Espace Hamelin hosts conferences for up to 200 people, study days, training sessions, board meetings, business lunches and cocktails for up to 150 guests. The business center occupies a 19th-century town house and two adjoining buildings at 17 rue de l'Amiral Hamelin, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a five-minute walk from Trocadéro and the Place de l'Étoile.
Seminars and company events
The largest room is the Salle des Congrès on the second floor, an auditorium of 225 square meters with 200 theater seats. Partitions split it into two halves. It comes with a lectern, wireless microphones, five display screens and a writing tablet at every seat. A foyer with a cloakroom handles guest arrival and sign-in, and two foyers on the intermediate floors can serve breaks and meals.
Below it, 16 meeting rooms named after inventors spread across the mezzanine and the first floor. Each has a screen, a projector and a flipchart, and Wi-Fi runs in every room. For hybrid meetings, the venue supplies a wide-angle camera and a wireless microphone that work with Zoom, Teams, Livestorm or Jitsi.
Three packages are sold to companies: a full study day with breakfast, an equipped room, a plated lunch in a private salon and an afternoon break; a half-day version; and a full day with lunch in the in-house company restaurant. The plated lunch format is listed for up to 80 people.
The team can also design invitations, run a registration platform and supply banners and printed material.
Rooms and capacities
The historic Salle Conseil (87 square meters) takes 80 in theater style, 50 in classroom, 40 around a boardroom table, 36 in a U and 100 for a cocktail. The Salle Commission (42 square meters) takes 30 in theater style or 20 in a U, and the Bibliothèque seats 17 around an oval table. The catalogue says these three rooms are offered to tenants or by co-optation.
The larger inventor rooms are Salle 07-08 (65 square meters, 36 people), Salle 11-12 (65 square meters, 32) and Salle 09-10 (53 square meters, 28). The others measure 29 to 35 square meters and seat 12 to 18. The Electrotech room holds 25 in theater style or 30 for a cocktail. Outside, the venue has a 200-square-meter main courtyard and a 400-square-meter inner garden.
Catering
Meals are prepared by the venue's own chef. Formats include plated lunches in three menu ranges, two buffet formulas and two cocktail ranges called Réception and Création. Breakfasts, breaks and meal trays delivered to the room are also listed.
The private dining salons sit on the lower level with a view of the garden and take from 2 to 150 guests. The combined Champs-Elysées, Étoile and Trocadéro salons (90 square meters) seat 80 or hold 150 for a cocktail. A company restaurant run with Elior serves more than 200 meals a day.
History and setting
The core of the site is the town house of the Comte de Montebello, who lived there in the 19th century. It was designed by Charles-Louis Boileau, architect of the Bon Marché store, with neo-Renaissance facades on the main courtyard and a garden home to Indian ducks and pheasants. The trade body of the electrical construction industry bought it from the Princesse de Cystria and moved its offices there in 1939. The buildings still house the professional unions of the electrical, electronic and communications industries, and part of the space is open to outside events.
Getting there
Boissière (Metro line 6) is 280 meters away and Iéna (line 9) 300 meters. Charles de Gaulle-Étoile (line 1 and RER A) and Victor Hugo (line 2) are about 800 meters away. Buses 22, 30, 32, 63 and 82 stop at Boissière. The building has 28 underground parking spaces. Orly is about 48 minutes away by public transport.
