Hotel de Noailles Blog

Book your Meeting Room Online

Hôtel de Noailles — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:56:00 +0200

The Hotel de Noailles is proud to be one of the first Hotels in Paris to display an online meeting room booking system on its Website. This innovating solution was offered a few months ago by a young company called Meeting Room Connect.

This start-up was created by 5 associates who all have a long experience in the hospitality sector, business tourist industry and reservation systems. We have been convinced by their professionalism and have realised how helpful that new system could be for our clients as well as ourselves. The slogan “easy solution for easy meetings” is quite meaningful!

If you would like to learn more about that company, you may follow this link. To book your meeting room at the Hotel de Noailles, please click here.

Lexposia: The Law Fair in Europe

Hôtel de Noailles — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:32:00 +0200

Lexposia is an agency specialised in Law, Audit and consulting. It was founded in 1999 and has implemented an innovating and personal approach since its creation. Lexposia uses proficient marketing and communication strategies in order to create effective business for legal, audit, and consulting key-players.

On next 18 and 19 November, the 10th Lexposia fair will take place at the Palais Brongniart, in Paris. The objective of this European law, audit and consulting exhibition is to gather professionals of the sector to get a media coverage and discuss further issues like Medical Law or Internet Fraud, among others.

The Hotel de Noailles has gone into a partnership with Lexposia to offer special rates to all those who will attend this event. Indeed our property is ideally located, only 5 minutes' walk from the Place de la Bourse where the Palais Brongniart stands. Please feel free to get in contact with us to learn more about that agreement... We would be very happy to welcome you!

For more information: Salon Lexposia

Enjoy Nice Weather in Peaceful Patio

Hôtel de Noailles — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:04:00 +0200

As summer is fast approaching, the weather has been really nice lately in Paris. The sun is shining, temperatures are fairly high and people are looking for terraces where to chill out while having something to drink or to eat.

The Hotel de Noailles would be happy to welcome you in its cute patio. There is no doubt you will enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of the place. The fact that it is interior and the wonderful plants will make you forget about the stress of big cities. If you don’t trust us, come and try it!

Have breakfast between 7 am to 11 am or take a drink (soft or alcohol, hot or chilled, that’s up to you!) served by our devoted staff. You could even order some exquisite sushis if you feel hungry… The tranquillity of the place will do the rest. See you soon at the patio of the Hotel de Noailles!

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Original Pictures of Paris

Hôtel de Noailles — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:34:00 +0200

Everybody agrees on that: Paris is a wonderful city. That is the reason why millions of tourists take so many pictures of the city every year, just to bring a piece of it back to their country. Taking nice pictures is far more difficult and the difference between what we actually see and the final result we get on the photograph is quite often disappointing.

Not for everybody! Serge Ramelli, a talented French photographer, does very well as he manages to go further to the reality. The original result is obtained through a method called “double exposure”. Various photographs of the same spot are taken at different points of the day. The result is a chimerical Paris overwhelmed by a supernatural light and threatening clouds.

Serge Ramelli’s pictures were exhibited at the Hotel de Noailles last May and it was quite a success. If you are tired of your own pictures and want to hang a beautiful memory of Paris in your living room, Serge Ramelli’s work is displayed on his website and stands there at your disposal… Anyway, the exhibition was astonishing and people really enjoyed it!

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Restaurant "Le Versance"

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:18:00 +0200

Located closed to Place de la Bourse, a few minutes walking distance from the Hotel de Noailles, the restaurant "Le Versance" welcomes you in a elegant and warm place with a sophisticated cooking for business occasions or between friends.

The chef, Samuel Cavagnis, offers you a high standard and original French cuisine dishes such as : Foie gras on the plancha and its crumble, melted rabbit thigh with Espelette spices and lemon, polenta with mushroom oil or raspberry and chocolate duo, carambar and frozen yogurt.

A magical place to taste an exquisite cuisine, so sit-down and take the time to taste the wonderful food whether you...

A luxurious yet simple place, with an attention paid to detail.

Le Versance
16, rue Feydeau
75002 Paris

Lunch menu : 32 € (2 dishes) / 38 € (3 dishes) with a glass of wine

Website

Turner and the Masters

Hôtel de Noailles — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:21:00 +0200

The British landscapist J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) was highly unusual in that he responded to the works of the old Masters and his contemporaries throughout his lengthy career. Driven by a powerful ambition, he broadened his fields of investigation: topographic watercolours, seascapes, classical landscapes, fantastic landscapes, genre scenes and history paintings.

As Turner himself wished, the exhibition will compare one of his most complex masterpieces, The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire with two of Claude Lorrain’s magnificent visions which inspired it : Sunset at sea and Le Débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse.

By deliberately engaging with other painters, Turner developed his dazzling freedom to paint which reached its apogee in the last decade of his career. “Turner and the Masters” is an illustrated demonstration of the way Turner constructed his remarkable vision throughout his long career (a hundred paintings and graphic works from major British and American collections, the Louvre, the Prado and the Tate Britain).

Galeries Nationales Grand Palais
24 February - 24 May 2010
informations and tickets : www.rmn.fr

"The Fashion sees red" at the Galeries Lafayette

Hôtel de Noailles — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:57:00 +0200

Special edition from the 24th March to 8th May at the Galeries Lafayette !

6 pure Galeries Lafayette Weeks...!

Program :

200 red exclusive pieces just created for the occasion
Special events to understand the fashion
"Space for Fantasy", a very creative exhibition at the "Gallery from the Gallery"

Does it surprise you ? That's normal, thats at the Galeries Lafayette and nowhere else !

Website

Look up Michelin guide restaurant listings on your iPhone !

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:47:00 +0100

The most famous of all gastronomic guides is now at your fingertips. With multi-criteria search options you can now choose from almost 32,000 restaurant listings. From the smallest neighborhood eateries through to the most renowned Michelin-starred restaurants...all featured in the 2009 MICHELIN guide !

Before confirming your reservation you can view location maps and access detailed profiles for each restaurant…contact details, ratings, opening hours, prices and, of course... the MICHELIN guide verdicts

As with the ViaMichelin website, you can now review the opinions of fellow diners via your iPhone, enabling you to benefit not only from professional recommendations but also the comments posted by fellow MICHELIN guide users.

By registering for My ViaMichelin, you can share your views directly from your iPhone before you’ve even left the restaurant

Website : www.viamichelin.co.uk

Edvard Munch or the "Anti-Scream"

Hôtel de Noailles — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:45:00 +0100

“Edvard Munch or the Anti-Scream” is a retrospective of Edvard Munch's work (around one hundred paintings and sketches) , the pioneering Expressionist painter best known for his celebrated painting “The Scream”.

With this exhibition from 19th February to 18th July 2010, the Pinacothèque de Paris is offering a fresh insight into the work of Edvard Munch, one of the most legendary and paradoxically least-known artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is the first time in 20 years that his work is being shown in Paris, and indeed in France; the Pinacothèque de Paris is therefore providing art lovers in France with a wonderful opportunity to discover the vision of this great artist, using a simple approach that allows all visitors to understand why he occupies such a significant place in art history.

La Pinacothèque de Paris
Open everyday from 10am to 6pm (9pm on wednesday)
28, Place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris

Full price : 10 €
Discount price : 8 €

www.pinacotheque.com

Laduree Sweet : a delectable artist's book gem

Hôtel de Noailles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:17:00 +0100

Reminiscent of the “legendary” macaroons in their elegant powder pastel boxes, this work of art will come set in a gift chest and wrapped in tissue paper.

Philippe Andrieu, Chief Pastry Chef at Ladurée, unveils 100 of the prestigious establishment’s recipes adapted for the general public.

It is an expression both of Ladurée excellence, where taste and refinement have always gone hand and hand, and the best the French “art de vivre” has to offer.

An introduction, “La Petite histoire de Ladurée (A brief history of Ladurée)” is the story of how this little bakery, created in 1862 by Louis Ernest Ladurée, came into its own and became a genuine institution of French gourmandise.

http://www.laduree.com

Monumenta 2010 - Christian Boltanski

Hôtel de Noailles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:33:00 +0100

Christian Boltanski, one of the key figures of French contemporary art, born in 1944, developped an international career in the 70s that has placed him in the ranks of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Individual memory and the passage of time are recurring themes in the work of Christian Boltanski, who has devised “Personnes” especially for the Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais. In this installation combining visual impact and sound, he tackles the question of destiny and the ineluctability of death.

Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 PARIS

http://www.monumenta.fr

Standard admission : 4 euros

The Dutch Golden Age - From Rembrandt to Vermeer

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:32:00 +0100

For its third season, the Pinacothèque de Paris, in association with Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, will present one of the most interesting periods in art history : the Dutch 17th century.

That period produced some of the most famous artists of all time, and above all the one whose name has remained one of the leading references : Rembrandt.

The exhibition will put on an outstanding ensemble of over 130 pieces, including about 60 paintings, 30 graphic works, 10 etchings as well as 10 objects to give an extremely visual representation of that period.

This exhibition wants above all to put forward Rembrandt’s singular role as the most influential artist of his time. He conferred upon his models, whether simple portraits or religious scenes, an unequalled dimension, a density, a human beauty that made of him the fore-runner of modernity, an analyst of souls and consciousness three centuries ahead of his contemporaries.

La Pinacothèque de Paris
28, Place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris
Exhibition until February 7, 2010
Full Rate: 10 euros
Web : http://www.pinacotheque.com

Italian New Year in Corso restaurant

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:56:00 +0100

Located close to Montmartre quarter (and so, not so far from the Hotel de Noailles), this italian restaurant, owned by the famous Costes brothers, offers you, for New Year's dinner, a great menu at only 75 € per person :

Glass of Veuve Clicquot champagne
Chestnut cream, crackling lentils, or, Antipasto di mare, or, Foie gras
Lobster fettucine, or, Marsala veal escalope with black truffles, or, Scallops and black truffles risotto
Grana cheese and balsamic
Christmas ice cake (meringue, chestnut ice, whipped cream) or Napolitan ice cake (meringue, strawberries ice, whipped cream)
Coffee

Corso
10, avenue Trudaine
75009 Paris
Tel : 0033 (0)1 48 78 55 81

Opera's Gallery

Hôtel de Noailles — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:55:00 +0200

The Opera Garnier was chosen by the Galeries Lafayette department store, as the ideal location, to offer an innovative shopping space around culture, art, dance. A concept which changes from the traditional museum boutique !
This gallery is divided into four amazing spaces where you can find :
"L'Enfance de l'Art": costumes, drawing pads, toys
"La Représentation" : trendy products
"Le Souvenir" : products around the Opera history
Multimedia : books, musics, DVD's

La Galerie de l'Opéra
8, rue Scribe
75009 Paris
Web : http://www.operadeparis.fr
Tel : 0 892 89 90 90

Uniqlo arriving in Paris !

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:33:00 +0200

The third international UNIQLO Flagship Store, after those of New York and London, has opened the 1st October, with a surface of 2 150 M², uniting in the heart of Paris the last innovations from UNIQLO in terms of products, architecture and service.
This famous japanese brand offers tee-shirts, jeans, cashmere pullover, with seven basics in seventeen colours.

Uniqlo 17 rue Scribe 75009 Paris
Open 10am to 8pm (except thursday 9pm)
Web : http://www.uniqlo.com

Pierre Hermé in the Galeries Lafayette

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:08:00 +0200

Chocolates, macaroons and shoes...Soon, the Galeries Lafayette shoppers will be able to reconcile those three "addictions" together in the same place. Pierre Hermé will be, from saturday 24th october, in the heart of this new space (6 000 m2) dedicated to the shoe. The famous pastry chef, who has already declined many department stores offers, has been seduced by the idea of mixing greed and pleasure shopping

Restaurant "Le Saut du Loup"

Hôtel de Noailles — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:41:00 +0200

A beautiful location ideally located in the heart of the Museum of Decorative Arts, with an amazing view of Louvre's Carrousel gardens, the Tuileries, Eiffel Tower and with a large terrace for the sunny days.

Pascal Bernier’s cuisine combines the great classics with more personal, gastronomic creations. With its contrasting savours, the menu surprises by its apparent simplicity, proposing dishes in which creativity and elegance rub shoulders with classicism… And it is this superb culinary cocktail which makes eating here such an unforgettable experience.

Le Saut du Loup is an ideal venue for a business lunch, a break between visiting the museum and shopping, an early evening cocktail, or, a dinner for two or with friends.

The restaurant provides a refined, relaxed, contemporary setting for people eager to discover a masterful blend of dishes and savours...

The interior design
Philippe Boiselier’s sober lines and colours play on contrasts between light and dark to modulate the restaurant’s spaces. The furniture is an integral part of this spatial construction. Ample black bench seats divide the space on both levels, and innovative use of materials such as Corian and reflected and indirect light softens the volumes and creates a warm atmosphere of discreet luxury.

Lunch menu : 20 to 26 €, on weekdays only (except national holidays)
Dinner : 40 € / 60 €
Weekend brunch: 21 €
Afternoon tea/coffee: 6 €, daily, from 3pm to 7pm

Le Saut du Loup
Open from 12pm to 2am
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Tel : +33 (0)1 42 25 49 55
http://www.lesautduloup.com/

Parisian Festivals

Hôtel de Noailles — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:59:00 +0200

Summertime is synonymous with theatre in public gardens, concerts in parks and big-screen cinema under the stars. Here is a quick overview of parisian summer festivals :

Festivals in the park with the family

Paris in summer is great for families. Festivals galore offer special events, workshops, games and shows, in the capitals parks and gardens.

The festival "Paris quartier d’été" also seeks to bring events to a public that would not normally go to concert or opera performances. So, from 15 July to 9 August, dance, music, theatre, circus, storytelling and other events take place in parks, gardens, on avenues, at monuments and other outdoor venues. For the 20th anniversary of the event, there will be 33 sites, 35 shows, 115 performances and 260 artists. Among the sites hosting events, families will enjoy the Palais-Royal gardens, the garden of the Musée du quai Branly, Saint-Eustache church, the park of Buttes-Chaumont and the Luxembourg gardens.

Some of the summer season’s top events include the festival Sous la plage, which will be held on 12 and 13 July at the port de Javel, a few minutes from the Eiffel Tower and on the lawns of the André-Citroën park. The settingis already a firm favourite with families who enjoy the water fountains where kids love to play and the expansive grassy areas, popular with everyone from tiny tots to adults.For its seventh edition, the festival offers as usual a happy mixture of family, trendy and unusual events. On the programme for Saturday, fun-based electro workshops, offbeat walks and musical embarkations. Sunday will see the highpoint of the festival: a huge dance with the emphasis on the music of Istanbul. Before the concert, from 6pm, adults and children will be able to practice the art of the Turkish tango and Oriental dancing.

Fans of classical music, vocal and instrumental, can attend the 9th edition of the European festival Jeunes Talents, from 10 to 30 July. The Hôtel de Soubise, in the Marais, will be staging outdoor concerts given by 53 young musicians from all over Europe and other parts of the world, from the major conservatoires.

SOUS LA PLAGE (Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July) Parc André-Citroën, Paris 15th http://www.souslaplageblog.com

JEUNES TALENTS (from 10 to 30 July) Archives nationales, 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 3rd Tel +33 (0)1 40 27 64 19 http://www.jeunes-talents.org

PARIS QUARTIER D’ÉTÉ (from 15 July to 9 August) Tel +33 (0)1 44 94 98 00 http://www.quartierdete.com

A summer music season

Music has the reputation for calming the spirit, and so you would expect it to have an even greater effect when played outdoors in parks and gardens. This is the idea of the summer season of music festivals in Paris, which feature music from all around the world.

One of the highpoints of summer is the Paris Jazz Festival, which takes place in the gardens of the Parc Floral, to the east of Paris, in the Bois de Vincennes.
The idea is to create different improvised venues within the park: a “Clarière des impros (Impros clearing)” will bring musicians and the public together for improvised workshops whilst the “Jardinophone (gardenophone)” proposes sound structures, world games, special events and instrument making workshops which question the relation between music and nature.

The Classique au vert is another key festival which takes place in the Parc floral every weekend from 1 August to 20 September. Performances take place at 4pm and this year the public will be able to discover Mozart’s Parisian years, the Paris waltz at Vienna, the spirit of the roaring twenties and even the cinema of Vladimir Cosma. There will also be special events linked to the concerts: treasure hunts, pre-concert meetings with a musicologist to gain a better understanding of the concert which follows, walks around the park with botanists and, after the performance, the possibility of meeting some of the performers.

Botany and classical music enthusiasts will also enjoy the 10th edition of the festival Solistes aux serres d’Auteuil. The first part of the festival was held in June and will be followed by a second part from 28 August to 13 September in the wonderful setting of the Auteuil hothouses: these glass and metal structures are surrounded by a richly planted garden. This popular series of concerts with different soloists, mainly pianists, are accessible to all thanks to the moderate cost of tickets (free for children).

The festival Jazz à la Villette attracts the big names in blues, jazz, but also electro and hip-hop from 1 to 13 September. Some 200 artists and 50 groups are expected for this event at the big La Villette park in the north of Paris. Among the line-up: Hank Jones, Ahmad Jamal, Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Seun Kuti, Amadou et Mariam, De La Soul, Yael Naim, John Zorn, etc.

PARIS JAZZ FESTIVAL (from 6 June to 26 July) Parc floral, esplanade Saint-Louis (in front of the Château de Vincennes), bois de Vincennes, Paris 12th http://www.parisjazzfestival2009.net

SOLISTES AUX SERRES D’AUTEUIL (second part: from 28 August to 13 September) Jardin des serres d’Auteuil, pavillon des Azalées, 1 av Gordon-Bennett, Paris 16th Tel +33 (0)1 46 32 02 26 http://www.ars-mobilis.com

JAZZ À LA VILLETTE (from 1 to 13 September) Parc de la Villette, Paris 19th Tel +33 (0)1 44 84 44 84 http://www.jazzalavillette.com

CLASSIQUE AU VERT (from 1 August to 20 September) Parc floral, esplanade Saint-Louis (in front of the Château de Vincennes), bois de Vincennes, Paris 12th Tel +33 (0)1 45 43 81 18 http://www.classiqueauvert2009.com

“Cinema paradiso” in Paris

Not to be forgotten amongst the plethora of summer festivals are the outdoor big-screen cinema evenings offered with two major festivals.

The festival Cinéma en plein air takes place in the Parc de la Villette. A huge inflatable screen is installed on the grassy Prairie du Triangle and the public gather to watch films screened daily, from nightfall. Free to the public, each screening gathers hundreds of film buffs who either sit on the grass or hire a deckchair (6.50 euros). This year, the theme of the New World is the common thread which runs through the programme. From 15 July to 16 August, the public will discover great films like “Pirates of the Caribbean” by Gore Verbinski, “Into the Wild”, by Sean Penn, “Broken Flowers”, by Jim Jarmush, “Brokeback Mountain”, by Ang Lee, “Golden Door”, by Emanuele Crialese, “Amistad”, by Steven Spielberg, etc.

The festival Cinéma au clair de lune is celebrating its ninth edition. The particularity of this event, which will take place from 5 to 23 August, is its nomadic character. Every evening, films are shown in a different district of the capital. This year, in places as diverse as the place des Vosges, the Seine quayside and the place des Fêtes, spectators will (re)discover “Boudu sauvé des eaux”, the animation thriller “Renaissance” and films by Claude Berri such as the famous “Tchao pantin”.

CINÉMA EN PLEIN AIR (from 5 to 23 August) Prairie du triangle, parc de la Villette, Paris 19th Tel +33 (0)1 40 03 75 75 http://www.villette.com

CINÉMA AU CLAIR DE LUNE (from 15 July to 16 August) In different districts of Paris http://www.forumdesimages.fr

Opening of the "Alain Ducasse Cooking School" in Paris, from 11th May you are the chef !

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:36:00 +0200

Let one of the chefs at the Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in Paris teach you the difference while they lead you by the hand to the market and show you what is the best produce that day, before you return to the kitchen to cook it. “One of the important points about some of our courses is that you can honestly be completely useless in the kitchen,” says Emanuelle Perrier, director of public relations for the new cooking school, which opens on Monday, “and still come here and have a good time with us.”

Welcome encouragement to those who might be intimidated by the idea of a cooking class in Paris’s posh 16th arrondissement, headed by a famous French chef known - among other things - for being the first to have owned three three-star-ranking restaurants in three different countries simultaneously. But in his new 700 square-metre space Ducasse wants the atmosphere to be relaxed. “It’s a place to get together in for the pleasure of preparing and discovering food,” he told recently.

Ducasse is also catering to all different types of food-lovers. There are ten different courses, from “Traditional cuisine” to “Escapist cuisine, to “Gourmet cuisine”, with classes for half-a-day or a full day (depending on the subject.) There are two levels : experienced and inexperienced. There are also English-speaking chefs for English-only-speaking students.

Actually, you can find several cooking schools in Paris but Ducasse’s new one offers quite a diversity of subjects : “We have everything from a class for six to 11-year-olds to a class on the gourmet cuisine of Alain Ducasse”.

Not that their mission is to focus on the well-known chef’s style : “Many cooking schools just teach their own style", "we will do that but we will also teach other cuisines from other cultures”. The school also offers wine-appreciation and pastry-making classes.

L'Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse 64 rue du Ranelagh 75016 PARIS

Tel : +33 (0)1 44 90 91 00

Fax : +33 (0)1 44 24 43 81

Email : ecole@alain-ducasse.com

Website : http://www.ecolecuisine-alainducasse.com

Dinner in the sky of Paris

Hôtel de Noailles — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:19:00 +0200

A private event, a "premiere" in Paris .... : a dinner in the air, at 50 meters high, vith a view on Concorde place, Louvre museum and Champs-Elysees avenue.

After Budapest, Bruxelles, Dubaï, London or Las Vegas, the magazin "Cuisine Créative", will organize "Dinner in the Sky" from the 11th to the 15th September 2009 in the Tuileries gardens.

At the total, 550 meals of 22 guests each will be commercialized, of whom 100 euros per meal will be for the benefit of the Federation of Rare Diseases.

Every dinner will be cooked by a different french famous chef : Alain Passard (L’Arpège), Marc Veyrat ( L’Auberge de L’Eridan), Pierre Gagnaire (Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire), Yannick Alléno (Hôtel Meurice), Frédéric Anton (Pré-Catelan), Guy Martin (Le Grand Véfour), Georges Blanc (Restaurant Georges Blanc), Patrick Bertron (Relais Bernard Loiseau), Thierry Marx (Hôtel Cordeillan-Bages), Christian Sinicropi (Hôtel Martinez) et Michel Roth (Ritz Paris) will meet successively the challenge. The final dinner will be cooked by the Elysee chef. Four tables of 22 guests will be dedicated too, to an extraordinary cocktails tasting prepared by the Hemingway Bar (Ritz Hôtel) and directed by Colin Field (world's best barman).

You can book your place only on : http://www.cuisinecreative.com Rates from 846 à 1400 euros per person