Architectural Styles
Rococo
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1715-1774
- Ornate Decoration
- intricate detailing
- scrolls
- shells
- floral motifs
- Asymmetry
- soft pastels
- light hues
- Curvilinear Forms
- Integrated Interior & Exterior
- France with influences in
- Germany
- Austria
- Italy
- Eastern Europe
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Palaces
- churches
- private residences
- theatres
- salons
- Amalienburg Munich
- Nymphenburg Palace Munich
- Schönbrunn Palace Vienna
- Hôtel de Soubise Paris
- Chapel of the Holy Cross Munich
- Schleissheim Palace (Schleissheim, near Munich
- Ludwigsburg Residential Palace (Württemberg)
- Hôtel de Varengeville (Paris)
- Petit Trianon & Queen’s Theatre (Versailles)
- Château de Balleroy (Normandy, France)
- Palazzo Clerici Sala degli Specchi (Hall of Mirrors) (Milan)
- Palazzo Marchi (Turin)
- Palazzo Cavriani (Mantua)
- Royal Castle (Warsaw, Poland)
- Lednice Castle (Czech Republic)
- Kroměříž Archbishop’s Palace (Czech Republic)
- Vierzehnheiligen Basilica (Bavaria, Germany)
- Asamkirche (Munich, Germany)
- Ottobeuren Abbey (Bavaria, Germany)
- Palace / château hotels
- Townhouse hotels (hôtels particuliers)
- Historic “grand hotel” adapted in a Rococo-era building
- Manor house / country house hotels
- Convent / monastery conversions with Rococo interiors
- Heritage serviced apartments in Rococo buildings
- Hôtel Airelles Château de Versailles – Le Grand Contrôle (Versailles, France)
- Hotel de Crillon Paris
Adaptive Reuse
- Schloss Leopoldskron (Hotel Schloss Leopoldskron) (Salzburg, Austria)
- Castello di Guarene – Northern Italy
- Rococo former aristocratic residences in Austria, Czech Republic, and Bavaria converted to boutique hotels
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation