Art Basel has a rare gift: it takes on the soul of every city it inhabits. Paris is a city of boldness, of ideas born late in the evening, of encounters that cannot be planned. It is precisely this spirit that Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris has nurtured since 1928.

Born in the exuberance of the Années Folles, it has always been the address of creators before it was that of travellers. This partnership does not mark a first encounter. It makes official what these walls have always known.

As official partner of the October event, Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris stands as a natural point of convergence for the international art world — a place where ideas flow freely and conversations extend well beyond the last private view.

Throughout Art Basel Paris, the Palace welcomes the voices and thinkers behind the Conversations programme: artists, critics, collectors and curators gathered to shape the creative dialogue of tomorrow.

On returning from the Grand Palais, its gastronomic tables and the legendary Le Bar Long become informal salons — spaces for reflection and exchange, equal to the intellectual energy of the event. Conversations sparked before a work of art find, glass in hand, their most natural continuation in the warm and generous atmosphere that defines this Palace.