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Paris’s best co-working spaces

These co-working spaces in Paris offer a calm and productive setting for the office-less

Huw Oliver
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Huw Oliver
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Stuck without an office and kind of miss the awkward chit-chat, liberal coffee-making and clinical yet work-friendly décor? These co-working spaces in Paris are home to a growing number of freelancers, startup entrepreneurs and academics looking to get out of their cramped apartments and get to work in a calm and productive setting.

With many companies now battling for space in Paris’s co-working space market, some are going all-out and offering all sorts of added extras, from limitless supplies of coffee and cake to hi-tech arts and crafts machinery.

Think we’ve missed a great co-working space in Paris? Let us know in the comments.

L’Anticafé
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Restaurants
  • French
  • 3e arrondissement
  • Recommended
This is a café for all those students and young professionals who’d rather do their emails and spreadsheets in the local Starbucks than at home. The concept here is that you pay per hour, not per drink: €4 for the first hour, and €2 for every hour thereafter. Furnished with everything your laptop needs - Wi-Fi, spacious tables, optimised lighting, peace and quiet – this is the place to go for those who, like us, need coffee to get their work done. The buffet also includes juice, biscuits, brioche and Nutella...
Draft
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Shopping
  • La Chapelle
  • Recommended
This studio-cum-co-working-space for designers and technology fans hums with the sound of sewing machines, laser cutters and 3D printers. Intended above all as platform for collaboration, Draft offers the use of its equipment to subscribers, with many professional designers and architects already getting in on the act. The fruits of various collaborations are dotted around the venue, with plastic model animals, wooden engravings, chic furniture and all number of other creations on display...
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  • Restaurants
  • Place de Clichy
In the beautiful 19th century chapel of a former convent, the charitable association Aurore has created a shelter, co-working space and ‘centre of collective innovation’. This means L’Archipel, an amazing project that encompasses a myriad of community and social projects. With a café and visiting food trucks, a massive book swap, workshops and an event space, you can come here for everything from brunch to a yoga session. There’s even a set of hammocks strung up in the alcoves for anyone who fancies a siesta...
  • Things to do
  • 10e arrondissement
‘Le Lawomatic’ welcomes a wide range of working professionals to a trendy creative space between Belleville and the Canal Saint-Martin. Offering extensive light office space, storage units, a high-speed Internet connection, 24-hour access, a shared meeting room and even a little cafeteria, the two founders of the Lawomatic offer nomadic workers a healthy professional environment with a strong focus on innovation. Envisaged as a sort of ‘ideas laboratory’, its offices can be rented by the month by both individuals and groups...
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  • Things to do
  • Cultural centres
  • Jaurès
Conceived by a troupe of young, independent freelancers fed up with the solitude of home working, ‘La Mutinerie’ is an attempt to create a co-working space properly conducive to productivity and collaboration. Located on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th arrondissement, the project aims to put the motto ‘libres ensemble’ (literally ‘free, together’) into practice. With subscriptions ranging from €30-€390 for the month, the venue is also used an events space for conferences and workshops...
Hubsy
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Bars and pubs
  • Arts et Métiers
  • price 2 of 4
  • Recommended
With its cosy atmosphere, peaceful music and small library upstairs, this co-working café space offers a serene getaway from the restless boulevards of the Arts et Métiers area. Opened in September 2015, Hubsy offers all the usual co-working amenities and equipment (Wi-Fi, plug sockets, meeting rooms, printers) and operates on a self-service basis, with payment by the hour (a system pioneered in Paris by L’Anticafé). It's €4 an hour or €16 for the whole day...
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