Le Vau

[ luh voh ]

noun

1. Louis [lwee], 1612–70, French architect.

Example Sentences

The whole history of the chateau is a case of nested Russian dolls: Louis XIV’s architect, Louis le Vau, famously enlarged the small original chateau, to which architects over two centuries added wings, the chapel, the theater, annexes and outbuildings, including the Grand Trianon, set within its own park, and the Petit Trianon, completed in 1768 during the reign of Louis XV and given to Marie-Antoinette by Louis XVI.

From New York Times

The neo-Classical Pavillon, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was added to the baroque Old Wing by le Vau, which was later modified by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

From New York Times

He designed a famed British estate once owned by the 2nd Viscount Rothermere for the Dutch-born Swiss iron scion Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-­Bornemisza, as well as what he deemed one of his most challenging and rewarding projects: a massive reimagining for Baron Guy de Rothschild and his wife Marie-Hélène of part of the historic Hôtel Lambert, a 1644 Louis Le Vau mansion on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis.

From New York Times

The blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning was thought to have started in the roof of the listed building, which was designed by the celebrated architect Louis Le Vau, who went on to transform the palace of Versailles for the Sun King, Louis XIV.

From The Guardian

Among 30 city sites that will be specially opened to the public, one of the more interesting is the Hotel de Lauzun, a 17th-century mansion on the Île St.-Louis built by the French architect Louis le Vau, with rooms decorated by the painters Sebastien Bourdon and Charles Lebrun.

From New York Times