Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt (27 July 1672 – 13 March 1742)[1] was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rocaille and Rococo styles, nicknamed "the French Borromini".[2] He specialized in interior architecture and decoration, though he has been connected with the furniture of Charles Cressent.[3] His surname has also been spelled Oppenord and Oppenort.