Musée Nissim de Camondo
The Musée Nissim de Camondo preserves a private home built for collecting—an unusually direct window into how French decorative arts were displayed in the early twentieth century. The mansion in the Hôtel Moïse de Camondo was constructed from 1911 to 1914 for Count Moïse de Camondo, a French banker of the Sephardic Jewish Camondo family. Architect René Sergent shaped the layout around the Petit Trianon at Versailles, while adding modern conveniences. Moïse de Camondo died in 1935 and bequeathed the house and its collections to Les Arts Décoratifs in honour of his son Nissim, killed in action in World War I. The museum opened in 1936, and it is maintained in an almost original, home-like state. …
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