Difficult to succeed to Nirvana (of Claude Challe) and to La Villa Barclay…
The Club Matignon, created by Gilbert Costes, nevertheless succeeds in this challenge thanks to a superb facelift.
On the first floor, the restaurant, with its chandeliers and decor by Jacques Garcia, offers a superb view of the Champs-Elysées garden. In a muffled atmosphere, surprising coats of mail and mirrors dress the walls. Every night of the week, the “house” DJs create a “chill out” atmosphere.
A bar in the early evening, Club Matignon changes its atmosphere from 11:30 pm onwards, and becomes the restaurant’s nightly playground.
Until now, Charles Tassin was left without a decorative signature and was given the mission to reinvent the club. Like the decorator-engineers of the 1940s and 70s, Charles Tassin’s attachment to the decorative arts of the 20th century made him a natural choice. The decorator knew
infuse a modernity, a bold and sensual refinement to this place.
With his wife Maylis, he found the inspiration for the decor in the
“Ball of the Century” by Charles de Beistegui, now considered a visionary aesthete. The Naiads of the panels, adjoin
the leopard backs of the floor, give life to a virile and shimmering setting, a conscious tribute to the safari club of yesteryear.
An address that is now unavoidable.
Club Matignon : 3 avenue Matignon 75008 Paris
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