Pathé Palace, Opening Ceremony on September 16, 2024
The Pathé Palace was inaugurated in the presence of Jérôme Seydoux, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and architect Renzo Piano. The ceremony marked the official opening of this emblematic new cultural place. Metamorphosed into a highest standing theatre, the Pathé Palace promises a unique experience!
PATHÉ PALACE
On October 12, 2017, Pathé acquired the property adjacent to the cinema at 3 and 3bis rue de la Chaussée d’Antin, including a 2 screens theatre, 1 retail outlet and 5 floors of office space, i.e. almost 2,500 m2. This acquisition gave rise to the ambitious Pathé Palace project, an upscale, atypical, lively, open-plan design space entirely dedicated to the cinema, with 7 screens, a bar, reception areas and Pathé offices.
AN UPSCALE CINEMA
With 7 screens and 854 seats, Pathé Palace offers to cinema lovers a unique venue where comfort meets cutting-edge image and sound technology.
All screen rooms have been designed to be accessible to people with reduced mobility, as well as with hearing or visual disabilities, thanks to the Twavox solution.
The Pathé Palace is a real place to live, offering a range of new and exclusive services in addition to its traditional offerings,
Accessible to all, the Bar, designed by Jacques Grange, offers a varied range of gourmet food and beverages: emblematic cocktails, original aperitifs, premium coffees… Open from lunchtime until early evening, the Bar seats 50 and offers a breathtaking view on the Boulevard des Capucines.
For oenophiles and curious, the Wine Wall offers 24 wine references for self-glass service. Selected in collaboration with Taillevent’s sommelier teams, the bottles are kept at the optimum temperature and preserve all their aromas thanks to Enomatic© technology.
Seat-side service, you can book your food and beverages in advance of your screening via the Pathé mobile app. On arrival, the order is placed at the entrance or served directly to the reserved seat.
The Pathé Café (opening in autumn), located on Chaussée d’Antin street, on the ground floor, will be accessible to all and open all day long. The menu will include the best popcorn in Paris, made on site with original flavors, a range of bubble teas, ice creams and a selection of hot and cold drinks.
Right from the Pathé Palace entrance, a Concierge service takes care of guests’ every need to perfect their experience, with priority cab booking, tourist recommendations (restaurants, tours…), as well as the loan of phone batteries, plaids, padlocks and umbrellas.
Pathé Palace also has a permanent and supervised cloakroom on the mezzanine floor.
Le Pathé Palace offers 650 m2 of reception space that can be fully privatized and customized, with or without the use of the movie rooms, for small meetings or large-scale receptions. Whatever the need, the Pathé Palace teams assist companies at every stage of their project to organize tailor-made events.
All our event spaces are equipped with the latest technology to ensure the highest quality of service.
THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
The Pathé Palace is located in one of the blocks built at the end of the 19th century around the Palais Garnier. Restored in accordance with rules of the art, the project blends respectfully and contemporarily into this urban ensemble. The entrance via the rotunda, kept in the collective memory of Parisians, has been preserved and enhanced by careful restoration and subtle illumination.
The new façade creates a visual permeability that opens up the building to the city, inviting visitors to enter its large glass hall to discover “La Piazza”, an interior square, a space for walking and meeting, at the heart of the project. “La Piazza” consists of a glass atrium with a footprint of around 300 m², and contains a garden planted with birch trees, bringing light to the lobby, the theatre’s main circulation areas, the BtoB spaces and the offices.
Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France – Rénovation Privée was selected to restructure this 9,500 m² complex.
Many people around the world have buried the cinema and think that television has eliminated it once and for all; in fact, they’re just repeating a thought that the Lumière brothers already had.
Le Palace is a reasonable folly, a showcase for all the dreamers of this world, all those who believe that imagination and emotion prevail over reason. Audiences will come here to see a film, but also to visit a place like no other, a place in the center of Paris, next to the opera house, designed by a genius architect and built by enthusiasts who strive for quality and excellence at all times.
Jérôme Seydoux
