Paris, France — Olympic spirit is rapidly spreading in Paris as the city, the host of the 2024 Summer Olympics, prepares for the games. Even one of the town’s most luxurious hotels is getting into the act, the Crillon, a palatial Rosewood Hotel, is hosting an exhibition of skate boards that have been created with renowned international artist including Cindy Sherman, Juergen Teller, Jules de Balincourt Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei , Andy Warhol and Inès Longevial . The hotel teamed up with THE SKATEROOM , which works with influential artists on skate art collection to create social change. Founded in 2014, the organisation supports non-profit projects in the fields of education, health and unemployment.

Skateboarding made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, held in 2021 due to the pandemic, and it will be on the program for Paris 2024, taking place on the Place de la Concorde where the Crillon hotel is located. The skateboard exhibition is open to the public and is free of charge. It offers a wonderful experience in juxtaposition as the colorful skateboards pop up throughout the 18th century hotel in its formal lobby, the bar, in its signature suites and upon its monumental staircases and the balcony overlooking the Place de la Concorde.

Sarah Andelman, the founder of Just an Idea, devoted to books, and an emblematic figure of the Parisian fashion and cultural scene was the visionary behind the show which was conceived by the architect Aline Asmar d’Amman who founded Culture in Architecture. The Hôtel de Crillon was commissioned by King Louis XV of France and became the residence of the illustrious Count Crillon and his family before being turned into a hotel in 1909. The Skateboard exhibition is on until September 14th. ©Trish Valicenti for The Gourmet Gazette. 10 Place de la Concorde 75008, Paris, France. Tel: + 33 (0)1 44 7115 00. https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/hotel-de-crillon