4.CHAMALIERES (Puy-de-Dôme) – Villa Servant and Majestic Pavilion
The Servant Villa and the Majestic Pavilion, annexes of the Grand Hotel and Majestic Palace, form a historically and architecturally inseparable whole and constitutive of the thermal heritage of Royat.
- XIXe century -
Historic Monuments Registration October 6, 2022 the facades, roofs and park of the Majestic Pavilion including the former Servant Villa
former protection: facades and roofs of the Majestic Pavilion.
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Vast and luxurious establishment overlooking the spa of Royat, the Grand Hotel and Majestic Palace was built in several campaigns from 1860 to 1887 in a neo-louis XIII style.
In 1879, the owner, Léon Servant, had the Beausite villa built on the edge of the park in the same style. In 1885, a second one was attached to it, probably due to the architect Ernest Mizard, author of the last enlargements of the hotel.
In the same year, it is probably the same architect who builds in the extension a villa intended for the residence of the owner himself, the villa Servant. Its street facade boasts an exuberant and ostentatious programme of an eclectic neo-Renaissance/neo-Louis XIII style characterized by its lively composition, varied materials and heavy ornamentation: in the centre of the three bays, the light forebody framed by broad pilasters is occupied by a covered bow-window forming balcony. Lighters, staples, railings and entablaments are decorated with sculpted motifs (women’s heads, foliage, flowers, fruit, etc.).
The broken roof covered with slate is pierced by large dormers with full triangular pediment.
In 1911, Léon Servant, who no longer resides at this address, decides to combine the three villas in a single building forming the Majestic Pavilion », now a luxurious addition to the hotel. Ernest Mizard made this transformation by placing a new facade as an advance of the old ones, with the exception of the one on the street of the former villa Servant.
This operation made it possible to develop bathrooms in this intermediate space and to give the facades a seaside and modern character, spectacular by its green and white glazed brick cladding and its sumptuous loggias. On the park side, the same dressing is operated but also includes the facade of the Servant villa, which stands out only by its lower height.
In the 1950s, the complex was transformed into a condominium residence. Major interior renovations were carried out on this occasion.
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