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In the table flickering TV screens, the walls decorated with black graffiti: An Ex-Club Med-chief and the designer Philippe Starck in Paris have a three-star hotel "Mama Shelter" created - almost all in black and with a social benefit.

 

Looks like the hotel of the future? Reckt massive concrete block, the seven floors high in the sky of Paris. Inviting is the new building with its glass and steel elements are not. On the contrary. The 25-million-euro hotel "Mama Shelter" looks like an office tower, is located far from the shot on the eastern edge of the capital.

The fatal Außenansicht is only the first impression, and deceptive. The interior receives "Mutterns refuge" for its guests with thick carpets and piano music, candlelight and large screens, graffiti on the walls and an avalanche of technical innovations.

"Mama Shelter stands for warmth and comfort. Our guests are protected here as in nuts, this is a shelter, a shelter," said the attempted 62-year-old hotel Inventor Serge Trigano, the strange name of his house to explain. His last October opened hotel is a meeting place to take guests "like an urban kibbutz absorbs.

And as in a kibbutz is also the staff of "Mama Shelter" young, also of different skin color. For most, it is the first job, they come from school, or directly from the street. Waiters and chambermaids, and almost all were recruited from the immediate neighborhood, a poorer neighborhood where many artists live and workers.

In the remote 20th District has not yet Hotelier million project with a ceremony. Serge Trigano, but believes in the future of "Mama Shelter." A hotel as a social springboard? "Oui, c'est possible", he says. The misfit between the managers want to show the establishment. "Our people are inexperienced, but highly motivated," said the patron his team. "You have already repeated his order that mistakes happen, but here it is authentic."

Unforgettable is about the bouncer in brown parka, the so-depth discussion with his friends that he only noticed the guest, when the heavy door into the castle again fell. To the staff up to speed to bring Trigano has the renowned Parisian luxury hotel Plaza Athénée "the Chefconcièrge Jean-Claude Elgaire away - Paris insiders were surprised.

Philippe Starck creates black room

Courage and ingenuity are the Trigano family. Gilbert's father, in the 1950s, the Club Méditerranée co. He took over the chief's son Serge post, but his career ended abruptly when he was in 1997 by the Italian Agnelli majority shareholder of the company kriselnden was pushed.

Ten years ago, Serge Trigano was the first time from the hotel of the future dream. In the autumn of 2008 he set the critical Parisian audience before his bunker Klotz: "A lot of comfort at very reasonable prices, our hotel will be sexy and ecologically." Sexy is the "Mama Shelter" from the outside does not know God. To consider and reasonable effect of the box, the exterior view of the lack of creativity and a playful delight in the new. Inside the hotel trumps but. It looks forward Serge Trigano thievish, with Philippe Starck, a World Star for the interior to have won.

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In the hotel bunker has a master of decoration so zugelangt. Starck has already luxury hotels like the Meurice in Paris style, but here was from the beginning on. Black, gray and white are the dominant colors in the corridors and rooms. The dark walls and low ceilings are instructions on Starck painted with graffiti. The effect is extremely bleak, but some find it cool. The guests are more likely to believe in New York than in Paris, with a touch of "Peace and Love."

In order for the bill rises were 172 rooms in the hotel housed Klotz. Most are only around 17 square meters, with cash of concrete walls. With a little luck is a night in a double room for 79 euros to have, however, without breakfast, booked early and are no longer refundable. This is a record for a three-star hotel, the tendency to five-star palace has. Suites are also in the upper floors. You are more than 35 square meters, some with a terrace, and cost from 209 euros.

Although each room has an iMac with 24-inch flat screen, while TV, radio, CD and DVD players, and Skype, and free Internet access offering. But the urge to save is visible: As a bedside lamp has a simple construction Starck lamps on the wall, with the Venetian carnival or even "Star Wars" masks covered. The bathrooms are small, there are no bathtubs. Also demanding guests will find in the "Shelter" is not a spa, this is a Yogaraum in conversation: a long announced but not yet installed.

Also a room, one searches in vain, "too expensive," says Jeremie Trigano, youngest son of the hotel marketing director and inventor of the hotel. In the kitchenette with refrigerator, coffee maker and microwave hungry guests can prepare snacks, in the entrance hall will be sold in vending machines. Since the effect of future promised Trigano the hotel quite a bit more automated, and dismal.

"The luxury hotels with their room rates lifted completely is today only a vanishingly small number of privileged afford," said Serge Trigano. Five-star palaces are for him just past the sprit schluck SUVs and leisure travel to the other end of the world. "The future lies in tourism cities. The people are for an exhibition in another city, the TGV or ICE. And want to live comfortably on target."

TV news on the breakfast table

On the ground floor jostle several bars and a restaurant with rough wooden tables, the balancing act between comfort and rustic cuisine of high dares. Chef Alain Senderens is one of the inventors of nouvelle cuisine. In 2005, he headlines when he was 28 years after his three Michelin stars back, because the conditions of the restaurant critic of "reasonable price for my customers impossible" to make. Now the man with the white hat for "Mama Shelter," a two-course menu at lunch time with 25 euros.

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Interim Restaurant and Bar is a video column. Hotel and restaurant guests can record messages, then the hotel over all screens disseminated. If this type of contact appears to be unchecked, you can take the direct route. A drink at the bar - or better still a table football game? Four feet long is the table where eight people play (and flirting) can.

In addition, winds, a twelve meter long Esstischungetüm. Morning breakfast meeting, in the evening for happy hour rendezvous. The trick: In a Plexiglas flickering screens of Armada, the TV news from all over the world show - Table communications for the urban nomad!

Youth Hostels In earlier event, there were boards, in "Mama Shelter" have large mirror over the role. These are available on each floor. The reception will list every day culture and fun offered by the center. Tango on the banks of the Seine, avant-garde exhibitions, and, last but not least, the program of the Flèche d'Or. The Temple of European pop-rock scene is famous for its live music and hot love is a direct neighbor of the hotel. Visiting artists to live and eat in the "Mama Shelter."

"Sexy and organic" as the hotel is also the urban mobility come along, the "Mama Shelter" provides: small cars like Smart or Fiat 500 can be hired and scooters, including the famous French Solex moped in the electric version.

Or you can simply jump on the Paris city bus No. 76, in 15 minutes of the Paris Marais achieved.

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