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Creashow for Entertainment

With its 30 year experience in Event entertaining, Creashow acquired a well known and praised reputation in this industry. Its long practice which helped building a wide artist network made of this company a helpful consultant for its clients by offering them a reliable panel of wide always uptodate advice.

In addition of its ability to propose an appreciable portfolio of various and talented artists, Creashow is also a wise talent finder and a reliable partner to support the conception of tailor made events with its judicious advice.

Upon the preparatory stage (study and elaboration of specifications, supply of an adequate proposal with subsequent client approval), the Creashow staff, mandated to be in charge of the event, takes up its assignment. In a proactive way, which is undoubtedly an essential condition in the entertainment industry, the team delivers a high level performance without neglecting the essential essence that is the artist. They place him at the service of the event and not, as it is often noticed in this industry, the other way round!  The efficiency, the security and the comfort noticed by using the services of Creashow has lead Grain de Sel to choose their support, which proved satisfactory in contributing to ensure successful events for its clients.

https://animation-evenement-entreprise.fr/
Creashow for Entertainment
Giglam & the Imagineers for technical solutions

Giglam & the Imagineers for technical solutions

Giglam and the imagineers is a strategic scenography operator and a specialist in technical solutions for the event management and entertainment industry. Giglam organizes throughout the year all kind of various realizations for the account of its clients. Depending on the purpose, the setups can vary to fit any type of event from grandiose to exquisite confidential invites. All of their interventions respect one and the same matrix, which is to offer their clients listening and adaptability in order to be able to propose well personalized conceptions basing on reliable technical solutions and the appropriate equipment to properly meet the requirements of the needs expressed by their customers.

The teams are not only skilled and proactive to respond to any unexpected situation, but also offer the very appreciated advantage of being service focused, open minded, patient and dedicated. The Giglam employee has to be a double skilled expert, who needs to fully master the technical tool at its highest performance and newest level of innovation. Furthermore, in addition to such professionalism, he must also be able to explain with adapted understandable words the tool utilization to the neophyte.

www.giglam.fr

Facett créations for the Welcoming

Grain de Sel has chosen the company Facett créations. Whilst certain assignments may require a large staffing, Facett créations has also created a smaller more confidential team to intervene on exquisite VIP Events. The employees of this elite team are specially trained. Friendliness and courtesy, behaviour and awareness, proactiveness and foreign languages are part of the selection criteria that apply to be eligible for this small close team.

 

 

https://www.facettcreation.com/fr/
Facett créations for the Welcoming
Ambassador & Centaure for Transportation and Security

Ambassador & Centaure for Transportation and Security

Created in 1993 by the same founders, the companies Ambassador for the Transfers and Centaures for the Security. They are the partners proposed by Grain de Sel to handle Events. In 3 decades they have become the vital key partners for prestigious events. This solid basement of experience associated with their careful and demanding selection of best staff profiles enabled them to constitute a reliable team of 100 permanent employees to which add up a large panel of complementary temporary employees retained by way of loyalty building. A company Charter ensures the client to always have well trained staff, ready to react in full spontaneity with awareness, courtesy and professional competence, notably when it comes to respond quickly and reliably to all kind of unforeseen situations. As a matter of fact, this sort of happening belonging by essence to the event management industry, it is an important asset to be ensured.  

http://www.ambassador.fr/#!services

Ducasse exceptional Dinners at Versailles castle

The performance of this Master Chef, who managed to exceed every limit of what is considered to be possible, is no longer to be proved. His name and his works are known worldwide.

When, together with his teams, he decides to revisit a model, he does things properly! Therefore his arrival at the Château de Versailles represents an extraordinary opportunity. Whilst the quality of his Cuisine is already ranking by itself as a leading authority, the outstanding passion he invested in this project to drive it to success together with his teams and historians, is absolutely remarquable by the proven result.

The Chef and his teams knew to marry the precise inspiration of the age of Enlightenment with the modernity of our present time. Along an harmoniously balanced scenography, stylish contemporary furniture found its perfect place in the frame of this unique and historical venue. The Menus are elaborated by taking inspiration from the food served at the Grand Century period, but performed along the modernity of a nowadays footprint. The Marie Antoinette tableware, reproduced in exclusivity for this occasion, elegantly matches the smart pure lines of various other tableware. Finally, in perfect adequation with the whole, the detail minded Service, performed by waiters in ceremonial outfit, ensures strict protocol and timing conformity whilst remaining modern, kind and dynamic.

The result is absolutely astonishing and your guests will testify so upon their return from this gastronomic journey back in history. Undeniably, they could appreciate the exquisity of the worldwide renowned French hospitality excellence at the image of its prestigious origin, which the teams of Chef Ducasse knew to safe and marry with a smart adaptation to the requirements of modern times.

https://www.ducasse-paris.com/fr/les-metiers/reception
Ducasse exceptional Dinners at Versailles castle
Lenôtre Caterer

Lenôtre Caterer

We could easily bring forward many awards and distinctions received by La Maison Lenôtre. Ever since their first shop was launched in 1957, this smart company knew how to expand and to prove, each and every time with the same excellence, its know-how in several skilled activities. Its high level gastronomy awarded with 3 Michelin Stars for the Pré Catelan restaurant, its worldwide renowned school which trains each year 3000 professionals, its boutiques making their expertise known internationally and late but not last, their numerous events performed since their Event Management activity launched in 1967, are all the various praises ranking this company as a prestigious key player in the hospitality industry.

Each and every day, care, expertise, rigour and kindness are values jealously guarded and proved by all women and men of the Lenôtre team at each step of the events they perform. Starting at the design and ending with the satisfactory fulfilment, their ambition aims to associate harmoniously culinary emotion, service expertise and artistic layout. This culture of exquisite hospitality, permanently reinvented by talentuous and passionate Chefs, always aims the major target to drive your guests into a dream.

 

http://www.lenotre.com/

Kaspia Réceptions caterer

Founded in 1927,  Caviar Kaspia is an Institution which contributed to the development of the Caviar culture in France. 80 years later, in 2007, the company decides to take over again the lead of the  Maison de la Truffe, founded in 1932. With this acquisition, Caviar Kaspia gains a complementary advantage. In fact, in addition to the renowned historical know-how enabling these 2 legitimate companies to propose the two exquisite delicacies, they acquired a regular and solid supply network that guarantees to meet the high quality standards liaised to these products.  

Considering the appreciable combination between the Event Management activity created in 1995 and the passion that leads the company team, Grain de Sel felt spontaneously inclined to wish the elaboration of a tailor made experience which offers your guests an added value with the discovery of these Alpha and Omega that are the summon of French gastronomy.

http://kaspia-receptions.com/
Kaspia Réceptions caterer
Saint Clair le Traiteur Caterer

Saint Clair le Traiteur Caterer

Since 35 years Saint Clair le Traiteur masters refined and contemporary events, where the values of  traditional gastronomy harmonize with the flavours of the creative nowadays cuisine. Innovation and adaptability are the keys ensuring the long lasting lifetime of this Event Catering company. Partner of the nicest events, Saint Clair supports companies of all kind of universes, adapting to the corporate rules as well as to the institutional protocole and late but not least also to the luxury world. Globally they all have one and the same requirement, i. e. high level standards including a sharp sense of detail minded performances, which need to meet their will to have their guests living a real unique experience.

Enthusiasm and generosity motivate daily Saint Clair’s teams and so does of course also their passion for hospitality, which remains undoubtedly the  greatest quality skill they offer to share with you. Your Event Manager will be dedicated and mobilized to listen to your requests, in order to be able to conceive your Event in a tailor made way and make it unique

http://www.saint-clair-le-traiteur.com/fr

Dalloyau Caterer

300 years, is the incredible time along which, from generations to generations, the nice Dalloyau company and its teams of Chefs  and Pastry Chefs delight with passion and dynamism the taste buds and embellish events. This makes of this company the most ancient caterer of its industry.    

To be permanently part of the evolutions of our societies, it is important to follow the constant changes characterizing the innovative ecosystem of the event management industry. Therefore belonging to the front runners of the leading famous caterers of Paris enables Dalloyau to offer his clients a solid warranty. Watching to permanently revisit its model without sacrificing the quality fundamentals enabled this company to remain throughout the centuries the ambassador of the French hospitality know-how.

With its ranking in 2001 among the members of the prestigious Colbert Committee and its listing in 2007 as part of the living heritage, Messrs. Dalloyau qualify as a company that cultivates excellence through boldness. These are values they share with Grain de Sel and which enable a satisfaction targeted collaboration with their common clients.

http://www.dalloyaureceptions.fr
Dalloyau Caterer
Potel et Chabot Caterer

Potel et Chabot Caterer

With a story that started nearly 200 years ago, this caterer will celebrate its bicentenary in 2020. Potel et Chabot, renowned for its creativity in designing prestigious events, is permanently reviewing and innovating an outstanding high level gastronomy. Tailor made around a triptych, the visual beauty of the scenery is combined with the association of the gastronomy, the displaying supports (for which this Group developed its own exclusive table art) and a live implementation performed by the service and kitchen staff. The whole set of components is thought in view to present a unique, well controlled and balanced scenery at the rhythm of creative seasonal varieties

https://poteletchabot.com/

The Hotel of Evreux

Behind the facades of Place Vendôme, drawn by par Jules-Hardouin Mansart, after a building start in 1700, the construction of the Hôtel d’Evreux, listed historical monument, was finished in 1707 by the architect Pierre Bullet for its owner Antoine Crozat (1st fortune of France at the end of Louis XIV’s monarchy). It was built for his daughter and her husband, his lordship the Earl of Evreux, who gave his name to the building prior leaving it 10 years later for his new creation, the Elysée Palace. Considered to be a Masterpiece of Classical Architecture, from 1896 onwards the Hôtel d’Evreux is bought by and attached to the Headquarters of the Crédit Foncier de France. It belongs to them over a century before being sold to the Emir of Qatar. 5 years will be necessary to perform, in agreement with the architects of the buildings of France, a magnificent and ambitious restoring of the whole plot of land that covers 4 Mansion-houses with various uses. It was reopened in 2009 and the Caterer Potel & Chabot was entrusted with the Mansion Hôtel d’Evreux that remains, as at its former creation, an emblematic place formed of lounges aimed for receptions. The large windows open to Place Vendôme and this view makes up for an appreciable contrast with the confidential and exquisite atmosphere of very private Events.

https://poteletchabot.com/
The Hotel of Evreux
The Harcourt Studio

The Harcourt Studio

Initially a photo studio created in 1934 by Cosette Harcourt, this venue, listed as Living Heritage Company, is an iconic address of Paris. Presently managed by the Media Library of Architecture and Heritage, this workshop of “Art portraits” benefits of the exquisite setting of a fully restored Mansion-House acquired by its recent 2016 move to rue Lota in the 16th district. With 1000 m² located in a quiet and confidential spot of said district, this venue proposes an immersion in a smart architectural setting that perfectly suits an exceptional gallery of portraits of a worldwide recognized light and dark artistic style.

http://studio-harcourt.eu/

The Presbourg and Etoile Mansions

As smart private flats with exquisite Haussmann style appearance, these two Pavillons offer an elegant harmony between the set of features with mouldings on the ceilings and perfectly restored old-fashioned wooden floors combined with the modernized atmosphere created by the subtile selection of contemporary furniture. The picture created by the plunging view on the Arc de Triomphe mixed with the constant play of Parisian lights offers a permanent show. Whilst perceiving this choreographic pulse of The Capital, the guest, feeling to be at home, is smoothly invited to discover step by step a chronology of exceptional gastronomies.   

   
http://kaspia-receptions.com/
The Presbourg and Etoile Mansions
The Orient Express

The Orient Express

Ever since its inaugural trip in 1883, the Orient Express has sticked to its ambition to be an ambassador of the French ornamental art. The fully fresh renovation of the 7 wagons of the 20’s restored at their former look, with the modern comfort in addition, is a perfect proof. Sitting down in one of these prestigious wagons, surrounded by masterpieces of marquetry, glass panels, woodwork and interior ornaments, all kept at their identical former appearance, offers a parenthesis of a timeless journey. Besides that, one must not forget that it remains an effective fully enjoyable pleasure all along the journey after taking the train from the departure station to the chosen destination and come back.

http://orient-express.com/

The Palace fo the Legion of Honour

Facing the Tuileries Garden and located along the Seine, the Palace is the Headquarter of the Legion of Honour since 200 years. The Palace houses the official residence of the Grand Chancellor and belongs to an architectural estate that also includes an office building and the museum of the Institution. As a mansion house of the end of the 18th century, it opens to an elegant neoclassical main courtyard and invites its visitors to its lounges luxuriantly decorated with stuccoes and golds, an ornamentation that was redesigned in the 1870s in line with the theme of the Legion of Honour. Listed as ancient monument, the Palace has gone through a complete restoration campaign in the course of the last years.

The Palace fo the Legion of Honour

Consulting

Pluriel Compétences

In the frame of his Consultant mandates, Grain de Sel is often bound to offer his client the implementation of an appropriate formation in accordance with the studied subjects.

The formation requires a specific know-how as well as a huge adaptability when it comes to put in practice the contents set up by Grain de Sel in an initiation manual preconizing guidelines that correspond to evocated problems and relaying to the involved public.

 

A long collaboration with Pluriel Compétences enabled to establish a relationship basing on trust and on the insurance of a reliable convergence between the targeted results and the use of best practices thanks a method focusing on major factors like listening, adaptation, flexibility, curiosity and tailor made actions.

This spontaneously offered continuity combined with its competences as specialized partner in Strategy and Organisation offer Pluriel Compétences, in its role as entitled training company, the required assets to support Grain de Sel in ensuring the training segment for staff members and managers.

Pluriel Compétences is involved right from the beginning of the situation analysis combined with the clients requirements, before ensuring then the implementation on the field. As such, they are in charge of translating the appropriate contents in a training manual with guidelines they will teach at the chain end, once the clients management has approved the project.  

 

 

https://www.pluriel-competences.fr/index.php/home/notre-societe
Pluriel Compétences

Education

The Ferrières castle

Houses the school of the same name

 

Built by the Rothschild Family and inaugurated in 1862 by Napoleon III, it was at that time considered to be the most luxurious and the most modern castle of the 19th century. History resonates through the walls with former key moments like the meeting held there in September 1870 between Otto Von Bismarck and the Third Republic in its early days, a get together that signed in these days the forthcoming peace agreement and that settled notably the outcome of the Alsace Lorraine area.

The Rothschild Family recently ceased the castle and its magnificent English style park (125 hectares where hunting is still practiced) to the town under the commitment that they keep the  site available for training purposes.

This is how the venue was turned into a formation center. Upon a stunning restoring supported by its founder Khalil Khater, President of the Accelis Group, it opened in October 2015 as The School of excellence for the various domains related to the know-how of  the French Style hospitality.

Besides hosting a well known gastronomic restaurant, its lounges are also available to held events in their grandiose settings. Each case is elaborated in agreement with the school in order to contribute to the formation program of students, who come from all around the world to get trained with the advantage of being surrounded by renowned professionals of exquisite gastronomy.

https://www.ferrieres-paris.com/
The Ferrières castle
The Cordon Bleu Institute

The Cordon Bleu Institute

L’institut Cordon Bleu offers since 1895 an outstanding training program to learn culinary arts and hotel management.

It has become an international network for schools who aim to offer first class training into the various careers of culinary arts and hotel management. The training performed by the institute is based on fundamental values such as Excellence, Passion, Transmission, Creativity and Modernity.

In constant innovation, the Ecole de Paris offers also possibilities of entertaining as well as professional courses linked to many areas of expertise, all of them enabling the use of the latest standard tools, which have been implemented when its new address was set up in 2016 in the 15th district. Whilst enjoying the sublimizing privilege of the Seine facing view, making the moment even more so exciting, the guest is given the benefit of a gastronomy workshop conducted by professionals, a number of them being even listed at the rank of MOF (for Meilleur Ouvrier de France/Best craftsmen of France).

https://www.cordonbleu.edu/