The latest creation from the company will open at a location in West Kensington on the 24th March.
Opening in March 2026, at The Lost Estate’s West London home, Chat Noir! will transport audiences to bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s, inside the legendary Le Chat Noir – the original Parisian cabaret club that launched a cultural revolution and gave birth to the modern nightlife.
Right at the heart of the story stands Rodolphe Salis – the real-life proprietor of Le Chat Noir and architect of its most notorious cabarets – as he prepares his final, and most ambitious, creation: a feverish celebration of love and madness. Played by the ‘Dandy King of Cabaret’, Joe Morrose, Salis is a man aflame with ideas, careering between anarchy and art, chasing one last moment of transcendence before the curtain falls.
Tonight he has summoned the greatest artists of his age — the magician Buatier De Kolta (performed by acclaimed magician Neil Kelso), dancer Cléo de Mérode, mime Paul LeGrand (performed by the virtuosic Pi the Mime), and chanteuse Yvette Guilbert — to create one final, audacious revue, a night of love, madness, and French art from across the ages. Together they conjure a variety show of reckless brilliance, accompanied by the club’s house band, Les Enfants Vagabondes.
This new experience will see The Lost Estate’s 30,000 sq ft venue in West London being rebuilt as a 360-degree recreation of original Paris cabaret club Le Chat Noir, complete with flickering gas lamps and smoke-swirlled table lamps.
All tickets include three courses of decadent Parisian Haute Cuisine and Chat Noir! also features an emerald Bar de Absinthe, serving transportive Belle Epoque cocktails.
The immersive world has been created by The Lost Estate’s Head of Design Thomas Kirk Shannon, lighting designer Mike Gunning (Alice’s Adventures Underground, Drowned Man, Grace Jones) and couture by Susan Kulkarni (Secret Cinema, Come Alive!).
Guests are encouraged to dress in Vintage Parisian style.
Talking about the news, William Kunhardt, Co-Founder, The Lost Estate said: “Every experience by The Lost Estate begins the same way – an obsession with a moment in time when art, hospitality, and visionary people collided to create an inflection point in culture.
“Chat Noir! is the expression of our latest obsession: the bohemian subculture of 1890s Paris, the dawning of French Haute Cuisine, and amidst it all the impresario Rodolphe Salis with his masterpiece, Le Chat Noir. It was the world’s first cabaret – a night-club where great French artists gathered to share and experiment, where every layer of Parisian society came to be entertained, provoked, and liberated. Dining, drinking, and artistic freedom became one. A movement was born that would change global culture forever. What a moment to bring back to life – to give people the chance to travel back in time and step inside this extraordinary nocturnal world, indulge utterly and live out one of the most explosive, daring and hedonistic moments in European cultural history.”
To find out more visit: https://thelostestate.com/