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The VIP Lounge

The Nave: This central area in the Grand Palais has been at the centre of the cultural and social life of the French capital for over a century. With Europe’s biggest glass roof, the Nave has been entirely restored and offers 145,000 sq.ft of magnificent, naturally lit floor space.
The Fine Arts Staircase: With its curves and coils, the Fine Arts Staircase is a generous and inviting venue where guests entering from the avenue Winston-Churchill can receive a customised welcome and ushered through to the Nave.
The Paddock: Located in the Nave, facing the entrance, the paddock owes its name to the horse shows that were once organised there. With its Great Staircase, it offers a sumptuous setting for evening receptions, dinners and congresses…
The Balcony of Honour: This modular area has a magnificent full view over the Nave and can be tailored to create a very personal atmosphere for your events.
The digital projection room: With a capacity of 104 seats, the projection room is all-digital.

The Clock Balcony: An area of 3,750 sq. ft , the clock balcony faces the great staircase and offers perhaps the finest view of the Nave.
The South-east Gallery: Covering an area of around 2,500 sq.ft, this first floor gallery offers tremendous potential for programming public events. Availble in 2011.
The VIP Lounge: A superb facility that is paradoxically a well-kept secret, the VIP Lounge is right in the heart of the Grand Palais. It offers an area of 12,800 square feet under a glass roof. Available during the second semester of 2011.

The Grand Palais' flagship project is to reinvent, in the heart of Monument, a remarkable, yet neglected area, the VIP Lounge (Salon d'honneur), and make it accessible again from the Nave. Available during the second semester 2010.

See the media:The prestigious VIP Lounge in 1900

The prestigious VIP Lounge in 1900 © CNAM-bibliothèque - cote 4° Xae 69.2

A well-kept secret

Located in the heart of the Grand Palais, the VIP Lounge is a magnificent area of 12,800 sq. ft., covered by a glass roof at a height of 26 feet. Though, since the construction of the Grand Palais in 1900, this sumptuous area has been the choice setting for numerous events, it is little known.
The VIP Lounge used to be accessible from the Nave via the Great Staircase. Since the Palais de la Découverte took up its permanent home in the Palais d'Antin in 1940, this passage has been bricked up, cutting off the original east-west axis.

A flagship project

Restoring the area's former splendour, equipping it to make it modular and reopening the access from the Nave are essential to the renaissance of the Grand Palais. Restoring the VIP Lounge as a central feature at the heart of the Grand Palais will significantly enlarge the areas available for events in the building.

The VIP Lounge has a twofold vocation.
Nothing less than an extension of the Nave it will offer additional exhibition areas and, as from 2011, enable the public to rediscover the pleasure of visiting the whole of the building, a tour that has been impossible since 1937!
Th VIP Lounge will be available as a stand-alone facility to host receptions, exhibitions, symposia or AGMs.

Technical information

Work launched in 2009. The area should be operational during the second semester 2011.

The area is fully modular.
Capacity: 700 standing / Seated for dinner 450

Contact

location.espaces@rmngp.fr

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