Jean-Louis Palladin was born in 1946 in the small town of Condòm, in Armagnac country in southwestern France. Palladin spent a small amount of time at a restaurant stints in Paris and Monaco. He attended Toulouse a culinary school and then returned to Condòm. When Palladin came back from Condòm he started working in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant. While working the there the owner decided that Palladin needed his own place so they found and renovated an old monastery. They named the place
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architectural theorist, engineer, and well-known author of the Roman architecture handbook book De Architectura which was written near the end of his life, or approximately 20-30 BC. Vitruvius was living during a period where constraints of traditionalism and of innovation were evenly balanced. He was a greatly admired Greek architecture. It is said that his type of writing reflects the two different aspects of his own architectural personality: the practitioner
considered to be the great buildings of the world. Andrea Palladio was born in 1508A.D. in Italy. At a very young age he became a stone mason, however his journey into architecture began when he met Gian Giorgio Trissino who immediately saw ability in him and decided to mentor Palladio. Trissino combined a study of classical architecture with architecture of the time, all the while allowing Palladio room to develop a style of his own. In time Palladio was constructing villas through out the country