La Samaritaine overhaul

LVMH’s plans for the iconic French department store La Samaritaine, which closed for security reasons back in 2005, are firming up. In 2013-2014 a new shopping centre, office complex, social housing, a creche and an 80-room luxury hotel the ‘Cheval Blanc’ will open its doors on the site, designed by the Pritzker prize-winning Japanese architects  [...] [...]

Hi-Matic Hotel by Matali Crasset

A colourful, new 42-room hotel designed by Matali Crasset has just opened in Paris, near Bastille. The modular, ecological ‘hi’ hotel ‘concept’ started back in 2003 with the Hi Hotel in Nice. Award-winning designer Crasset has developed a new type of hotel: practical and accessible, mixing up the codes of an urban hotel [...] [...]

Ritz Bar Terrasse

The Place Vendome’s emblematic address the Ritz Hotel hosts a weekend DJ program, that spills out from the Ritz Bar on to the beautiful indoor courtyard when it’s fine (6.30-10.30pm). On top of the resident DJs on Fri and Sat (btw, man about town Yan Céh will be mixing tomorrow Sat 23, 10pm), Phunk promotion, [...] [...]

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