Perhaps it was inevitable: David Lynch has designed a real-life Club Silencio, due to open on September 11.
The hitherto fictional night-spot was the setting for a key scene in Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive, being a liminal, occult-charged zone wherein Naomi Watts and Laura Harring’s characters learn a little something about the art of illusion from a sinister, moustachioed compere, then experience emotional release witnessing Rebecca Del Rio’s breathtaking Spanish rendition of Roy Orbison’s ‘Crying’, before finding the blue key that will help unlock the secret of their confused identities (well, sort of). Part old-school cabaret, part metaphysical threshold, Silencio is a truly memorable construct – so what can we expect from its real-world incarnation?
Well, all we know at this stage is that will be located on the Rue Montmartre in Paris (unlike its fictional forebear, which was found down a windswept LA backstreet), and is set to house a concert hall, restaurant, library and cinema. Lynch himself has designed the club’s interior, telling the New York Times, “I enjoy how architecture and design create mood.”
An eye-witness report of the new space comes from Rob da Bank: “I played at the amazing Social Club in Paris on Friday night with Spank Rock,” he says. “Just before I DJed, the promoters took me downstairs for a sneak peek at the eye-opening Club Silencio, a very cool underground club/cinema/bar/hangout which none other than David Lynch has designed… even down to the chairs and the bonkers ‘wood pixel’ roof. When the club does open this will be one of the hottest places to hang out worldwide and when Mr Lynch himself hosts some nights in the autumn I intend to be at the front of the queue…”
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