Louvre Saint-Honoré

Completed in 1852, this handsome collection of buildings has witnessed the economic expansion of Paris. In 1855, the year of the first Exposition Universelle international exhibition in France, two retail employees called Alfred Chauchard and Auguste Hériot founded the Grands Magasins du Louvre department store with capital funding from leading financiers, the Pereire brothers. It was the first of its kind in Paris, and at that time occupied the Hôtel du Louvre, within which the original arcade of shops developed into a department store. 

A century later, large companies began to use parts of the building as office space. In 1975, the then vacant building was acquired by the British Post Office Pension Fund, which began the process of converting it into a modern business centre with the Louvre des Antiquaires antiques market on the ground floor. Since it was acquired by SFL in 1995, the Louvre Saint-Honoré building has been renovated several times. 

Louvre Saint-Honoré offers vast, highly functional 5,400 sq.m. floor plates in an exceptional location looking onto the Louvre museum. 20,000 sq.m. of retail space on the basement level, ground floor and first floor were restructured to provide a new home for the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, which will open to the public at the end of 2025.