Hij werd een beroemd architect en designed onder andere een gedeelte van het huis voor de van der Bilts .
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The music roan interior was designed by Richard Bouwens Van der Boyen, a French architect of Dutch or Finnish descent, and made entirely in Paris by the firm of Allard et Fils, who supervised the installation. The walls are sheathed in pale gray and gold paneling designed in an eclectic melange of Renaissance and Baroque motifs perhaps best classified stylistically as "grand luxe." Engaged and free-standing columns on plinths, the lower thirds of their fluted shafts banded with gilded arabesques, articulate the fireplace wall and the large curved bay opposite it. Arabesque-paneled pilasters, inset mirrors and mirrored sliding doors, and carved panels with marble bosses enrich the other walls, and the central bays of the end walls are sheathed in blue-qray Campan marble fronted by elaborate tabernacle frames containing mirrors. The fireplace bay, also of Campan marble, has a console-flanked mantelpiece of the same marble ornamented with ormolu mounts. The overmantel, composed of a pedomented mirror flanked by niches, is inlaid with precious marbles. The side bays of the silver and gold-leafed ceiling are deeply coffered, and the flat central portion is frescoed in the neo-classical manner and includes figures symbolizing Music, Harmony, Melody and Song.
The morning roan in the same style as the music room was also designed by Van der Boyen and executed by Allard et Fils. Ionic pilasters articulate the bays. The general tonality is a warm gray to accord with representations of eight of the nine muses painted in oil on silver leaf in the corner panels. (Polyimnia was emitted for lack of a ninth panel.) The four elements are painted in grisaille on the mahogany sliding doors, and the four seasons, represented on the ceiling, complete the program of allegorical paintings in the Italian Renaissance manner.
The music roan interior was designed by Richard Bouwens Van der Boyen, a French architect of Dutch or Finnish descent, and made entirely in Paris by the firm of Allard et Fils, who supervised the installation. The walls are sheathed in pale gray and gold paneling designed in an eclectic melange of Renaissance and Baroque motifs perhaps best classified stylistically as "grand luxe." Engaged and free-standing columns on plinths, the lower thirds of their fluted shafts banded with gilded arabesques, articulate the fireplace wall and the large curved bay opposite it. Arabesque-paneled pilasters, inset mirrors and mirrored sliding doors, and carved panels with marble bosses enrich the other walls, and the central bays of the end walls are sheathed in blue-qray Campan marble fronted by elaborate tabernacle frames containing mirrors. The fireplace bay, also of Campan marble, has a console-flanked mantelpiece of the same marble ornamented with ormolu mounts. The overmantel, composed of a pedomented mirror flanked by niches, is inlaid with precious marbles. The side bays of the silver and gold-leafed ceiling are deeply coffered, and the flat central portion is frescoed in the neo-classical manner and includes figures symbolizing Music, Harmony, Melody and Song.
The morning roan in the same style as the music room was also designed by Van der Boyen and executed by Allard et Fils. Ionic pilasters articulate the bays. The general tonality is a warm gray to accord with representations of eight of the nine muses painted in oil on silver leaf in the corner panels. (Polyimnia was emitted for lack of a ninth panel.) The four elements are painted in grisaille on the mahogany sliding doors, and the four seasons, represented on the ceiling, complete the program of allegorical paintings in the Italian Renaissance manner.
