Château Labottière, Private mansion and creative residency in Bordeaux, France.

Château Labottière is a private mansion and creative residence in Bordeaux featuring eighteenth-century neoclassical architecture. The rectangular structure spans two stories and displays classical proportions with a balustrade crowning the roofline.

Brothers Antoine and Jacques Labottière, book publishers from Bordeaux, commissioned this house between 1770 and 1773. Architects Étienne and Jacques Laclotte designed the neoclassical structure that reflects the taste of the period.

The Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez uses the rooms today for exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Visitors can see how a historical mansion serves as a venue for current artistic work.

The mansion stands at 29 rue Labottière, a private property of the Institut Culturel Bernard-Magrez, so entry is not open to walk-in visitors. The street facade and the garden à la française can be seen from the public road; the dark panel at the right corner carries the institute's lettering. Access to the interiors depends on the institute's exhibitions and residencies.

The neoclassical design travelled far: in 1912 tobacco magnate James Buchanan Duke had a near-exact replica built on New York's Upper East Side, the James Duke House, designed by African-American architect Julian Francis Abele. A pastiche also stands in Gradignan, rue Gutenberg, the nineteenth-century château Carthon-Ferrières.