Gary Friedman, Bella Hunter
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Image has been retouched at the request of the client.) Catherine Deneuve, Theo James and Zoe Saldana attend the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Ellen DeGeneres, Gary Friedman, Portia de Rossi, Bella Hunter
Fabien Baron, Alexandre de Betak
Dan Thawley, Julia daka
Mathilde Favier, Gary Friedman, Bella Hunter, Elizabeth Von Guttman
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Ellen von Unwerth attends the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Ayesha Curry, Gary Friedman, Bella Hunter
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Sarah Andelman attends the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Hubert Barrère
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Nyajuok Kueth attends the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Pierre-Emmanuel Fournier, Melissa George, Dan Thawley
Géraldine Guyot-Arnault
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Jean-Louis Costes (R) and a guest attend the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Pierre Maheo attends the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Ellie Peugeot, Dominique Van Der Bosch
Gaelle Drevet, Akeksandera Woroniecka, Alireza Niroomand
Alexis Friedman, Theo James, Arianna Friedman
Melissa George
Lolita Jacobs, Christopher Niquet
Diane Pernet
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Alexis Friedman, Theo James and Arianna Friedman attend the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Ellie Peugeot, Godfrey Deeny, Lorena Verganj
Elizabeth Von Guttman
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Marie Amélie Sauvé attends the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Veronika Heilbrunner
PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 04: Guests attend the Unveiling of RH Paris, The Gallery on the Champs-Élysées on September 04, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Darren Gerrish/Getty Images for RH)
Victoire De Pourtalès, Laurent Dassault
Gary Friedman
Cyril Lignac
Dear Shaded Viewers,
There are doors in Paris that are simply passageways. Then there are doors—six-meter bronze ones—that announce arrival. On a September night thick with possibilities, RH Paris flung those monumental doors wide, drawing the city’s most notorious, most cultivated, most curious into its secret garden just off the Avenue Montaigne—a gathering at the crossroads of elegance and intrigue.
Inside, even Parisian icons seemed to lose the armor built by years in the public eye. Catherine Deneuve slipped past crushed limestone and sculpted trees to greet RH Chairman Gary Friedman, while Zoe Saldana and Theo James disappeared into a vortex of glass, steel, and contemporary ambition. Ellen DeGeneres laughed over a Cyril Lignac pastry as DJ Milana measured the room’s pulse by vinyl.
This was not retail as mere commerce, nor hospitality as ordinary comfort. RH Paris is a manifesto delivered in layers: a design studio, an immersive library, and a gallery that hovers between home and museum. On every floor, art and artifact sit in silent congress, daring visitors to redefine ‘living’—one onyx-clad surface at a time.
Le Jardin RH, two floors up, is a fever dream—an armature of glass and steel under which guests dined, their conversations lit by the ghostly shimmer of white onyx. Above that, the World of RH Bar & Lounge blurred space and time, as Colin Field set down a glass of something impossibly crisp, and the city’s lights began to wink through the curved structure.
Then the ascent: Le Petit RH, a jewel-box salon glowing with over seven thousand handblown polyhedrons. From here, the city’s landmarks—Eiffel Tower, Grand Palais, the Louvre Pyramid—seemed to nod in approval. Patrons picked through caviar plates and seafood towers, finding themselves part of an exhibition where the line between guest and artwork felt intentionally porous.
As midnight approached, the space did not close—it transformed. The atrium’s caryatid, attributed to Chabaud, watched as legacies converged: Parisian and transatlantic, ancient and ultramodern. In this gallery, RH defined new terms for luxury: not scarcity, not excess—but immersion, history, risk.
For one unrepeatable evening, RH Paris became more than a destination. It was a living archive—part salon, part sanctuary—where the future of luxury took root among the city’s storied stones.
P.S. Cyril Lignac makes the absolute best sushi in Paris.
Later,
Diane
Diane Pernet
A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN FASHION and a pioneer of blogging, Diane is a respected journalist, critic, curator and talent-hunter based in Paris. During her prolific career, she designed her own successful brand in New York, costume designer, photographer, and filmmaker.
