Why you should experience L'Imprimerie Hôtel in Paris, France.
L'Imprimerie Hôtel is an industrially inspired boutique hotel where Central Clichy's manufacturing inheritance, printing culture, contemporary French design and garden-centered hospitality converge across the former site of the Paul Dupont printing works.
Set along Rue Victor Méric near Rue Martre and just steps from Mairie de Clichy, the four-star hotel opened in September 2017 after Raphaël and Virginie Ferreira spent several years developing a property that had remained abandoned for decades. Interior architect Pascale Douillard of We Design preserved the printing narrative through large-format photographs of the former premises, typography-inspired carpeting, ink-blue guestrooms and a material style of raw steel, solid wood and wool. The contemporary property contains 49 rooms alongside a rooftop terrace, internal patio, garden, bar, fitness room and sauna, while the lobby functions as a library-lined salon with communal worktables and lounge seating. A courtyard-facing breakfast space opens toward Mur végétal #3, created specifically for the hotel by artists SupaKitch and Koralie in 2017, giving the former industrial site a contemporary artistic layer without severing the visual memory of its printing history.
What you should know about L'Imprimerie Hôtel.
L'Imprimerie Hôtel is best known for opening in September 2017 on the former Clichy site of the Paul Dupont printing company, whose origins reach to 1825 in Paris before the enterprise transferred its workshops to a disused glassworks in Clichy in 1858 and developed into one of the city's major industrial employers. The printing works employed 549 workers by the 1870s, including Manuel-Achille Debussy, father of composer Claude Debussy, and eventually encompassed typographers, proofreaders, lithographers, compositors and machine operators before reaching 1,200 employees during the interwar period. Paul Dupont continued producing major French publications including Le Nouvel Obs, Le Figaro Magazine and VSD during the 1980s before the Clichy operation closed in 1987, leaving the complex abandoned for decades. Raphaël and Virginie Ferreira initiated the hotel project in 2013, construction began in spring 2016, and the resulting four-star property opened with 49 guestrooms before receiving its formal inauguration on November 22, 2017, with Groupe Atland serving as developer and co-investor. Pascale Douillard and Aurélie Boisseau-Sillard translated that industrial chronology into the interiors through raw steel, solid wood, wool, printing-letter motifs, archival photographs and ink-blue tones, while Yota produced furniture, headboards, wardrobes, desks, mirrors and fittings for the guestrooms and common areas.
Pascale Douillard brought an established hospitality-design background to L'Imprimerie Hôtel after graduating from Créapole in 2002, collaborating with Jean-Philippe Nuel and founding We Design in 2005, allowing the former printing site to be interpreted through an experienced French hotel-design practice. SupaKitch and Koralie extended Douillard's material narrative through Mur végétal #3, a 2017 artwork commissioned specifically for L'Imprimerie and positioned opposite the naturally illuminated lower-level breakfast terrace, connecting the building's preserved graphic style with the artists' continuing Mur végétal series. Groupe Atland's hospitality conversion preserved the site's brick industrial character while introducing a large garden and seasonal rooftop capable of accommodating cocktail events for as many as 50 people, creating exterior social spaces within a complex previously organized around printing production. Together, Pascale Douillard, Aurélie Boisseau-Sillard, SupaKitch, Koralie and Groupe Atland establish a continuous narrative in which the Paul Dupont works remain legible through materials, typography, photography and commissioned art across the 49-room hotel.
How to fold L'Imprimerie Hôtel into your trip.
L'Imprimerie Hôtel works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing aristocratic pleasure architecture, nineteenth-century landscape design and twentieth-century engineering through Clichy.
Begin at Pavillon Vendôme, where a country residence constructed for Jean Delaunay between 1670 and 1693 was acquired by singer and dancer Françoise Moreau in 1697 and extensively embellished for her relationship with Philippe de Vendôme using artists associated with royal projects at Versailles and Marly, including sculptural work attributed to Jean-Baptiste Poultier and Jean Delapierre and a painted salon ceiling by Claude III Audran. Continue to Parc Roger Salengro, opened to the public in 1897 on land leased by Madame Denain, widow of composer Léo Delibes, expanded to 24,000 square meters by architect-voyer Bertrand Sincholles and inaugurated in enlarged form in 1910 with ponds and sculptures before receiving Roger Salengro's name in 1937. Conclude at Maison du Peuple, where Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods worked with engineer Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé from the mid-1930s to create a mechanically reconfigurable market and 1,000-seat hall using sliding partitions, movable floors, retractable glazed roofing and an early steel-sheet curtain-wall system. The progression moves from the decorative culture of Philippe de Vendôme through Clichy's nineteenth-century public landscape into Prouvé and Bodiansky's mechanically engineered architecture, revealing the unusually deep design and industrial history surrounding L'Imprimerie Hôtel.
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