Now you can spend the evening within the Musée D’Osay’s clock room

Mathieu Lehanneur, the French designer behind the Paris Olympic torch and cauldron designs, has remodeled town’s Musée D’Orsay clock room into an Airbnb visitor room. The room is accessible for a one-night-only Paris sleepover on 26 July, together with the possibility to look at the Olympic opening ceremony from the rooftop, and an unique tour of the artwork museum.

Keep in a single day within the Musée D’Orsay’s clock room

‘I’ve crafted a singular area that’s each romantic and up to date, intimate but luxurious,’ says Lehanneur, who has furnished the room together with his designs, together with curvaceous ‘Familyscape’ sofas and ‘Trinity’ aspect tables, and unfurling ‘Guernica’ pendant lights that flank the mattress, which seems to ‘float’ above ground.

The mattress itself is about beneath the showstopper of the room, the glass and metal clock face – preserved from the museum’s former life as a railway station – by way of which you’ll get pleasure from spectacular (and round the clock) views, together with in direction of the Sacré Coeur.

Wooden panelling encases the room ‘from the Versailles parquet ground to the vaulted ceiling’, making a heat and splendid bolthole. The fortunate visitor’s room-mate for the evening is Lehanneur’s Olympic torch design, displayed inside an illuminated alcove alongside a few of his sketches.

A finely crafted leather-based punchbag, ‘a private sporting contact’, and marble dumbbells are Lehanneur’s nod to the aggressive goings-on getting underway outdoors.

Following previous experiential stays resembling on the Barbie-themed Malibu Dreamhouse and a Seth Rogan artistic retreat in LA, The Musée D’Orsay undertaking is a part of Airbnb’s new ‘Icons’ sequence, which incorporates 11 distinctive areas ‘hosted’ by main names in design, music, movie, artwork, sports activities, and extra, that may grow to be out there to ebook all year long.