Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur

‘If Alice in Wonderland had liked rock this is where she would have spent her days and nights…’ -Mathieu Lehanneur.

Electric, the new cultural platform in Paris, is already an event in itself: a 1,000 m2penthouse in which the designer has devised a canopy of sound suspended between heaven and earth, monumental electrical braids emerging like pitch black trees.

Impressive by day, magical by night, Electric is a venue which never sleeps. A lounge interspersed with soundproofed modules and an 80m2 terrace, Electric is a space equipped with a mixing console whose ballroom floor provides a new perspective over Paris, integrating the ring road as a perpetually moving graphic foreground facing the metal mesh of the Eiffel Tower.

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Felipe Ribon]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Felipe Ribon]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Felipe Ribon]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Felipe Ribon]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Felipe Ribon]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Fred Fiol]

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur [photo: Fred Fiol]