Why you should experience citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees in Paris, France.
citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees is a rebellious four-star hotel where Champs-Élysées's luxury mythology, fashion performance, contemporary art culture and international visibility are recast through citizenM's deliberately democratic interpretation of high-design hospitality.
Set along Rue La Boétie near Avenue des Champs-Élysées and just steps from Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 151-room property emerged from Concrete and AREP's two-year conversion of an outdated 1970s office building, replacing its corporate interior with a vast communal living room, terraced courtyard and rooftop overlooking the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur. Concrete furnished the public spaces with Vitra while integrating commissioned and collected works by Luck Left Hand, Sarah Morris, JR, Frank Horvat, Andy Warhol, Thomas Raat, Christophe Bucklow, David Salle and Jordan Wolfson into the architecture. Three outdoor spaces extend that social premise vertically through the ground-floor courtyard, canteenM terrace and cloudM rooftop, an unprecedented configuration within citizenM when the hotel opened. The result is a hotel where Concrete's architectural intervention, museum-caliber contemporary art and citizenM's rejection of traditional luxury formality give Champs-Élysées a hospitality experience calibrated to the cultural confidence of the avenue.
What you should know about citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees.
citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees is best known for opening on September 1, 2021 after citizenM and Crescendo Real Estate commissioned Concrete as design architect and AREP as executive architect to convert an outdated 1970s office building into a 151-room hotel, a project subsequently selected as a 2022 MIPIM Awards finalist for Best Hotel & Tourism Resort. The opening made the property citizenM's fourth Paris hotel, fifteenth in Europe and twenty-third worldwide since the Dutch company began operating in 2008, while two years of reconstruction reorganized the existing building around guestrooms specifically dimensioned to fit its inherited structural structure. The resulting 151 accommodations use citizenM's standardized XL king bed and compact room philosophy while transferring conventional hotel floor area into substantially larger communal spaces, with lighting, blinds, temperature and television controlled through either the citizenM app or in-room MoodPad. Three distinct outdoor environments were incorporated into the conversion, comprising a landscaped ground-floor courtyard, first-floor canteenM terrace and cloudM rooftop with Eiffel Tower views, making Champs-Élysées the first citizenM designed with three outdoor spaces. Concrete and AREP's conversion represents an unusually complete application of citizenM's operating model to an existing Parisian structure, retaining the 1970s building while radically redistributing how its interior volume is used.
Rattan Chadha's citizenM art collection gives that architectural strategy another authored layer, placing Sarah Morris's Tauros, a JR lightbox, a Frank Horvat photograph, Andy Warhol's Flowers and works by Thomas Raat, Christophe Bucklow, David Salle and Jordan Wolfson throughout Concrete's communal interior. French artist Luck Left Hand received a site-specific commission for the entrance to the living room, while citizenM collaborated with Paris creative agency Starter, led by Aurélie Dablanc and Anne-Marine Guiberteau, to select Marie Guillard, Elvire Caillon and Mélodie Bachet for artwork inside the guestrooms. Vitra furniture extends Concrete's long-running citizenM design style across the living room and cloudM rooftop, including twentieth-century design objects such as Charles and Ray Eames's Lounge Chair amid the collection, bookshelves and contemporary commissions. Together, Rattan Chadha, Concrete, Vitra, Luck Left Hand, Sarah Morris, JR and the three French female artists turn citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees into something considerably more rigorous than a technology-driven hotel, using architecture, furniture and contemporary art to construct a deliberately accessible alternative to the ceremonial luxury surrounding it.
How to fold citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees into your trip.
citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing private collecting, chamber music and decorative imagination through the quieter cultural world immediately behind the avenue.
Begin at Musée Jacquemart-André, where banker Édouard André commissioned Henri Parent to build his Boulevard Haussmann mansion between 1869 and 1876 before Nélie Jacquemart expanded their collection through international acquisitions and ultimately bequeathed the house to Institut de France, which opened it as a museum in 1913. Continue to Salle Gaveau, where piano manufacturer Gaveau commissioned architect Jacques Hermant to design an 1,000-seat concert hall with acoustics central to the 1905 plans, completing the building in 1907 before its first concert by the Bremer Lehrergesangverein on October 3. Conclude at Musée Nissim de Camondo, where Moïse de Camondo assembled an exceptional collection of eighteenth-century French decorative arts inside René Sergent's early twentieth-century mansion before bequeathing the house and collection in memory of his son Nissim, killed during World War I. The progression moves from Jacquemart and André turning private collecting into cultural inheritance through Gaveau translating musical craftsmanship into architecture and finally to Camondo transforming connoisseurship into memorial, revealing the serious culture of collecting and design behind citizenM Paris Champs-Elysees's own contemporary interpretation of art-filled hospitality.
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