Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris becomes the first palace hotel to be taken over by the Grand Slam, the centrepiece of an ALL Accor global programme designed to let guests live the tournament with number-one treatment.
For three weeks this spring, the spirit of Roland-Garros settles into the salons of one of the city’s most storied addresses. Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris has become the first Parisian palace ever to be redesigned in the colours of the French Open, marking the most ambitious chapter yet in ALL Accor’s partnership with the tournament, which runs from 18 May to 7 June 2026.
Rather than simply borrowing the Grand Slam’s palette, the hotel has been reinterpreted space by space through a scenography of glass, light and the texture of clay. At its heart is dichroic glass, a material that shifts in tone with the angle of view and intensity of sunlight and a quiet metaphor for a tournament that reveals itself differently from the stands, from a screen, or from the velvet hush of a palace suite.
A virtual court at the heart of the palace.
In the lobby, a mobile structure rises from a base of ochre clay, casting shifting shadows in cyan, magenta and gold across the marble floor. This is a living, virtual court that invites the eye to play. The transformation reaches its most theatrical pitch in the inner courtyard, where the pool terrace has been recast as an art installation. An ochre clay platform blurs the line between poolside and competition court, while a central net and umpire’s chair, sculpted entirely from dichroic glass, fracture the Parisian sunlight into a slow-moving spectrum. The court is, in every sense, a work of art and yet, by appointment, it is also playable.
Along the corridors, a gallery of translucent portraits traces the tournament’s heritage from 1928 onwards, the legendary Musketeers among them. In the Royal Monceau Suite, a mashrabiya ceiling in the bathroom represents the façade of Court Philippe-Chatrier, casting graphic shadows across the marble; a glass display console holds balls signed by tennis legends, and a ping-pong table extends the spirit of play into the suite itself.
Lacoste at the Bar Long, and matches at the Royal Film Club
Downstairs, Lacoste has taken over the Bar Long, dressing reception and bar teams in pieces from its collection and co-creating a new visual identity for the space. The menu features an exclusive pastry by the palace’s Executive Pastry Chef, Yazid Ichemrahen, developed with Lacoste and Giraudi, alongside a roster of cocktails designed for the occasion. For those who prefer their tennis seated, the hotel’s private cinema, the Royal Film Club, will broadcast matches live throughout the fortnight, with homemade popcorn and signature plates served in the dark.
The tournament, from São Paulo to Shanghai
Le Royal Monceau is the headline act, but the rebranding extends well beyond Paris. The Pullman São Paulo Ibirapuera, Pullman Tokyo Tamachi and MGallery Shanghai Nanjing have all been dressed in Roland-Garros colours, with dedicated suites available to book through ALL.com and live screenings open to members and the public alike. In Brazil, the iconic coach Larry Passos will provide live commentary during the men’s final at Pullman São Paulo, turning the screening into something closer to a private masterclass.
In Paris, members are invited to a courtside box conceived by Potel et Chabot’s Creative Studio in collaboration with Marseille artist Sarah Espeute, whose embroidered linens, hemp chair backs and exclusive wall piece bring a poetic, terracotta-and-blue counterpoint to the tournament’s energy. Guest chefs rotate through the kitchens; afternoon tea, an embroidery workshop and a Moët & Chandon champagne bar fill the hours between matches. On the grounds themselves, MGallery Collection has reimagined the Recovery & Serenity Center at Court Philippe-Chatrier. This is a space traditionally reserved for players as a sanctuary of calm where the art of hospitality meets the discipline of recovery.
Bidding for the final
For those without tickets, ALL Accor is opening a series of auctions between 18 and 30 May, in which members can bid loyalty points (from as little as 8,000) for seats at the men’s semi-final, women’s final and men’s final, watched from Le Comptoir. It is a small but telling detail in a programme that, taken as a whole, treats loyalty less as a transaction than as a passport into the worlds its members already love. Whether courtside in Paris or watching the broadcast from a suite halfway around the world, the proposition is the same: the tournament, with number-one treatment.
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