Allées de Tourny, cours de l'Intendance, cours Clemenceau, place des Grands-Hommes. We search on your behalf, off-market included, from first conversation to completion.
People commonly speak of Haussmann-era buildings in Bordeaux, and it is a misreading by roughly a century. The city was redrawn long before, under the intendants Boucher and then Tourny, in office in succession from 1720 to 1757. It was they who cut the ring of cours, imposed strict façade requirements on builders and gave the city its symmetrical squares. The result is the largest eighteenth-century architectural ensemble in Europe. An apartment in the Triangle d'Or is therefore bought in the eighteenth century, with all that implies for proportion, height and stone — and it is not the same thing.
Three origins meet in the Triangle. The eighteenth-century private mansions, built between court and garden then divided into only a few lots. The ordered buildings born of Tourny's requirements, regular from one façade to the next. And the nineteenth-century buildings that completed the alignments, often with a lift added since.
This is the first knowledge here, and it changes everything. The Bordeaux eighteenth century offers ceiling heights, enfilades and stonework the following century did not reproduce. We systematically establish the period and, where it exists, the architect's signature.
The perimeter has been fixed since the end of the eighteenth century, when Chalifour drew the quarter's definitive plan around place des Grands-Hommes. Nothing will be added. The apartments in these buildings form a finite set, often passed on within families.
Bordeaux residents attached to the historic centre and to walking. Families recently arrived in the metropolis, wanting an address already established. Buyers from across Nouvelle-Aquitaine, drawn to this address in particular. And connoisseurs of the eighteenth century, drawn by one particular building.
Cut through in the mid-eighteenth century and lined with limes: the most sought-after addresses in the sector.
The floors above the shops, with the finest ceiling heights in the Triangle.
The centre of the quarter drawn by Chalifour, around the market and the Enlightenment streets.
Facing Victor Louis's Grand-Théâtre, the most heritage-rich addresses in the city.
You go down for bread on a Saturday morning, cross the allées beneath the limes, and come home through the market without having taken the car since Tuesday.
The étage noble or the top level, the eighteenth-century enfilade or renewed comfort, a frontage onto the cours or the quiet of an inner street. In the Triangle d'Or these choices lead to particular buildings, which we know.
The market is narrow and owners know one another. Notaires, managing agents and families keep us informed early, and a significant share of movements is settled before any listing is considered.
We establish the building's period, whether an architect's signature exists, the exact ceiling height, the condition of the common areas and the access. You know precisely what you are looking at before deciding.
Through to completion, alongside your notaire. We negotiate for you, and for you alone — never for the seller.
No. In the Triangle d'Or, an étage noble in an eighteenth-century mansion and an apartment of the same size in a building from the following century share neither heights, nor proportions, nor address. We start from the building, its period and its floor.
No, and it is a point we often clarify. Bordeaux's ordering precedes Haussmann by roughly a century: it comes from the eighteenth-century intendants, who already imposed strict façade requirements. Knowing how to date a Bordeaux building changes entirely how you will read it.
That is precisely why it exists. The quarter was conceived as a place for walking and trade, and has remained so: the Grands-Hommes market, the shops of cours de l'Intendance, the Grand-Théâtre, the quays and the Jardin Public are all reached without a car.
Yes, and here it is decisive. The number of apartments in these buildings is fixed, movements are few, and a significant share passes on without any listing appearing.
Agreed in advance and transparent. For a search mandate they fall due only on acquisition. The detail is set out at our first meeting.
One call is enough to frame your search in the Triangle d'Or. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13The Triangle d'Or is one of the quarters we work in across Bordeaux. We cover many others, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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