Unique 190 sqm Showroom near Place de la Concorde, Paris.
tl;dr
- Space
- A 190 sqm (2,045 sq ft) Haussmannian apartment showroom space for rent near Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, with parquet floors, ceiling moldings and a two room plus bar entrance layout holding up to 200 guests.
- Best For
- Strongest fit for wholesale appointments and buyer preview showroom setups during Paris Fashion Week, followed by press days and collection previews, cocktail receptions and trunk shows, ecommerce and campaign shoots using the fitted video equipment, and short-term pop-up store or sample sale runs. Available to hire by the day or by the week.
- Standout Features
- Cargo entrance plus multiple separate entrances allow rail deliveries and guest arrivals to run without crossing, and a dedicated stock room holds samples and packaging off the floor. Also includes a built-in bar at the entrance, a complete kitchen suitable for caterer setup, specialised track lighting across both rooms, in-house furniture and video equipment, and full air conditioning and heating, all vetted by Fashion Week Venues.
- Location
- Two minutes on foot from Concorde (lines 1, 8, 12) and roughly six minutes from Madeleine, in the 75001 postcode between Rue Royale and Rue Saint Honoré. The immediate street is quiet luxury retail and hotel frontage, with Audemars Piguet, Ralph Lauren, Kenzo and Buddha-Bar within 300 m, so crews load in discreetly and guests arrive on an address buyers already know.
- Availability
- Day rate is on request with brief-based pricing set against dates, guest numbers and fit-out scope. Minimum rental is one day, and we advise booking eight to twelve weeks ahead for standard dates; spaces at this address typically book out six months ahead for the March and September Paris Fashion Week windows and Couture in January.
- How to Book
- Send your dates, format and guest count and we reply within 24h with a hold and a costed proposal, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, front of house and security staffing, and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on your behalf. Request availability now to secure your Paris Fashion Week dates.
about this space
This 190-square-meter apartment is located near Place de la Concorde in a prestigious district of Paris. The space functions as a versatile venue suitable for showrooms, galleries, photo shoots, and meetings. The interior includes a main room, an entrance with a bar, and a second room. Key features include parquet floors, ceiling moldings, and specialized lighting throughout the living space. The property is equipped with several professional amenities to support operations, such as air conditioning, heating, and wifi. Functional areas include a complete kitchen and a water closet. For logistical needs, the space provides a cargo entrance, multiple entrances, and a dedicated stock room. Additional facilities include furniture and video equipment. This unique environment offers 2,045 square feet of usable area, designed to accommodate art exhibitions and professional events within a luxurious setting. All listed features are available to meet the requirements of creators and organizations seeking a well-equipped commercial space in the 75001 postal code area.
what's included
- lighting
- living space
- wc
- cargo entrance
- multiple entrances
- air conditioning
- bar
- complete kitchen
- furniture
- heating
- video equipment
- wifi
- stock room
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 190 sqm floor plan and amenities for Unique 190 sqm Showroom near Place de la Concorde, 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.
activation ideas
SS/AW Seasonal Showroom
This is the format the space was effectively built for, because the main room, second room and dedicated stock room give you selling, meeting and storage separation inside a single 190 sqm lease. Brands running a full season here typically hang the collection on rails along the main room, keep backstock and packaging out of sight in the stock room, and use the second room for seated appointments. Compared with other spaces in Paris at this size, the Concorde address does real work with international buyers.
Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Previews
Works well for back to back wholesale appointments because the two-room layout lets one buyer view privately while the next is received at the entrance bar without the two groups meeting. In practice the multiple entrances handle arrival and departure flow without requiring a separate holding area. Plan for three to four concurrent appointment tables in the main room, and expect roughly 25 to 35 buyer visits across a full market day before the space starts feeling congested.
Press Day / Media Preview
Strong choice as a press day venue, mainly because editors and stylists staying in the surrounding hotel cluster are eight minutes on foot from the door. The entrance bar and complete kitchen cover catering and coffee service without bringing in a mobile unit, and the second room works as a quiet interview or shooting corner for press capturing product. Comfortable for 40 to 60 attendees at a time on a rolling schedule, with the parquet and moldings carrying the collection preview visually.
Sample Sale / Trunk Show
Viable as a private sample sale space rather than a public one, since nothing is legible from the pavement and volume depends entirely on your own database. The cargo entrance is what makes it operationally credible, allowing stock replenishment mid-trade without cutting through the shopping floor. Use the second room for fitting and the stock room for size runs, and budget for four to six floor staff, which our retail staffing team can size against your expected hourly throughput.
Product Launch
Works well for a controlled launch of jewellery, fragrance, watches or leather goods, because the apartment format lets you build a narrative sequence across the entrance, main room and second room rather than presenting everything at once. Specialised lighting throughout means hero product can be lit properly without a full rig. Realistic for 80 to 120 guests standing across a two hour window, with the kitchen supporting a plated or canapé service and the stock room doubling as a gifting store.
Influencer Event and Cocktail Reception
Suits an invitation-only creator event better than a high-volume one, and the entrance bar means drinks service starts the moment guests arrive rather than after a queue. What makes this work specifically is the residential feel, which reads as a private address in content rather than a rented venue. Hold the guest list to around 70 for a comfortable evening, and pair the booking with influencer marketing so posting requirements are agreed before the invitation goes out.
Content Creation and Video Production Day
A practical content studio for brands that want period Parisian interiors without dressing a white box, given the parquet, moldings and in-house video equipment already on site. Two rooms plus the entrance bar give you three distinct backdrops in one day, and the furniture on site reduces prop hire considerably. Air conditioning matters here for talent comfort under lights, and the stock room takes wardrobe and crew cases so frames stay clean.
E-commerce and Editorial Shoot
Efficient for high-volume e-commerce shoots because the cargo entrance lets a full sample delivery load in directly and the stock room holds it organised by look through the day. Teams typically set the main room as the shooting floor, the second room as styling and steaming, and the kitchen as crew catering. A crew of eight to twelve works comfortably at this footprint, and wifi throughout supports tethered capture and live client review remotely.
Art Exhibition or Gallery Showing
Genuinely suited to a gallery showing or pop-up exhibition, since the specialised lighting and wall proportions of a Haussmannian apartment handle hanging work without a temporary lighting build. The two-room sequence lets you separate a main hang from a smaller focused presentation, and the cargo entrance takes crated pieces safely. Openings run comfortably at 90 to 120 guests using the bar as the service point, with the stock room holding crates and packing materials for the run.
Workshop or Masterclass
Adequate to strong for a client-facing workshop or masterclass, largely because the complete kitchen supports craft, fragrance or culinary formats that most showroom rentals cannot host. Seat 25 to 35 at tables in the main room and use the second room for materials prep and small-group breakouts. The constraint worth knowing is that anything involving wet or staining materials needs floor protection over the parquet, which should be specified at booking rather than on the day.
use cases
location
what's around
25 stores within 600 m, incl. Audemars Piguet, Canada Goose, Who are You
brands nearby
- fashion stores
- 16
- jewellery & watches
- 6
- beauty
- 2
- design & interiors
- 1
- hotels
- 3
- cafés
- 9
- restaurants & bars
- 18
- other retail
- 5
- Maxim's20 m
- Park Avenue Caviar Poisson + Agence Cosmic50 m
- Buddha-Bar Paris90 m
- Audemars Piguet100 m
- Canada Goose110 m
- Hôtel Sofitel Le Faubourg130 m
the neighbourhood
Jewellery houses, fragrance labels, luxury press offices and appointment-only wholesale showrooms make up the working population of this corner of the 1st, and almost none of them advertise themselves at street level. Walk the loop from rue Royale to rue Boissy d'Anglais and back down toward rue Saint-Honoré and you pass Audemars Piguet, Kilian, Giambattista Valli near the Madeleine end, Kenzo, and the older ateliers on rue Cambon where Yohji Yamamoto and Cadolle sit behind unmarked doors. Village Royal holds the boutique cluster, Place Vendôme sits five minutes north, and the upper floors of these Haussmannian buildings are full of PR consultancies, art advisories and brand offices that take apartments precisely because they read as private rather than retail. Having sourced repeatedly across spaces in Paris, we see this pocket used mainly as a fashion district for closed-door work: buyer appointments, press previews, jewellery viewings and small collection presentations that never need a shop window.
Distance to where editors and buyers actually sleep is the deciding factor for most brands who choose this address over the Marais or Sentier. The Crillon, the Ritz, the Sofitel Le Faubourg, Meliá Vendôme and the Costes orbit all sit within a short walk, so a market week appointment costs a visitor a few minutes on foot instead of a Paris taxi during the worst traffic hours of the year. Haut Marais around rue Charlot and rue de Turenne gives better value per square metre and a denser cluster of emerging showroom rental options, but it also means competing with dozens of parallel calendars and a directional crowd that does not always convert with luxury buyers. Rue Saint-Honoré delivers footfall at a price that only justifies itself for temporary retail with real sales targets. What this neighbourhood does not give you is cheap sqm or cultural edge, and brands weighing that honestly tend to run the numbers through our city compare tool before locking a week here.
Arriving here feels like visiting someone's apartment rather than entering a venue, which is exactly why the format works for press days. Maxim's sits metres away on rue Royale, Buddha-Bar and the Sofitel are just north, and the block runs quietly until around ten in the morning before filling with a lunchtime mix of hotel guests, office staff and luxury clients between noon and three. Late afternoon settles again, then turns polished around seven as the restaurant crowd arrives. Pavements are wide enough for a car to pull up cleanly, and the cargo entrance plus second door makes load-in for a 190 sqm build genuinely manageable, which is rare in this postcode. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the address does part of the credibility work before anyone sees the collection. The honest limitation, and we say this before every enquiry: nothing about this location supports walk-in traffic, tourist retail volume or street visibility, so treat any activation service brief here as invitation-led or reconsider the area entirely.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Concordemetro118 m · 1 min
- Champs-Élysées - Clemenceaumetro606 m · 8 min
- Tuileriesmetro625 m · 8 min
- Assemblée Nationalemetro771 m · 10 min
- Saint-Augustinmetro780 m · 10 min
- Havre - Caumartinmetro791 m · 10 min
street activity
high footfall.
12 places within 200 m · 30 stores · 27 cafés and restaurants · pedestrianised street
- within 200 m
- 12
- within 400 m
- 60
- within 600 m
- 60
the neighbourhood
The Rue Royale is a short street in the centre of Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine. It is in Paris's 8th arrondissement on the Rive Droite. Looking south through the Place de la Concorde, the street offers a view on the Palais Bourbon across the Seine.
- Maxim's Art Nouveau "Collection 1900" · 12 m
- Maxim's · 21 m
- Musée Bouilhet-Christofle · 36 m
- Café des Ambassadeurs · 62 m
- Les Ambassadeurs (restaurant) · 62 m
frequently asked
Yes, this 190 sqm apartment near Place de la Concorde is available for pop-up shops, and it is listed for pop up store and retail activation use alongside showroom and gallery formats. The important qualifier is that this is a first-floor style apartment address in the 75001, not a street-level window, so it works best as an invitation-led or appointment-led pop-up rather than a walk-in temporary retail unit. Brands running this format here typically drive traffic through press invitations, client CRM lists and the nearby hotel cluster rather than pavement footfall. The complete kitchen, entrance bar and dedicated stock room mean you can run selling, replenishment and hospitality from the same lease. If your objective is high-volume walk-in retail, we will tell you plainly and point you toward a street-level option instead.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This 190 sqm apartment showroom suits established mid-market and premium brands with a 10 to 60 person team, 4 or more years of trading, and an existing wholesale book or press list in France. The two-room layout plus entrance bar and dedicated stock room is built for a working showroom rhythm: buyers received in the main room, private wholesale appointments in the second room, samples staged out of sight. Brands at this stage typically find they need exactly this much space, enough to hold a full seasonal collection plus a seated appointment area without renting a two-floor townhouse. A first-season designer with one rail of samples will overpay for volume they cannot fill, and a global house running a 300-guest runway presentation will hit the ceiling of a 200 person occupancy quickly. If your requirement sits either side of that, it is worth comparing other spaces in Paris before enquiring here.
Aesthetic Fit
Parquet floors, ceiling moldings and a Haussmannian proportion make this a natural fit for tailoring, leather goods, fine jewellery, watches, fragrance, cashmere and quiet luxury ready to wear. The room does a great deal of the styling work on its own, which means brands with a restrained material language and low-density merchandising get the strongest return from it. Specialist lighting throughout means product can be lit properly against the period backdrop rather than fighting it. Where we see mismatches is when a streetwear, high-energy sportswear or neon-led beauty brand books a classical apartment and then spends the build budget covering the architecture with panelling and vinyl. If your identity depends on raw concrete, industrial scale or heavy scenography, this is the wrong shell and a white box will serve you better. Brands that want to work with the period detail rather than against it should look at concept and direction early.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a seasonal fashion showroom for wholesale appointments, because the main room, second room and stock room give you selling, meeting and storage separation in one lease. Second is a press day or collection preview, where the entrance bar and complete kitchen support catering flow and the 200 capacity handles editors and stylists comfortably. Third is an intimate brand activation or cocktail reception, with multiple entrances allowing arrival and service to run on separate routes. Fourth is a content studio or ecommerce shoot, supported by in-house video equipment, furniture and controllable lighting. Fifth is a private sample sale or trunk show, where the cargo entrance handles stock in and out without disrupting the front of house. Sixth is a gallery or pop up exhibition, and seventh a workshop, masterclass or client-facing corporate offsite. A short-run temporary retail space or pop-up shop is viable but sits lower, since this is an apartment address rather than a street-level window.
Budget Signal
Expect upper-tier pricing for Paris short-term commercial space, in line with the 75001 postcode and a two-minute walk from Place de la Concorde, Rue Saint-Honoré and Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Against a prime ground-floor commercial let in the same streets, this reads as significantly better value because you are paying for address and atmosphere rather than window frontage and long-lease commitment. Against a hotel event room nearby, you get exclusivity, a private key, a stock room and a kitchen instead of shared corridors and mandatory catering minimums. Against a co-working venue or a shared pop-up format, you pay materially more but you gain full brand control and a buyer-facing address that carries weight during fashion week. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this price tier is a brand booking multiple weeks across a selling season rather than a single day, and the budget calculator is the fastest way to sanity check that before enquiring.
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