Danish House in Paris

The House of Denmark sits at number one hundred forty two on the Champs Elysees as a dedicated center for Danish culture and commercial interests. The site originally held a nineteenth century hotel called the Hotel Subiran, which the Danish state purchased in nineteen forty nine to serve as a platform for projecting the country's national identity abroad. Architects demolished the original mansion and stables to construct the current building, which was inaugurated in nineteen fifty five with a ceremony attended by King Frederik the Ninth and Queen Ingrid. This institution remains the only national project of its kind Denmark successfully realized during a post war push to establish cultural outposts in major international cities.