 It used a plot occupied by a store for ancient statues in the royal collection, on which Grimod de La Reynière had obtained a royal concession to construct a building similar to the hôtel de Saint-Florentin (which had been constructed in the northeastern corner of the new Place Louis XV, now Place de la Concorde, to plans by Ange-Jacques Gabriel).The layout of the rooms is known from a relief by the architect Johann Christian Kammsetzer, preserved at Cracow.The grand salon and the state rooms gave onto an English garden spread between the south facade and the gardens of the Champs-Élysées.