Situé en plein cœur du Paris Expo à la Porte de Versailles, l’Electric est le nouveau lieu design pensé par le designer français Mathieu Lehanneur. Avec une vue panoramique sur la ville de Paris, ce lieu au décor moderne avec un arbre créé en son centre est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
by Andrea Dicenzo There’s arguably no better place to speak candidly about an erotica magazine than a Parisian cafe. The whispered French and eruptions of laughter, the shuffling of waiters and the clanging of cutlery indicative of the romance of this sexy city—this is where publishers Lucie Santamans, Esthèle…
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Lighting projectors and cables hang from the spindly branches of chunky black trees inside this penthouse bar and nightclub in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur (+ slideshow).
Named Electric, the music venue features soundproofed music rooms, an outdoor terrace and a dance floor facing out over the city skyline.
Mathieu Lehanneur collaborated with architect Ana Moussinet to design the interior and added split levels to define different zones.
By day, sofas and trunk-shaped stools can be dotted around the space to form lounge seating areas. By night, these are stored away to open up a ballroom with a rippled DJ booth.
Faceted windows and diagonal panels give texture to the walls in one of the spaces. Others can be used as screens for lighting and video projections.
Mathieu Lehanneur launched his industrial design and interiors studio in 2001. Other interiors he’s designed include a renovation of a Romanesque church in France and an office filled with pulped paper caves. See more design by Mathieu Lehanneur.
Trees have featured in a few interiors recently. See a few more in our recent feature all about indoor forests.
Daytime photography is by Felipe Ribon and night photography is by Fred Fiol.
Here’s some more information from the design team:
Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur
“If Alice in Wonderland had liked rock this is where she would have spent her days and nights…” summarised Mathieu Lehanneur. Electric, the new cultural platform in Paris, is already an event in itself: a 1,000 m2 penthouse in which the designer has devised a canopy of sound suspended between heaven and earth, monumental electrical braids emerging like pitch black trees.
Impressive by day, magical by night, Electric is a venue which never sleeps. A lounge interspersed with soundproofed modules and an 80m2 terrace, Electric is a space equipped with a mixing console whose ballroom floor provides a new perspective over Paris, integrating the ring road as a perpetually moving graphic foreground facing the metal mesh of the Eiffel Tower.
An ephemeral restaurant at lunchtime, a lounge or a club from dusk ’til dawn, Lehanneur and Ana Moussinet have designed a space which can also be freely customised through video projections and an infinite number of layouts available to its customers.
A huge trompe l’œil window onto the city, surrounded by streams of LED lights, is an ultimate nod to a new Versailles, Electric has already been chosen by We Love Art, and Kavinski for the global launch of his next album, and Ducasse… Meanwhile there are already rumours about the installation of an enormous open-air swimming-pool on the site of the car park this summer.
A result of the high creative demands of the management ensured by curator John Michael Ramirez whose range of artists contributes to the cultural distinction of the venue: Greater Paris has found its centre of gravity.
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Named for the Latin motto “nec plus ultra” (literally, “nothing farther beyond”), Henrik Vibskov’s latest effort “Neck Plus Ultra” is a continuation of his AW 2013 show, “The Stiff Neck Chamber.” Taking place in an elaborate space—a forest of upside down long necks that can be identified as black…
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Inspiré par de vieilles étiquettes de voyage, le graphiste anglais Neil Stevens a imaginé des posters stylisés, inspirés de ces éléments, reprenant ainsi quelques unes des plus grandes destinations comme les capitales Paris, Londres ou Barcelone. Un résultat réussi à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
A student housing block in Paris modelled on a stack of wooden baskets features in this latest movie about the work of Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti.
Entitled Basket Apartments, the ten-storey building was completed in autumn 2012, but was officially opened at the end of January this year.
OFIS Arhitekti conceived the building as a series of “spinning and rotating baskets”, that each contain a cluster of rooms with private balconies. See more information and images of Basket Apartments in our earlier story.
Filmaker Carniolus has produced a series of movies about architecture by OFIS Arhitekti, including one about an Alpine holiday hut and another about three baroque houses converted into apartments.
See more architecture by OFIS Arhitekti on Dezeen, including a culture and technology centre inspired by a conceptual space station.
Photography is by Tomaz Gregoric.
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Walls, shelves and desks are all made from piles of modular blocks at this office in Paris by French studio h2o Architectes (+ slideshow).
As the workplace for creative agency Hypernuit, the office occupies a ground floor unit that is visible to the street through floor-to-ceiling shop windows.
h2o Architectes were asked to create workspaces for five people, plus a small meeting room. “The refurbishment project had to reflect the dynamic and innovative spirit of the agency with a serene and contemporary space,” explain the architects.
The muted grey blocks come in a mixture of shapes and sizes, and are piled up around the room to define separate areas for each occupant. Shelves surround the desks to offer seclusion, but each one also faces out into a central corridor.
“The balance of these elements and the different scenarios help to define hierarchy and priorities,” the architects told Dezeen. “The modules have different shapes and proportions so that they can be used for as many functions as you can imagine.”
The white interiors of the blocks give a second tone to the plain grey furnishings, offering a simple backdrop to the colourful books, plants and stationary that were inevitably added afterwards.
As well as the usual storage areas, the space incorporates display boards for temporary photography exhibitions.
All of the modular parts were constructed in the workshop then assembled on site to ensure a speedy construction process. The arrangement can also be reconfigured to adapt to future needs and changes.
Architects Charlotte Hubert and Jean-Jacques Hubert launched h2o Architectes in 2005. Antoine Santiard joined them in 2008 and the team have since completed an apartment in Paris for a comic-strip collector and a garden pavilion where furniture forms the entire interior. See more architecture by h2o Architectes.
Photography is by Julien Attard.
Here’s a project description from h2o Architectes:
Hypernuit Offices, Paris
Context
The project takes place on the ground floor of a building of flats, behind a large window looking out onto the Clignancourt Street. The office space to create has a single orientation; it is a well-lit, plainly treated volume with a simple geometry. The commission consisted in fitting-out an office space including five identical desks, a common meeting room and shared facilities.
Hypernuit is an agency employing different people as artistic directors, graphic designers and workers in public relations. The refurbishment project had to reflect the dynamic and innovative spirit of the agency with a serene and contemporary space.
It also had to include a maximum of shelving for storage, the creation of exhibition walls for the display of photography shows. The schedule for the building works was very tight.
h2o architectes created for these offices a sort of indoor landscape thanks to a play with blocks.
These volumes of varied form and size constitute the living space for each person working there. Their adjunction and combination help compose the furniture, the desks, the separation and exhibition walls, the coffers etc.
The different parts were made in a workshop to save time on the building-site. The unitary treatment of the floor and of the furniture responds to the demand of a serene atmosphere.
The space is enlivened by the white color of the thickness of the different blocks and of course by the books and objects brought by each user. Each desk benefits from both openness towards the shared space and a more private area which can be modeled by a play with void and volume.
Design Architects: h2o architectes
Program: Development of an office space for five desks, meeting room and shared facilities
Location: 72 Rue Clignancourt, Paris 18th, France
Client: Private, Hypernuit
Area: 65m²
Date: Delivered January 2013
Above: floor plan
Above: cross section
Above: 3D model view one
Above: 3D model view two
Above: typical modular desk units
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The bright lights of Broadway and the Eiffel Tower’s ironwork inspired the interior of this Parisian hamburger restaurant by French studio Cut Architectures (+ slideshow).
Located in the 10th arrondissement, Paris New-York’s interior combines the trademark styles of the two cities, according to Cut Architectures.
Outside the restaurant, a small dining area is covered by a canopy in the style of a theatre or cinema entrance and fitted with a grid of white bulbs.
The bulbs continue along the black ceiling inside and are reflected in the mirrored back wall.
The bar and staircase are covered with sheets of aluminium fixed down with round head rivets, referencing classic American chrome trailers.
Black and white cement tiles inspired by Parisian hallways cover the floors.
The exposed steel structure inside the staircase references both the Statue of Liberty and the ironwork of the Eiffel Tower.
The black ceiling and bare walls upstairs continue the restaurant’s monochrome palette.
We previously featured an apartment full of dotty perforated screens and a cafe decorated with scientific apparatus by the same designers – see all projects by Cut Architectures.
Other restaurant interiors we’ve published lately include a dining room carpeted with fake grass and a canteen with tree-like sculptures growing out of the tables – see all restaurants.
Photographs are by David Foessel.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Paris New-York restaurant is the latest joint of the flourishing hamburger restaurant scene in Paris. The meat and the ingredients are carefully selected to offer high quality burgers.
PNY design is a blend of NYC and Paris cultures and spirits, yet trying to avoid clichés. The black ceiling is pierced by a grid of light bulbs reminding of the Broadway cinemas and theatre fronts, echoing the black and white cement tiles floor iconic of the Parisian hallways.
Mirrors are diffracting the light bulbs on the ground floor and reflecting the bare walls on the first floor. Referring to the Eiffel structures and the copper-clad Statue of Liberty, the steel structure of the bar and staircase is covered with raw aluminium boards attached with the round-head rivets used on the Airstream caravans. The steel structure is revealed inside the staircase.
Above: ground floor plan
Project name: Paris New-York restaurant
Programme: Burger restaurant
Address: Paris (10th)
Client: Paris New-York
Above: first floor plan
Size: 90 sq m
Date: Drawings started in May 2012, end of work December 2012
Cost: €180,000 excl. VAT
Above: section
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Despite its Japanese core and status as one of the oldest denim labels, Edwin has been a relatively slow burner in the raw denim, heritage area of the market. Even while sporting one of the most visually arresting selvedge lines—the rainbow selvedge—the brand as a whole has felt like…
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