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Multi-Floor Mansion for Offices and Showrooms in Paris 16th.

1,135 m²
12217 sq ft
paris
75116
on request
brief-based
showroom
3 use cases
city
Paris
area
1135 sqm
day rate
on request
postcode
75116
use cases
showroom presentation · photo shoot · video production
included
wc · whitebox minimal · cargo entrance

about this space

This 1,135-square-meter mansion is located at 8 Rue Cimarosa in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The property is distributed across five floors, including a basement, a ground floor with street access, and three additional stories. Situated between Place de l'Étoile and Place du Trocadéro, the building is categorized for use as an office, gallery, showroom, or for photography and filming events. The interior features a white-box minimal design and is equipped with heating and water closet facilities. For accessibility and logistics, the layout provides multiple entrances and a dedicated cargo entrance. With a total area of approximately 12,217 square feet, the multi-level structure offers a unique environment suitable for various commercial or creative requirements in a professional setting. All mentioned amenities, including the ground-floor street position and internal utilities, are available to support operational needs.

what's included

  • wc
  • whitebox minimal
  • cargo entrance
  • multiple entrances
  • heating
  • ground floor street

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 1135 sqm floor plan and amenities for Multi-Floor Mansion for Offices and Showrooms in Paris 16th, then note the window you want in Paris. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 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 works as a full-season showroom because 1,135 sqm across five floors lets you split collections by division rather than cramming everything into one room. Brands running seasonal showroom rental in mansions like this typically hold womenswear on the first floor, accessories and pre-collection on the second, and keep the third for private appointments and archive reference. The cargo entrance means rail deliveries and crate returns never cross the guest route, which is the single biggest operational advantage over a single-floor showroom in the 16th.

Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Previews

Strong fit for back-to-back wholesale appointments, mainly because the multiple entrances allow you to stagger arrivals so competing accounts never meet in the stairwell. In practice you can run four to six simultaneous appointment rooms across the upper floors with 15 to 20 minute overlaps, each with its own rail set and seating. The white-box finish keeps focus on the product, and the Étoile to Trocadéro position puts buyers within a five minute walk of The Peninsula, Majestic and Radisson Blu Le Dokhan's for the same-day schedules that define a buyer preview week.

Press Day and Media Preview

A credible press day venue at scale, since the ground floor with direct street access handles arrivals and check-in while the upper floors carry the actual collection presentation. We would plan 120 to 200 journalists and stylists across a rolling day rather than a single seated moment, using the basement for coats, catering staging and press kit stock. If you want the floor sequencing and look-book routing planned properly, our concept and direction team maps guest flow before build starts so no journalist doubles back on themselves.

Sample Sale

Operationally this is one of the better sample sale spaces in the arrondissement because the ground-floor street position gives you a queue and entry point while the upper floors absorb volume. A workable model is till and packing on the ground floor, womenswear on the first, menswear and accessories above, with fitting bays built into the second floor. The cargo entrance takes pallet restock during trading hours, and the basement holds reserve stock so the shop floor never looks picked over. Plan staffing for 250 to 400 shoppers on site at peak.

Product Launch

Works well for a launch that needs a narrative build rather than a single room, because five floors let you sequence discovery, hero product, and hospitality as separate chapters. In practice the ground floor handles arrivals and press wall, one upper floor carries the product reveal, and a second holds bar and seating for 150 to 250 guests. Heating is in place, so autumn and winter launch dates are viable without temporary climate hire. The nine hotels within 400 m make international guest logistics straightforward.

Brand Activation and Temporary Retail

This suits a multi-room brand activation better than a straight retail pop-up, given the residential 16th location generates appointment and invitation traffic rather than high passing footfall. What makes it work is the white-box interior, which takes a full branded fit-out with no existing finish to disguise or protect. Brands typically dress the ground floor as the public-facing pop-up concept and reserve the upper floors for VIP, styling and clienteling. If the format is new to your team, see how how our process works before locking dates.

Photo Shoot and Editorial Production

Genuinely strong for editorial shoots because the building is already categorised for photography and filming, so you are not negotiating permission after the fact. Five floors give a crew multiple set-ups in one day, with the white-box rooms as clean backdrops and the mansion architecture available where you want period detail. The cargo entrance takes grip, lighting and wardrobe trucking without carrying kit through the front door, and the basement doubles as hair, make-up and holding for a crew of 20 to 30.

E-commerce and Lookbook Studio

A practical content studio for high-volume e-commerce shoots, because you can run two or three simultaneous stills bays on separate floors with a dedicated steaming and wardrobe room next door. Teams shooting 80 to 150 SKUs a day typically set cyc-style white walls on one floor and keep the upper level for on-figure and detail work. Bring your own lighting as this is a raw white-box rather than a fitted studio, and note that sample logistics move cleanly through the cargo entrance.

Video Production and Campaign Film

Viable for campaign film because 1,135 sqm over five floors gives you shooting space, a separate base camp and a client viewing room without renting a second location. Multiple entrances let talent and crew arrive separately, and the basement takes generators, cable runs and catering out of frame. Sound is the one thing to test, since a mansion shell with hard surfaces will need blankets or treatment for dialogue. Compare it against other spaces in Paris if you need higher ceilings for a single large set.

Art Exhibition or Gallery Showing

The building is explicitly categorised for gallery use and the white-box minimal interior is already the correct condition for hanging work. Five floors let you curate as a route with distinct rooms per artist or series, which suits brand-adjacent exhibitions and archive showings better than one open hall. The cargo entrance handles crated works and plinths, and the ground-floor street entrance gives you a controlled public opening. Expect comfortable capacity of around 200 for a vernissage spread across floors.

Influencer Event and Content Day

Works for a creator event because you can build four or five distinct content sets on separate floors and rotate small groups through them on a timed schedule. In practice 40 to 60 creators per session is the number that keeps sets clear enough to shoot in, with the ground floor as arrival, gifting and refreshment. The nearby cafes and Potel et Chabot at 29 m simplify catering, and the residential 16th setting keeps the event feeling private rather than public-facing.

Creative Workshop and Masterclass

Suited to workshops and masterclasses that run as parallel sessions, since separate floors mean three or four groups of 20 to 30 can work simultaneously without noise bleed. WC facilities and heating cover the basics for full-day programmes, and the white-box rooms take trestle layouts, screens and material stations easily. The constraint worth naming is that nothing is pre-fitted, so tables, seating and AV are a hire line item on every workshop budget for this building.

Networking and Corporate Reception

Adequate to strong for industry networking, with the caveat that the space reads best as several connected reception rooms rather than one large hall. We would plan 150 to 250 standing guests spread over the ground and first two floors, with bar stations on each level so circulation does not bottleneck at the stairs. The Étoile and Trocadéro position is easy for guests arriving by car or from the Champs-Élysées hotel cluster, which matters for evening fashion week schedules.

use cases

showroom presentationphoto shootvideo productioncreative workshopcorporate event

location

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paris · 75116·48.8684° · 2.2899°

what's around

4 stores within 600 m, incl. Nicolas, Copy-Top, Mathilde ma Muse

brands nearby

NicolasCopy-TopMathilde ma MuseFranprixZara HomeAMPMRadisson BluAuréa BautistaBio C' Bon
jewellery & watches
1
beauty
1
design & interiors
2
culture
1
hotels
10
cafés
12
restaurants & bars
24
other retail
9
  • Potel et Chabot30 m
  • Hôtel Pastel60 m
  • Nicolas60 m
  • Le Corner70 m
  • Le Corona Impérial80 m
  • Le Village Kleber90 m

the neighbourhood

Luxury maisons, jewellery houses, private art dealers and the discreet corporate side of French fashion occupy the streets between Étoile and Trocadéro, and Rue Cimarosa sits directly inside that working ecosystem. Within a few minutes on foot you have press and PR offices tucked into Haussmannian upper floors around Rue de Longchamp and Avenue Kléber, couture ateliers and archive storage that never advertise themselves, and the kind of hôtel particulier addresses that heritage brands use for board meetings in the morning and buyer appointments in the afternoon. Baccarat's gallery and museum on Place des États-Unis anchors the decorative arts presence, while design and interiors names including Zara Home and AMPM sit up towards Victor Hugo. Potel et Chabot, one of the most used luxury caterers in Paris, is quite literally next door at 29 metres, which tells you something about who books events on this block. In our experience placing brands into spaces in Paris, this pocket of the 16th is where jewellery, watches, leather goods, beauty and quiet luxury ready to wear consistently choose to hold showroom weeks rather than compete for attention elsewhere.

Brands come here because they want control over who enters, and that is genuinely hard to achieve in the Marais or on Rue Saint Honoré. The 3rd and 4th arrondissements deliver footfall and street energy but you pay for both in noise, tourist volume and neighbours who dilute your presentation. Avenue Montaigne and the Golden Triangle carry the prestige but pricing per square metre is punishing and availability during fashion week evaporates eighteen months out. The 16th gives you multiple floors of usable showroom space at a rate that would buy you a single narrow retail unit closer to Montaigne, plus a level of privacy that suits invite-only formats, press days and confidential collection previews. Logistics are the other reason teams commit here: Charles de Gaulle Étoile puts métro lines 1, 2 and 6 plus RER A within walking distance, Boissière on line 6 is closer still, and the hotel cluster is unusually dense for a residential arrondissement, with The Peninsula, Radisson Blu Le Dokhan's, Majestic and Hôtel Victor Hugo all inside a short walk. What the area does not give you is passing discovery. Nobody stumbles onto Rue Cimarosa. If your format depends on strangers walking in, our venue sourcing team would point you towards the 1st, 2nd or 11th instead.

Arriving on Rue Cimarosa feels closer to a private appointment than a retail visit, which is precisely why press days work well here. The street is narrow, quiet and residential in tone, with office and showroom use folded into the buildings rather than shouted from the façade. Mornings bring residents, school runs and staff arriving at nearby company offices, with a steady flow into Le Corona Impérial and Chez Cezanne for coffee. Lunch is the busiest window, driven by the surrounding brasseries and by the sheer density of restaurants in the immediate radius, so schedule buyer slots around it rather than through it. By late afternoon the street goes calm again, which suits evening previews and filming. The cargo entrance and multiple access points on this building matter more than they sound: they let you run a build crew and a guest arrival at the same time without collision, something we plan for routinely as part of production and build. Honest limitation: this is not a location for high-volume temporary retail, sample sales aimed at the public, or any pop-up shop that needs street visibility to convert. Footfall here is qualified, not plentiful, and any brand relying on walk-ins will be disappointed by the numbers.

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • Boissièremetro149 m · 2 min
  • Victor Hugometro332 m · 4 min
  • Klébermetro451 m · 6 min
  • Iénametro503 m · 6 min
  • Trocadérometro626 m · 8 min
  • Argentinemetro774 m · 10 min

street activity

high footfall.

22 places within 200 m · 13 stores · 36 cafés and restaurants

within 200 m
22
within 400 m
60
within 600 m
60

the neighbourhood

The Avenue Marceau is a major street in western Paris, France. It runs from Place Charles de Gaulle 900 meters south-south-east to Avenue du Président-Wilson, near the Place de l'Alma on the Seine. Primarily an upscale residential street, the Avenue is the boundary between the Champs-Élysées neighborhood in the 8th Arrondissement and the Chaillot neighborhood in the 16th.The Avenue is named after General François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), a commander in the French Revolutionary Wars.

  • Embassy of Argentina, Paris · 23 m
  • Boissière station · 115 m
  • 1980 Paris synagogue bombing · 133 m
  • Union Libérale Israélite de France · 141 m
  • Carlingue · 167 m

frequently asked

Yes, the ground floor of 8 Rue Cimarosa has direct street access and can be used as a temporary retail or pop-up shop environment, though the building is categorised primarily for office, gallery, showroom and filming use. Because the mansion runs across five floors totalling 1,135 sqm, most brands who rent it treat the ground floor as the public-facing pop-up and use the upper stories for buyer appointments, styling and stock. In our experience handling bookings in the Paris 16th, a residential-professional address like this suits invitation-led or appointment-led retail better than high-footfall walk-in trade. If your brief is a pure consumer pop-up with heavy street traffic, tell us and we will benchmark this address against alternatives when you enquire.

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edition
vol. iv · ss27
type
cormorant · plex mono
finish
gold foil 871c