We hear how Studio KO turned one of Paris’s most famous nightclubs into a hotel. Then: making design more sensual with Astraeus Clarke. Plus: Nic and Grace give their takes on The Barack Obama Presidential Center. 

We hear how Studio KO turned one of Paris&rsquo;s most famous nightclubs into a hotel. Then: making design more sensual with Astraeus Clarke. Plus: Nic and Grace give their takes on The Barack Obama Presidential Center.&nbsp;

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Monocle on Design

How do you revive a club as historic as Paris’s Bus Palladium?

Clémence Pirajean and James Lees tell us about how narratives are essential to designing luxury interiors well. Plus: cooling off with design-thinking and the architecture of clubs.

Cl&eacute;mence Pirajean and James Lees tell us about how narratives are essential to designing luxury interiors well. Plus: cooling off with design-thinking and the architecture of clubs.

Narrative design and clubbing with Pirajean Lees 

Hungarian designer Linda Boronkay on crafting hospitality interiors that ‘nourish the soul’. Then: Nic Monisse and Grace Charlton on luxury kebabs, animism and the object in their house that they would save first. 

Hungarian designer Linda Boronkay on crafting hospitality interiors that &lsquo;nourish the soul&rsquo;. Then: Nic Monisse and Grace Charlton on luxury kebabs, animism and the object in their house that they would save first.&nbsp;

Linda Boronkay on designing for the soul. Plus: late-night kebabs get a chic makeover

Alex Holloway, of interior architecture studio Holloway Li, on drawing inspiration from cinema aesthetics and online slang. Plus: a review of Sicilian architecture and travel etiquette.

Alex Holloway, of interior architecture studio Holloway Li, on drawing inspiration from cinema aesthetics and online slang. Plus: a review of Sicilian architecture and travel etiquette.

How do you revive a club as historic as Paris’s Bus Palladium?

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