Espace Inkermann Châtillon hosts seminars, study days, conferences, training sessions, executive committee meetings and company cocktails for 6 to 180 people. Its eight rooms, from about 25 to 100 square meters, can be hired one by one or all together. The venue occupies a 19th-century hôtel particulier at 5 Rue Gauthier de Châtillon, in the center of Lille, a few steps from the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Seminars and company events
The house works for business events only. The venue's own list covers study days, seminars, conferences, colloquiums, training, team meetings, workshops, executive committees, company cocktails, job dating sessions, showrooms, exhibitions and pop-up stores. A board meeting of six fits in one of the small rooms, while a conference for 180 takes over the whole house.
The team helps plan the event and prepares a quote for each request, based on the number of rooms, the surface needed and the services chosen. Rooms are set up and equipped according to the format: the venue lists touch screens, video projectors and flip charts, and furniture chosen for long working sessions. Specific technical needs can be raised with the team in advance.
For a seminar that mixes a plenary with smaller groups, the larger rooms hold the main session and the smaller ones serve as breakout rooms. The planted courtyard gives participants a place to step outside during breaks.
Beyond the rooms, the venue offers team activities, from conventional formats to more unusual ones, and can dress the house in a company's colors with lighting, themed furniture, flowers, video projection and sound.
Rooms and capacities
The venue names eight rooms. Convergence is the largest at 100 square meters. Confidence covers 70 square meters and Apparat 65. Garden measures 50 square meters, Bienvenue 30 and Aparté 27 plus an 11-square-meter annex. Two more rooms, Secret (30 square meters) and Cosy (25 square meters), are listed as under renovation.
Capacity per room is not published. The whole house receives up to 180 guests, and the smallest formats start at six people. A 360-degree virtual tour on the official site lets organizers look at each room before a visit, and the team can advise on which combination of rooms suits a program.
Catering
The venue arranges breakfasts, lunches, afternoon breaks and cocktails through partner caterers based in Lille, with several menu options to match the budget. Catering is booked together with the rooms, so the organizer keeps a single contact for the day. Menus and caterer names are given on request.
History and setting
The building is a 19th-century hôtel particulier, a private town house that has been reworked for company events while keeping its period character. Each room has its own atmosphere, and the house opens onto a planted courtyard. Shops, restaurants and museums surround the address, which makes it easy to combine a working day with a dinner or a visit in the old center of Lille.
Getting there
The venue is about 10 minutes on foot from Lille's main train station. République-Beaux Arts metro station is 250 meters away and the République public car park 200 meters away. The address is 5 Rue Gauthier de Châtillon, 59000 Lille.
