The Hôtel Pams was built between 1852 and 1872 by Pierre Bardou, one of the founders of the JOB cigarette paper company. After his death in 1892, Pierre's son-in-law, Jules Pams, transformed the mansion in the 1890s into an elegant mansion. Pams commissioned the architect and designer Léopold Carlier to carry out the renovation, which added gold, marble, and onyx throughout, along with marquetry furniture.
Paul Gervais, a fashionable artist of the time, painted seductive women, love, and the virtues of civilization on the walls of the Hôtel Pams. Today, the Hôtel Pams is owned by the city of Perpignan and is occasionally open to the public, such as during the Visa Pour L'Image exposition in the first two weeks of September and the European Heritage Days. The Hôtel Pams stands as a grand display of wealth and artistic taste, a testament to the turn-of-the-20th-century opulence of its former inhabitants.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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