Superb Mansion in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
tl;dr
- Space
- A 1,200 sqm (12,917 sq ft) private mansion for hire at 44 rue du Four in Saint Germain des Prés, Paris 6th arrondissement, arranged as a multi room hôtel particulier with a private terrace and period residential proportions rather than a single open floorplate.
- Best For
- Strongest fit for wholesale showroom and buyer preview seasons with multiple simultaneous appointment rooms, followed by press days and collection previews, product launches with seated presentation, cocktail receptions and influencer dinners using the terrace, and corporate or networking events for up to roughly 1,250 guests across the building. Available to book by the day or by the week.
- Standout Features
- 1,200 sqm across a full mansion, giving enough separate rooms to run buyer appointments, a press area and a VIP salon at the same time without curtaining a single hall. A private outdoor terrace for receptions and smoking guests, direct street frontage on rue du Four for signage and arrivals, and a footprint rated for around 1,250 people make this one of the largest private houses for rent inside the 6th. Layout and load in access vetted by Fashion Week Venues.
- Location
- Two minutes on foot from Métro Saint Sulpice and Mabillon (line 4 and line 10), five minutes from Saint Germain des Prés and eight minutes from Sèvres Babylone and Le Bon Marché, postcode 75006. The immediate street is dense luxury retail with Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani and Van Cleef & Arpels within 250 metres, so guests arrive through a recognised fashion corridor and crews can stage on a working commercial street; enquire early because kerbside loading windows are tightly controlled here.
- Availability
- Minimum one day rental, with day rate on request and brief based pricing set against guest numbers, build complexity and duration. Book eight to twelve weeks ahead for standard dates and four to six months ahead for Paris Fashion Week in late February and late September, when mansions of this scale in the 6th typically go under option before they are publicly listed.
- How to Book
- Send your dates, guest count and activation format and we reply within 24h with confirmed availability and a costed proposal, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, security and event staffing, and fit out coordination are handled by our team from brief to derig. Request availability for this Paris showroom space now.
about this space
This unique commercial mansion is located at 44 rue du Four in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The property offers a total area of 1,200 square meters, or approximately 12,917 square feet. Situated near Boulevard Saint-Germain and Le Bon Marche, the space is suitable for use as a showroom, product launch, or corporate event. The premises include a terrace as a primary amenity. The location in the 75006 postal code provides a central setting for various professional activities. This expansive mansion is categorized as a unique showroom space, offering a significant footprint for commercial use in a well-known area of the city. All details provided are based on the specific property characteristics documented in the 6th arrondissement.
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 1200 sqm floor plan and amenities for Superb Mansion in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, then note the window you want in Paris. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
- 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.
- 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.
use cases
location
what's around
19 stores within 600 m, incl. Dare Modern Nobility, Yves Rocher, Picard
brands nearby
- fashion stores
- 13
- jewellery & watches
- 5
- beauty
- 1
- culture
- 4
- hotels
- 2
- cafés
- 7
- restaurants & bars
- 17
- other retail
- 11
- Dare Modern Nobility40 m
- Yves Rocher60 m
- Hôtel du Dragon80 m
- Orun80 m
- waxflower90 m
- Picard100 m
the neighbourhood
Ready-to-wear showrooms, jewellery ateliers, leather goods houses and the press offices that service them make up the working population of this stretch of the 6th, and rue du Four sits in the middle of it. Within a two minute walk you have Barbara Bui and Berluti toward the Carrefour de la Croix Rouge, Charlotte Chesnais and Fusalp north of you, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton on Boulevard Saint-Germain, and the smaller independents like Dare Modern Nobility and Quatorze filling the gaps between them. Behind the retail frontage sits the quieter layer that matters more for brand teams: showroom agencies operating out of first floor apartments on rue du Dragon and rue des Saints-Pères, gallery spaces around rue de Seine and rue Bonaparte, and PR consultancies clustered between Saint-Sulpice and Sèvres-Babylone. In our experience placing brands across spaces in Paris, this pocket runs on appointments rather than walk-ins, which is exactly why the showroom and press day calendar here stays full through both March and September market weeks.
Brands choose Saint-Germain over the Marais and rue Saint-Honoré because the visitor here is a buyer or an editor, not a weekend crowd. The Haut Marais around rue de Poitou and rue Charlot delivers volume and youth energy but it is saturated during fashion week, and the noise level around any given address is high. The 1st around Palais Royal and rue Saint-Honoré gives prestige adjacency at premium rates with heavy tourist overlay. Avenue Montaigne and the 8th read as luxury maison territory and price accordingly. What the 6th offers instead is proximity to the press and buyer hotel cluster around Lutetia, Hotel du Dragon and Au Manoir Saint-Germain, plus metro access at Saint-Sulpice, Mabillon, Rennes and Sèvres-Babylone that makes an appointment schedule genuinely achievable for international visitors moving between three showrooms in a day. What it does not offer is discovery footfall or low cost per square metre. Teams who come to us for venue sourcing in this arrondissement are usually buying credibility and calm, not reach.
Arrivals at 44 rue du Four feel controlled rather than exposed, which is the correct read for a 1,200 sqm mansion with a terrace. The street carries steady but unhurried pedestrian movement, mostly locals doing errands past Monoprix and Picard in the morning, then a shift after midday toward shoppers moving between Boulevard Saint-Germain and Le Bon Marché. Taxis and cars can pull in without drama, and guests walking from Café de Flore or Brasserie Lipp arrive in under four minutes. Mornings suit buyer appointments and quiet showroom presentations, late afternoon and evening suit cocktail receptions and influencer events, with the terrace doing real work between May and October. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the address does the persuading before anyone enters the room. Be clear on the limitation: this is not a location for high volume temporary retail, sample sales dependent on queue formation, or any pop-up shop needing maximum street visibility. Test that assumption early with the ROI estimator before committing.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Saint-Sulpicemetro148 m · 2 min
- Saint-Germain-des-Présmetro278 m · 3 min
- Mabillonmetro282 m · 4 min
- Sèvres-Babylonemetro331 m · 4 min
- Rue du Bacmetro500 m · 6 min
- Rennesmetro529 m · 7 min
street activity
high footfall.
27 places within 200 m · 30 stores · 24 cafés and restaurants · pedestrianised street
- within 200 m
- 27
- within 400 m
- 60
- within 600 m
- 60
the neighbourhood
The Rue Bonaparte is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It spans the Quai Voltaire/Quai Malaquais to the Jardin du Luxembourg, crossing the Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Place Saint-Sulpice and has housed many of France's most famous names and institutions as well as other well-known figures from abroad.
- Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier · 92 m
- Croix-Rouge station · 135 m
- L'Arlequin · 151 m
- Saint-Sulpice station (Paris Metro) · 170 m
- Hôtel Au Manoir Saint Germain des Prés · 177 m
frequently asked
Yes — Superb Mansion in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is a vetted pop-up ready space in Paris, 1200 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This 1,200 sqm mansion is built for established houses and scaled contemporary labels: brands with 50 plus employees, eight figure annual revenue, an existing Paris wholesale calendar and the internal team to run a multi room programme across several days. The footprint is the deciding factor. Twelve thousand nine hundred square feet across a private hôtel particulier layout means multiple salons, an occupancy estimate around 1,250 and the ability to run a buying showroom, a press area and an evening reception in parallel without any of them colliding. Brands at this stage typically find they need that separation, because a single large room forces a compromise between commercial appointments and press. Where we see mismatches is when a brand with a five to fifteen person team and one or two collections takes a space like this: the rooms read empty, the staffing bill triples and the same budget would have bought a far better result in a 150 to 300 sqm Marais showroom. If your Paris presence is one rail of samples and six buyer appointments, look at smaller spaces in Paris instead. Groups presenting three or more divisions, or a house pairing a collection preview with a client dinner, are the right occupants here.
Aesthetic Fit
The visual identity that lands here is heritage luxury and refined contemporary: tailoring, leather goods, fine jewellery, high end womenswear, fragrance and beauty with a craft narrative. A commercial mansion on rue du Four carries period architecture, proportion and a terrace, and those bones do the work for brands whose story is materials, savoir faire and continuity. The neighbourhood reinforces it, with Saint Germain neighbours including Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Berluti, Van Cleef and Arpels and Charlotte Chesnais within a few hundred metres. What does not work is loud streetwear, high saturation graphic branding, or a hard industrial concept that needs raw concrete and exposed services. Those identities fight the mouldings rather than using them, and covering original features to create a black box is expensive and usually reads as apology. Sportswear and youth culture drops belong east of here. If your palette is soft, tonal and material led, the interior needs light styling and considered furniture rental rather than a full build.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a fashion week showroom and wholesale appointment programme, because the multi room mansion layout lets you allocate a salon per division and keep buyer traffic circulating without queues. Second is a press day and collection preview, since the private house format allows editors to move at their own pace and the terrace gives an informal break area that hotel suites cannot match. Third is a product launch or brand activation for fragrance, jewellery or accessories, where a sequence of rooms supports a narrative route from story to product to purchase moment. Fourth is a cocktail reception or influencer event, with 1,250 occupancy and a terrace for overflow on warm evenings. Fifth is a corporate event or partner networking session across Paris Fashion Week, using upper salons for private meetings. Sixth is a content studio and shoot base between commercial days, taking advantage of daylight and varied room finishes. Seventh is a temporary retail space or invitation only sample sale, which works commercially but underuses the address unless paired with an event. Our activation service is usually engaged for the first three formats.
Budget Signal
Price sits at the upper end of the Paris market, and it should. This is a private mansion of 1,200 sqm in the 75006, minutes from Boulevard Saint Germain and Le Bon Marché, which is one of the most expensive and most credible addresses in the city for a fashion showroom or press day venue. Against alternatives, the value case is straightforward. A prime commercial unit on the same streets costs comparably but gives you a shopfront rather than salons. Hotel event spaces near Saint Germain run lower on paper but add mandatory catering minimums, restricted branding and shared corridors. Co-working venues and shared pop-up formats are far cheaper and simply do not carry the address or the exclusivity a house needs during market week. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is the brand consolidating three separate hires into one building for a full week, at which point the day rate is competitive per square metre. Model the full programme cost with our budget calculator before enquiring, because build, staffing and catering will meaningfully exceed the venue line here.
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