Terminal 2G at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport is getting a makeover, an opportunity for the ADP Group to unveil its new hospitality brand, Extime, and its first collaboration with interior architect and designer Dorothée Meilichzon
Terminal 2G at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport has been given a facelift and transformed, under the direction of Dorothée Meilichzon, to welcome passengers into a modern and daring world.
This new terminal honours the tradition of French furniture and decorative arts. It is the first showcase for Extime, the new hospitality brand of the ADP Group, where conviviality and excellence are the key words.
Creating a bridge between the airport and the plane.
Dorothée Meilichzon's approach was to create cocoon-like spaces, small lounges where passengers can come and curl up. The atmosphere of the new departure lounge is harmonious thanks to the creation of a monumental fresco that can be found in various places: "It literally runs the length of the departure lounge and evokes an airport runway and its components seen from the sky. You can easily recognise the ground markings that are useful for the smooth movement of aircraft," says Dorothée Meilichzon.
This harmony is also reflected in the choice of fabrics used throughout the furniture. Thévenon has specially designed a range of houndstooth fabrics that are strongly inspired by the air. The Plane Poule fabric, for example, has a surprise in store for keen observers: small stylised planes have been incorporated into an extremely hard-wearing jacquard! Different colours are used in the terminal's boarding room, emerald, slate or brass. These fabrics are available to the general public from Maison Thévenon.
To continue and go even further into the imagination, Dorothée Meilichzon has created a dreamy, muffled aerial universe, which is made up of many elements: armchairs that recline, as in planes, the use of aluminium (which recalls the plane's prams of yesteryear) for the creation of mushroom-shaped lamps typical of the 1920s, the reuse and diversion of trolleys used by the flight staff into... dustbin. The whole thing forms a cocoon and coherent whole.
Art for all, in the midst of all
This new boarding hall is divided into different areas for relaxation and games. Lovers of board games (chess, draughts, backgammon, etc.) will also be able to stroll around and indulge in the reverie of "À l'ombre des arbres". This masterful sculpture is the work of French artists Jean-Marie and Marthe Simonnet (more commonly known as Les Simonnet). At the invitation of Gilbert Kann, curator of furniture for the decorative arts, it welcomes travellers from all over the world thanks to a clever assembly of modules that the artists designed and made in their Parisian workshop. Since 1970, the year they graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, this couple of sculptors have been working and living together and devoting themselves exclusively to the creation and production of plastic works.
The first boarding room operated by Extime
Dorothée Meilichzon's project at Terminal 2G is an opportunity for the ADP Group to bring the ADP Group's hospitality brand, Extime, to life for the first time.
Extime, invited to Terminal 2G by Paris Airport, offers each traveller a timeless experience through its service, design and commercial offer. Expressed in the departure lounge, the brand intervenes at the moment when the passenger reconnects with the journey to come, when he is certain to have his plane. A moment of wonder, delicate attention and elegance: entering a boarding lounge designed by Extime is a special and unforgettable emotion for each passenger. In Terminal 2G, Extime, invited by Paris Airport, offers a unique Parisian experience, offering a local touch to travellers from all over the world.
