Air France Lounge

"There's something wonderful and exceptional about the act of flying, of soaring through the air amidst the clouds. It's a fantasy that became possible at the end of the 18th century, thanks to ingenious inventors like the Montgolfier brothers and the Wright brothers.
At a time when technology is no longer an issue, when airplanes are taking off again and the world is spinning at a hundred miles an hour, perhaps we need, more than ever, islands of slowness in an ocean of speed*.
With the Air France lounge, we wanted to suspend time to condition the traveler about to take off in the best possible way.
The intention was therefore to work around levitation, lightness and the sensation of escape for an airline with a glamorous aura, a symbol of French elegance."
Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku

"There's something wonderful and exceptional about the act of flying, of soaring through the air amidst the clouds. It's a fantasy that became possible at the end of the 18th century, thanks to ingenious inventors like the Montgolfier brothers and the Wright brothers.
At a time when technology is no longer an issue, when airplanes are taking off again and the world is spinning at a hundred miles an hour, perhaps we need, more than ever, islands of slowness in an ocean of speed*.
With the Air France lounge, we wanted to suspend time to condition the traveler about to take off in the best possible way.
The intention was therefore to work around levitation, lightness and the sensation of escape for an airline with a glamorous aura, a symbol of French elegance."
Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku - Jouin Manku

*Enzio Manzini, Artefacts towards a new ecology of the artificial environment, LES ESSAIS, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991