On the twenty seventh of July 2023, Mama Shelter will likely be launching their newest lodge in Dijon, the capital metropolis of the historic Burgundy area in jap France.
HOTEL & AMENITIES
Visitors can head to the bottom ground 202-seat restaurant to get pleasure from tasty, native delicacies reminiscent of charcoal grilled meats, signature cocktails, and traditional Mama Dishes, in addition to the Toile de Jouy-inspired décor. Visitors can get pleasure from Mama’s signature restaurant which opens onto two outside areas: the veranda terrace and the planted patio.
One other spotlight of the 120-room property is Mama Shelter’s CineMama, the lodge’s very personal personal 28-seat cinema the place friends can maintain personal screenings or video conferences, in addition to two karaoke bars, 4 assembly rooms and a petanque courtroom.
Out there solely on property, Mama Shelter has created its personal mustard in collaboration with Edmond Fallot, a family-run, impartial firm created in 1840. The Edmond Fallot home solely makes use of seeds grown within the area and the standard stone floor to protect all their gustatory qualities. Visitors should purchase the mustard to boost their dishes, with a mixture of flavours from Mama and Burgundy.
LOCATION
Dijon is surrounded by rolling countryside the place probably the most well-known vineyards on this planet, Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte de Beaune, and extra, rub shoulders with mustard fields and blackcurrant orchards, from which the well-known Kir of the eponymous canon is made. Dijon, 1 hour 34 minutes by TGV from Paris and 1 hour 59 minutes from Lyon, has loads to supply guests and locals alike, together with outstanding structure, with the spotlight being the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, the oldest a part of which dates from the 14th century.
Having been included within the UNESCO World Heritage Listing, Dijon is the Worldwide Metropolis of Gastronomy and Wine on account of its distinctive culinary traditions and the “climates” of the Burgundy vineyards. From distinctive classic wines to small dishes, the whole lot is a pretext for rejoicing and sharing.
Serge Trigano, co-founder of Mama Shelter along with his sons Jérémie and Benjamin, says: “For nearly 15 years, Mama Shelter has labored to anticipate its lovers’ wishes for discovery, encounters and happiness. Much more so after a pandemic that has turned the world the wrong way up, shaken up our lifestyle, considering and dealing, Mama has been forward of society’s evolution, understanding the need to see elsewhere, by organising in cities, in areas, famend for his or her light lifestyle, their traditions, their higher methods of residing collectively. It’s subsequently solely pure that the most recent addition to the Mama Shelter household ought to come to life in Dijon, the place we look ahead to welcoming you.”
Cédric Gobilliard, Managing Director of Mama Shelter, says of Dijon, “I am unable to wait! This motto of Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy, displays our impatience to open our newest Mama in Dijon. Mama and Dijon share the identical values of heat hospitality, festivity, and pleasure. Mama Dijon hijacks the robust symbols of this wine area with humour, impertinence and respect to disclose it to its French and overseas friends.”
DESIGN
Mama Shelter, on rue du Maret, subsequent to Saint-Bénigne Cathedral and Jardin Darcy, is situated within the former medical insurance workplaces, a brutalist constructing from the Nineteen Sixties, listed as a historic French constructing. “A big, luminous glass field, 6 minutes’ stroll from the station, within the coronary heart of town,” explains Benjamin El Doghaïli, lead architect of the Mama Shelter design studio, reflecting on his newest “playground” and including, “the environment of Dijon is uplifting, inspiring, mild and playful.”
“My purpose was to seize the Burgundian panorama and invite it into the partitions of Mama. To be impressed by the undulating vineyards, the geometric patterns of the polychrome glazed roof tiles, referred to as “toits vernissés” – or “glazed roofs”, that are the hallmark of this area. Tasting the wine, caressing the bottles to transcribe my feelings born of a terroir formed by generations of craftsmen, growers, to humbly add my stone, that is how I considered this Mama with the assistance of revered artists and craftsmen,” says Benjamin El Doghaïli.
The property’s black and white carpeting is designed by Lila Mercier, representing Burgundian vineyards, and the patterns and hues on the caning on the headboards characterize the glazed roofs present in buildings round Dijon. “This Mama is a spoiled youngster, playful, adorned with heat colors, terra cotta, powder pink, and inexperienced. Every of its rooms and suites is distinguished, for the primary time at Mama, by separate bogs, Tom Dixon basins, giant showers and, in some circumstances, baths. Additional particulars that affirm its character embody: an enthralling bench, a desk with a chessboard-shaped prime that may be eliminated to play… even in mattress. However above all, they’re flooded with pure mild, beneficiant, magical, which ennobles each nook, offers aid and depth, even to the concrete.”
Enjoying with the prevailing construction and honouring its historical past, whereas respecting the foundations of the French constructing code, was fairly the train. “When you end up with a forest of concrete posts supporting the spectacular construction, you rack your brains. ” Like an alchemist reworking lead into gold, the architect has reworked every pillar within the foyer and restaurant into artworks, adorned with frescoes by Beniloys, and golden ceramics by Arnold du Bazar d’Alger, a graphic artist, all of which praise the cut-out silkscreens by Atelier Bingo. Within the restaurant, consideration can also be drawn to the ground by two symmetrical carpets by Laureline Galliot the place jacks conflict, a reference to the archaeological digs that befell in the course of the development.
“We juggled once more, on the one hand to keep away from wandering round in an area that was too huge, we made the ceiling as darkish as potential and put lights at eye degree. Genuine grape harvest baskets have been become mild fittings and a monumental chandelier was hung with 136 items of enamelled ceramic harking back to conventional roofs, a singular object made by the Faïencerie de Charolles, a neighborhood firm. Within the decrease a part of the ceiling, a romantic rating is performed, with alcoves lined with Juliette Seban’s toile de Jouy, impressed by the work of Jérôme Bosch, gargantuan allegories.”
ABOUT DIJON
Dijon is the capital metropolis of the historic Burgundy area in jap France, one of many nation’s principal wine-making areas. Identified for its conventional mustard, winery excursions, autumn gastronomic truthful and constructing types starting from Gothic to artwork deco. The distinguished 1787 Musée des Beaux-Arts, housed within the huge Palace of the Dukes, holds a wealthy assortment of work, sculptures, crafts, and antiquities.
Town has retained different architectural types from lots of the most important durations of the previous millennium, together with Capetian, Gothic, and Renaissance and holds an Worldwide and Gastronomic Honest each Autumn with over 500 exhibitors and 200,000 guests yearly.
Dijon is a inexperienced metropolis with an vital tertiary sector, in addition to a regional financial centre, a conventional food-processing centre (Dijon crème de cassis and kir, gingerbread, Lanvin chocolate) and a famend pharmaceutical sector.
Mama Shelter Dijon
8 Rue Dr Maret
Dijon, 21000
France
+33 1 75 77 52 52
