the tribute of Renzo Piano and Jérôme Seydoux

In addition to blue cashmere sweaters, Renzo Piano and Jérôme Seydoux share a passion for architecture and the seventh art. After the Lingotto cinema, in Turin, and the cocoon of the Pathé Foundation overlooking Paris, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, they will soon unveil what promises to be one of the most beautiful contemporary cinemas: the Pathé Palace in a stone’s throw from the Opéra Garnier. One hundred years after the laying of the first stone of the Paramount by Hollywood tycoon Adolph Zukor, Jérôme Seydoux, CEO of Pathé, financed the rebirth of the “Ritz of Parisian cinemas” with its monumental staircases, its Art Deco lines but with a surprise of size. “Employees from Pathé headquarters will occupy the top floors and mingle with spectators”, reveals Renzo Piano, 1998 Prizker Prize – the Oscar for architects. Behind the semi-circular Haussmann façade, its raised dome from which Mylène Farmer likes to admire the capital at night, a cone carries natural light down to the basement. We will be able to…