Hotel Pams
The Hôtel Pams is an upper-class town house in Perpignan , which the Pams family set up there at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and whose splendid furnishings have been preserved. Today it serves the city's cultural and representative purposes and is a listed building .
Geographical location
The building is located at 18 rue Émile-Zola (formerly rue Saint-Sauveur) in the historic center of Perpignan.
history
The house was bought by Pierre Bardou in 1852, son of Jean Bardou, who had been producing the JOB brand of cigarette paper since 1849. In 1872 adjoining areas were acquired and the owner had a factory built there as a glass and iron structure . This architecture opens onto a courtyard garden.
Pierre Bardou died in February 1892. Thanks to the considerable family fortune, his daughter Jeanne and her husband, Jules Pams, built a splendid city palace from 1896 to 1902 - including part of the factory complex. The architect was Léopold Carlier . Jeanne Pams died in 1916, Jules Pams in 1930.
In 1946 the city of Perpignan bought the building.
The house has been classified as a cultural monument since 1989 and has enjoyed increased protection since 2017 .
Architecture and equipment
Exterior
The building has a square floor plan, two floors and an attic. Because of the slope of the property, the first floor is on the same level as the inner courtyard, which is surrounded by a gallery. The facade facing the street has eight axes with French windows on the first and second floors. Those on the first floor are rectangular, those on the other two floors have stab arches . At the level of the first floor, a balcony runs the entire length of the building. Each window on the second floor opens onto its own balcony.
Entrance hall and stairs
The entrance area is decorated with the bronze statue “Time is over” by Raymonde Maldes . On the left shows a painting by Jacques-Émile Blanche Jeanne Pams , b. Bardou, and on the right is the sculpture Helena by Raymond Sudre . The vestibule is illuminated with daylight through a glass ceiling.
The grand staircase is decorated with onyx and stucco and adorned with paintings by Paul Gervais . The theme is, among other things, the "triumphant advance of Venus". The historicizing paintings highlight the theme of the struggle of civilization against barbarism. The stairwell opens wide into the entrance hall with a colonnade made of red marble . Cybele appears on the painted ceiling .
Salons
The first floor is occupied by the representative rooms, the furnishings of which have largely been preserved. Today they are used as reception rooms for the city of Perpignan, the former dining room as the office of the Mayor of Perpignan.
On the first and second floors, painted panels alternate with doors and windows. The painted panels depict allegories on the first floor and maritime scenes from Port-Vendres on the second floor . They are likely to be related to the builder's activities. The ceiling is decorated with an allegory of this city.
Yard and garden
The garden and terrace are integrated into the factory building at the rear of the house. After Jules Pams' death, Marguerite Pams-Holtzer, his second wife, with whom he had been married since 1918, had the terrace raised and paved.
The inner courtyard is surrounded on three sides by a portico in which Ionic columns and pilasters alternate. On the longest side of the first floor there is a gallery of seven semicircular arched windows. On the two short sides of the courtyard there are two loggias , on which Ionic columns and pilasters also alternate. The color here serves the architecture: the floor made of red paving stones, red brown in the lower part of the walls of the loggias and blue ceramic friezes with floral decorations. These frame a central blue and gold mosaic that serves as a background for the bronze figure of Pan . In the middle of the courtyard is a marble nymph by Tancrède Bastet (1896).
Individual evidence
- ^ Site officiel de la mairie de Perpignan
- ^ Hôtel Pams on Base Mérimée .
- ^ Hôtel Pams on Base Mérimée .
- ^ Hôtel Pams on Base Mérimée .
- ^ Hôtel Pams on Base Mérimée .
- ^ Hôtel Pams on Base Mérimée .
Coordinates: 42 ° 41 ′ 52.7 " N , 2 ° 53 ′ 54.2" E