a short-lived structure constructed near the Palace of Versailles in the Kingdom of France, and is considered to be the first Chinoiserie building in Europe.
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The Trianon de Porcelaine (French pronunciation: [tʁijanɔ̃ də pɔʁsəlɛn]; French for Porcelain Trianon) was a short-lived structure constructed near the Palace of Versailles in the Kingdom of France, and is considered to be the first Chinoiserie building in Europe. It was built in 1670 on the former site of the village of Trianon which Louis XIV had acquired in the 1660s to enlarge the grounds of his expanding palace.
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The Trianon de Porcelaine (French pronunciation: [tʁijanɔ̃ də pɔʁsəlɛn]; French for Porcelain Trianon) was a short-lived structure constructed near the Palace of Versailles in the Kingdom of France, and is considered to be the first Chinoiserie building in Europe. It was built in 1670 on the former site of the village of Trianon which Louis XIV had acquired in the 1660s to enlarge the grounds of h
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The Trianon de Porcelaine (French pronunciation: [tʁijanɔ̃ də pɔʁsəlɛn]; French for Porcelain Trianon) was a short-lived structure constructed near the Palace of Versailles in the Kingdom of France, and is considered to be the first Chinoiserie building in Europe. It was built in 1670 on the former site of the village of Trianon which Louis XIV had acquired in the 1660s to enlarge the grounds of h
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The structure comprised five wood-framed pavilions
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The new structure comprised five wood-framed pavilions decorated with blue and white ceramic tiles, in what was considered to be a Chinese style, emulating accounts that had been received of the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing.
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