Hotel Duo

Situated half way between Notre Dame and Georges Pompidou Center, the Hotel DUO, formerly Axial Beaubourg is dedicated to serenity. Architectural decor and colors, space and materials merge in elegance and coziness with a warm modern theme. In perfect harmony with the neighborhood, Hotel DUO offers you great ambiance and proximity to all major landmarks, restaurants, nightlife and chic boutiques. Large comfortable rooms and suites, Lobby & Lounge Bar, Private Spa and Fitness make the new Hotel Duo the ultimate luxurious and trendy spot in Le Marais. A lifestyle experience on its own, with hospitality you won’t soon forget.

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"Rock ’n’ Roll 39 - 59" @ Fondation Cartier

Festival Agora 2007: Utopia-Exotica

In the journey in the confines of the possible that is utopia, the musical imaginary once again travels beyond homelands. The year the Centre Pompidou celebrates its 30th birthday, at the heart of a broadened shared space, IRCAM places the musical future in utopia combined with the exotic. Edgard Varèse cut off his ties with Europe to experience modernism in the United States, Karlheinz Stockhausen encountered the East, Jonathan Harvey invented the lyric setting where Buddha and Wagner meet... These unique adventures are all fueled by the faraway. The journey removes the weight of legacies. Elsewhere founds the "nowhere" of utopia.

Akin to the utopian spirit, the experimental attitude treats reality as a constant invention. It carries out tests or studies that eventually become works. What would happen if... ? This infectious question, the question of IRCAM, belongs to the creation that does not intend to "double" the world. It creates spaces entirely different and separate (Emmanuel Nunes), spaces that are entirely other. More fertile than the petrified nostalgia for the great bygone, devastated utopias, these imaginary journeys sketch an interval or a nearby garden. Another meridian.

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Hotel Bourg Tibourg

What you get are a sophisticated and super-charged color palette, a sense of high-profile design, and a deliberately cluttered venue that looks like an Edwardian town house as decorated by an obsessive-compulsive on psychedelic hallucinogens. It is set behind an uncomplicated, cream-colored façade in the Marais and marked only with a discreet brass plaque and a pair of carriage lamps. Its rooms were radically overhauled by superstar decorator Jacques Garcia. Bedrooms are genuinely tiny but rich with neo-romantic, neo-Gothic, and in some cases neo-Venetian swirls and curlicues. Each is quirky, idiosyncratic, richly upholstered, and supercharged with tassels, faux leopardskin, contrasting stripes, fringes, and lavish window treatments.

Same owners as Hôtel Costes – but don't expect this jewel box of a boutique hotel to be a replica. Aside from its enviable site in the heart of the Marais and its fashion-pack fans, this miniature hotel is all about Jacques Garcia's neo-Gothic-cum-Byzantine decor. Scented candles, mosaic-tiled bathrooms, luxurious fabrics in rich colours and the cool contrast of crisp white linens create the perfect escape.

Hotel Le Bourg Tibourg
19 rue du Bourg Tibourg
75004 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 78 47 39
Fax: +33 (0)1 40 29 07 00

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Of Montreal + Syd Matters @ Bataclan