Masterminds: Experimental Group

Claudia Hilmbauer, 21.06.2022

These four men are the brains behind one of Europe's trendiest hospitality brands. They set the tone for cocktail bars, mix in restaurants and garnish the result with extravagant hotels.

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Once upon a time, there were three 18-year-old boys from France. They organized a New Year's Eve party for their schoolmates. This was accidentally profitable, so the three students took the winnings, tripled them in the casino and treated themselves to a meal in a three-star restaurant. This party night at the end of the 1990s, which for most of the participants ended with nothing more than a veritable hangover, marked the beginning of a new era for the three students. Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros and Romée De Goriainoff the starting signal for a successful career on the Hospitality sector. Today receives the Experimental Group in its hotels, restaurants, cocktail and wine bars, spas and nightclubs, guests in Paris, New York, London, Ibiza, Menorca, Venice and Verbier - and it is with Xavier Padovani has been enriched by a fourth member.

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