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(...) we should now take account of the opposition to Art Nouveau. One of the forms this took was a Louis Seize Revival which, though it has been neglected by architectural historians, was led by architects of considerable finesse such as Charles-Frédéric Mewès, René Sergent, Walter Destailleur, and the Grandpierre brothers. These scholarly and refined architects followed on from Laloux, Girault and Nénot (...) to provide an ideal setting for the opulent cosmopolitan world of high society in the last years before the Great War, a world recorded so imaginatively in the novels of Proust.

David Watkin, A History of Western Architecture