The Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris in pictures

Lovers of antique furniture head for the Musée Nissim de Camondo, in Paris's 8th arrondissement, to discover this private mansion's incredible collection of some of the finest furniture and objects from the time of Louis XV and Louis XVI.

A museum belonging to Arts Décoratifs, bequeathed in 1924 by Moïse de Camondo, which invites you to discover an incredible collection of furniture dating back to the 18th century.

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For the record, when he moved to Paris in 1869, Nissim de Camondo bought a mansion at 63, rue de Monceau, while his brotherAbraham-Behor built his own on the neighboring plot. Without any rivalry, the two brothers received Paris's elite in style.

His son, Moïse de Camondo, became a prominent collector and financier. On his mother's death, he had the family home razed to the ground, with the exception of the building on the street , to build a private mansion by the architect René Sergent, to house his extensive collection of 18th-century furniture, paintings and objets d'art.

On the death of his son during the First World War, whose name was Nissim like his grandfather's, Moïse decided to bequeath his hotel and its collections to theUnion centrale des arts décoratifs in memory of his son, for whom it had been intended. With this in mind, he continued to add to the collection until his death in 1935, building up a collection perfectly representative of 18th-century French art. The museum was subsequently inaugurated by his daughter in 1936.

This hotel, built between 1911 and 1914, is a classic-looking residence equipped with all the modern comforts of an early 20th-century home . It is the only surviving example of how a private home on the Plaine Monceau functioned.