Club Silencio, Paris

We went to Paris this weekend with a bit of a mission to get into Silencio, the new private members' club designed by David Lynch. Expectations of succeeding were low, someone's well connected diplomat friend has failed three times and I don't think I've ever successfully been 'picked' at a club before. But surprisingly, just as we'd given up, the middle aged Parisian picker caught caught my eye.

Brilliantly, once you've been through the meat market/beauty parade entry, there is no cover charge (unlike Social Club next door which is 15 euros...) and the staff are incredibly un-uptight. Our group was dancing on a stage to Madness and taking an awful lot of photos and no one batted an eyelid. The music started off very cool and then turned into the kind of playlist you might find in a local indie club in Croydon or Southend and the tiny dance floor was full of people having an un-self conscious good time.




The interior even has its own forest and the furniture is really lovely (you may have seen it mentioned on David Lynch's twitter feed). The overall effect is something like being in a mid-century modern gold bar. Apart from the staircase down from street, which is dark, hums and had a couple of listless girls sat on it alone when we went down, isn't like being in a Lynch film or club scene. No nudity or dwarves for one thing. I understand that the screening room has Red Room-esque curtains when it isn't the dance floor (see this great teaser article from Diane) which it would be great to see. Actually, I'd love to see the whole place when it is in artist/member mode... one day...