Modern 150 sqm Meeting Space with Rooftop in Paris 16th.
about this space
This 150-square-meter commercial space is situated on Rue Jean Giraudoux in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Located on an upper floor, the modern property is categorized for use as a conference center, event venue, gallery, meeting space, office, photo studio, or showroom. The layout includes a living space and an outdoor terrace. The interior is equipped with functional amenities including a complete kitchen, a counter, and various furniture pieces. Technical facilities include high-speed wifi, office equipment, heating, and integrated lighting. The property also features a water closet and multiple entrances for accessibility. This versatile 1,615-square-foot space is designed to accommodate seminars, workshops, and corporate meetings. All facilities are provided to support professional operational requirements in a neutral and modern environment.
the fwv take
Take this Rue Jean Giraudoux address as an appointment-led fashion showroom and press day venue for Paris market week, not as a walk-in temporary retail unit, because the 150 sqm sits on an upper floor of a residential building already fitted with a complete kitchen, a counter and working office equipment, which is exactly the kit a five person team needs to write orders for two weeks without trucking in infrastructure.
What makes this address work for a market run is the outdoor terrace opening straight off the main living space, giving you an open-air reception that absorbs the evening cocktail overflow at 6pm when the buyer schedule ends and the editors arrive, plus a daylight exterior backdrop for content capture without moving the collection out of the building.
Aesthetically it rewards independent and mid-scale contemporary labels with a real wholesale book, ready to wear, tailoring, knitwear, fine jewellery or fragrance, working in a restrained product-forward register, and we would be honest that a heritage maison wanting boiserie, parquet and 400 sqm of simultaneous VIP hospitality should be looking at larger spaces in Paris around Vendôme instead.
In our experience the late September and early March womenswear windows go four to five months out, and the operational quirk to settle before you enquire is lift internal dimensions against your rail and crate sizes, since building quiet hours dictate delivery slots here, a sequencing question our activation timeline resolves quickly.
what's included
- lighting
- living space
- wc
- multiple entrances
- complete kitchen
- counter
- furniture
- heating
- office equipment
- wifi
- terrace
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how to book this space
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Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 150 sqm floor plan and amenities for Modern 150 sqm Meeting Space with Rooftop in Paris 16th, then note the window you want in Paris. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
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Send the brief
Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. Pricing on this space is quoted on request.
- 03
Get availability and a quote
We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Paris.
- 04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
- 05
Build and open
Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Paris.
activation ideas
SS/AW Seasonal Showroom
This is the strongest use of the address, because 150 sqm of neutral furnished floor plus a counter and complete kitchen lets a small team run a full Paris market week without importing infrastructure. Brands taking spaces like this for a season typically set 8 to 12 rails along the perimeter, keep a seated order table central and hold the terrace back for end of day hospitality. Book it alongside other spaces in Paris if you need a second sales floor.
Buyer Appointments
The space works well for back to back wholesale appointments because six metro stations sit within a seven minute walk, with Kléber at four minutes and George V at five, which matters when buyers are moving between Chaillot and the Marais on a fixed schedule. In practice the counter handles check-in and order writing without requiring additional furniture, and the multiple entrances let one appointment leave while the next arrives. Plan two buyer groups at a time comfortably, three at a push.
Press Day / Media Preview
A credible press day venue for 30 to 60 editors and stylists across a rolling half day, largely because the terrace gives you a daylight break-out space that a hotel function room cannot match. What makes this work for press specifically is the split between a dressed collection wall inside and an informal terrace corner for one to one conversations. The complete kitchen removes any catering minimum, so you control the food spend and the timings entirely.
Sample Sale / Trunk Show
This performs as an invitation-led sample sale space rather than a walk-in one, since the unit sits on an upper floor with no shopfront, so timed entry slots emailed to your client list are the format that works here. The counter becomes a natural checkout, the second entrance keeps a queue away from the main guest route, and the kitchen supports staff across a multi-day sale. We can supply terminals, till setup and floor teams through retail staffing.
Product Launch
Well suited to a launch for 80 to 120 invited guests, because the 16th arrondissement address near Place des États-Unis and the Champs-Élysées reads as intentional on an invitation. Brands running launches in spaces like this usually stage the product moment inside under the integrated lighting, then move guests to the terrace once speeches finish. The building is residential, so agree evening cut-off times and any speaker or DJ rig with us in advance of confirming your date.
Influencer Event
The terrace is what earns this booking for influencer programming, because it gives creators an open-air backdrop with genuine daylight instead of another windowless white room. Sixty to eighty guests across a two hour drop-in window is the comfortable number, with the living space handling gifting stations and the counter working as a personalisation point. Pair the venue with seeding and creator booking through our influencer marketing team to fill the slots properly.
E-commerce and Editorial Shoot
Categorised for photo studio use and it holds up as a content studio, mainly because the living space reads as a real interior on camera while the terrace adds an exterior look inside the same 1,615 square foot booking. Multiple entrances make crew and kit movement workable on an upper floor, which is usually the detail that decides a shoot for us. Confirm lift internal dimensions before you commit to large stands or oversized crates.
Workshop or Masterclass
This was built for seminars and workshops, so the format needs no adaptation at all. Plan 40 to 60 seated for a masterclass or 20 to 30 around tables for a hands-on creative workshop, with the office equipment covering printed materials and the high-speed wifi handling any hybrid stream. The complete kitchen means you can run coffee, lunch and an afternoon break in house, and the terrace gives attendees somewhere to reset between sessions.
Networking Event / Cocktail Reception
Works well for an evening reception, with the terrace absorbing overflow so guests are not compressed into a single room. The stated capacity of 160 standing is achievable, though 100 to 120 is the number we would plan to once bar station and coat provision are factored into a 150 sqm footprint. Embassies and hotels within 250 metres mean visiting clients are often already in the neighbourhood, which lifts attendance rates on a weekday evening.
use cases
location
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Klébermetro330 m · 4 min
- George Vmetro410 m · 5 min
- Boissièremetro539 m · 7 min
- Charles de Gaulle — Étoilemetro556 m · 7 min
- Iénametro574 m · 7 min
- Alma-Marceaumetro580 m · 7 min
the neighbourhood
The Avenue d'Iéna is a tree-lined avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, running from the Trocadéro to the Place de l'Étoile. Passing through the Place d'Iéna, the Place de l'Amiral de Grasse, the Place de l'Uruguay and the Place Richard de Coudenhove Kalergi on the way. It is named after the neighbouring bridge across the Seine, the Pont d'Iéna. It has a length of 1,150 metres (0.71 mi) and an average width of 35 metres (115 ft).
- Majestic Hôtel-Spa · 230 m
- Place des États-Unis · 238 m
- La Clef Champs-Élysées Paris · 241 m
- Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot · 243 m
- List of ambassadors of Bahrain to France · 253 m
frequently asked
Yes, this 150 sqm space on Rue Jean Giraudoux is available for pop-up shops, but it performs as an appointment-led or invitation-led pop-up rather than a walk-in one. It sits on an upper floor in a residential stretch of the 16th arrondissement, so there is no shopfront and no passing footfall to convert. In our experience handling bookings at addresses like this, brands who succeed here drive their own audience through press lists, client CRM and paid social, then use the counter and complete kitchen to run a hosted retail experience. If your priority is street visibility for a temporary retail moment, tell us in your brief and we will cross-check ground floor alternatives among spaces in Paris
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits an independent or mid-market fashion brand with a 5 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 10 years of trading, and an established wholesale book or a DTC business doing seven figures. At 150 sqm across a living space plus terrace on an upper floor, it holds a working fashion showroom with 8 to 12 rail positions, a seated buyer area, and a press corner without feeling underfilled. The complete kitchen, counter, wifi and office equipment mean a small team can run a full market week without bringing in infrastructure. Where we see mismatches is when a first-season designer with no appointment book takes 150 sqm in the 16th and pays for adjacency they cannot yet convert, or when a heritage house needing 400 sqm for a full collection preview and simultaneous VIP hospitality finds the floorplate limiting. Brands in that upper bracket are usually better served by larger spaces in Paris around Place Vendôme or the Marais.
Aesthetic Fit
A clean, contemporary, quietly premium visual identity works here. The interior is neutral and modern with integrated lighting and existing furniture, which suits ready to wear, tailoring, knitwear, leather goods, fine jewellery, eyewear, fragrance and modern skincare. Brands built on restraint, natural light and product-forward merchandising get the most from it, because the room does not compete with the collection and the terrace adds a soft social layer for cocktail moments. What does not work is a loud streetwear or subculture-led brand needing raw concrete, graffiti-friendly walls or a club atmosphere, and equally an ornate heritage couture identity needing boiserie, parquet and gilded period detail. Heavy structural builds are also a poor match given the upper floor access, so treat this as a dressing and styling exercise rather than a full branded store design project.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a fashion week showroom for wholesale appointments, since the layout gives you a rail floor, a seated buyer table and a kitchen for hospitality across a two week market. Second is a press day or collection preview, helped by six metro stations within a seven minute walk and Champs-Élysées proximity that editors and stylists will accept without argument. Third is an invitation-only cocktail reception or influencer event, where the outdoor terrace does the work that a windowless hotel function room cannot. Fourth is content studio and ecommerce shoot use, given integrated lighting, multiple entrances for crew and kit, and a living space that reads as a real interior on camera. Fifth is a trunk show or private showroom sale to an existing client list, supported by the counter for checkout. Sixth is a workshop, masterclass or team offsite, the space's original brief. Least suited is a public-footfall pop-up shop, because an upper floor in a residential arrondissement gives no walk-in traffic and needs paid or owned audience driven in.
Budget Signal
Expect upper-mid market pricing for Paris short-term commercial space, below prime ground floor retail on Avenue Montaigne or Rue Saint-Honoré but above a generic meeting room or co-working event suite. The value case is straightforward: you are paying for a credible 16th arrondissement address, a genuinely furnished and serviced 150 sqm, and a terrace, rather than for shopfront visibility you would not use anyway. Compared with a hotel event space nearby you avoid mandatory catering minimums and gain a private, brandable environment; compared with a shared pop-up format you gain exclusivity and control over your appointment calendar. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this tier is a brand consolidating showroom, press day and shoot into one booking, which is worth modelling in the budget calculator before you enquire.
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