Maison Martin Margiela redesigns Paris hotel ‘Maison Champs-Elysées’ - Paris (France)
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Maison Martin Margiela redesigns Paris hotel ‘Maison Champs-Elysées’ - Paris (France)
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This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2011-02-02
The hotel ‘Maison Champs-Elysées’ commissioned Maison Martin Margiela to reconceive, renew and create a new
interior design of the entire groundfloor together. 57 rooms, 5 junior suites, 6 suites.
Located in the historical building of the Maison des Centraliens in the heart of Paris, this soon-to-be five-star
estate is situated at the intersection of the Grand Palais, avenue Montaigne and the rond-point des Champs
Elysées. Exactly in the very heart of the ”triangle d’or”, 8 rue Jean Goujon.
After the 2009 projects of interior design, the creation of the Suite ‘Elle Décoration’ at Paris’ Palais de Chaillot, the
collaboration with Maison Champs-Elysées marks the Maison’s largest and most demanding interior design
project from the lobby to the restaurant and cigar bar and so on.
The origin of the building at number 8, rue Jean Goujon is the essence of a French Maison (house). In 1864, the
Duchess of Rivoli, Princess of Essling, Great Mistress of the House of Empress Eugenie, purchased the land to
have her house conceived by French architect Jules Pellechet. The masterpiece was completed in 1866 in the
purest classical Parisian style, haussmannien. The property was later bought by the Association of the Centraliens in 1919 in order to welcome the activities of the alumni association of the Paris’ Ecole Centrale. It has since then been enlarged to become from 1989 on a hotel.
“The Maison is happy to reinterpret another maison for its first hotel project in Paris. Maison Martin Margiela
creates a theatrical environment where reality and trompe-l’oeil are mixing together. The result is several sets with intertwined references giving an atypical ambiance harmoniously opposing past and present”, adds Maison Martin Margiela.
“For our clientele constantly looking for new lifestyle experiences, we wish to redefine what you may expect from being a hotel guest today. Together with Maison Martin Margiela, we are aiming at a luxurious yet relaxed place where purity of forms is matched with amazing detailing, in a corner of Paris which gathers all the most prestigious French couture houses”, says Bernadette Chevallier, president of Exclusive Hotels, for Maison Champs- Elysées.
Who? Maison Martin Margiela
What? Maison Champs-Elysées, hotel, restaurant, cigar bar, gardens, 10 reception halls
Where? Maison des Centraliens, Paris 8e
When? Opening in April 2011
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