Salle Pleyel, a concert hall on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré since 1927

The Salle Pleyel, an Art Deco concert hall at 252 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, opened in 1927. Gustave Lyon, head of the Pleyel piano manufacturer, wanted it at the heart of a great music centre. Jacques Marcel Auburtin, then André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon built it between 1924 and 1927.

On 18 October 1927, the orchestra of the Société des concerts du Conservatoire opened the hall; Stravinsky and Ravel conducted, and Le Corbusier praised its acoustics. Cortot, Horowitz, Rubinstein, Landowska and Segovia played here, Walter and Furtwängler conducted. On 19 July 1928 a fire ravaged the main hall, which reopened before the end of the year.

Owned by Crédit Lyonnais from 1934 and renovated several times, it was listed as a historic monument in 2002. Reopened in 2006, it was home to the Orchestre de Paris until 2014. Since 2015 it has left classical music to the Philharmonie and turned to contemporary music.

Today the hall seats 2,036. It stands in the 8th arrondissement, between avenue Hoche and place des Ternes, halfway between the Étoile and the Parc Monceau. Concerts and shows follow one another all year round.