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In 1997 it was proposed to sell the house due to problems with its financing but this was met with strong criticism with prominent users and collaborators and was ultimately rejected. Instead it was decided to relaunch the house as a self-owning institution managed according to commercial principles
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The administration of the building was transferred from the prime minister's office to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 1961. In 1986 the facility came under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as represented by the Danish Embassy located only two blocks away.
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The building houses two restaurants. Restaurant Flora Danica is located on the ground floor and has outdoor service in the courtyard garden. Restaurant CPG (Copenhague until the renovation) is located on the first floor.
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In 1952 the hotel was demolished to make way for the new building which had been designed by Hvass. Ground was broken on 23 September 1952 in the presence of the Danish prime minister
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Now a self-owning institution, the operations are financed through the renting out of four of the seven floors to international companies. The
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on the second floor. It also contains a Danish restaurant on the ground floor and office space rented out for international companies.
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The renovation of the house involved a reconstruction of the front of the building, refurbishing the individual floors, renovation of
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in 1935 where Thyse Hvass represented Denmark with his single-family houses. The plans were delayed by the coming of
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The refurbished House of Denmark was re-inaugurated in February 2002 it the presence of Queen
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but in 1948 the Danish state acquired the l'Hôtel Subiran on Champs-Élysées.
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The house is furnished with a combination of classical and contemporary
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culture and commercial interests. The main venue of the house is the
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The idea for a House of Denmark abroad was conceived after the
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has a showroom in the ground floor of the building.
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as well as to put it through a major refurbishment.
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Index


French
Danish
Champs-Élysées
Paris
France
Danish
Brussels International Exposition
World War II
Erik Eriksen
Robert Schuman
Frederik IX of Denmark
Ingrid
H. C. Hansen
René Coty
Edgar Faure
Erik Mortensen
Robert Jacobsen
Margrethe II
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
Bertrand Delanoë
Danish design
Arne Jacobsen
Poul Kjærholm
Poul Henningsen
Nanna Ditzel
jazz concerts
Danish bicycle culture
Bang & Olufsen
List of foreign cultural institutes in Paris

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