The Jérome Seydoux-Pathé Foundation works to preserve the heritage of Pathé's cinematic society, which was born at the beginning of the twentieth century. The new home is in the center of a block of the 13th arrondissement, where there was an old theater building of the mid-nineteenth century, transformed in the early twentieth century in the cinema hall and modified in the 1960s.
The new architecture houses the Pathé archives, some exhibition spaces (temporary and permanent collection), a 70-seat projection room, and the Foundation's offices. This is an unexpected presence, a curved volume that is seen floating at the center of the court where it leaned, anchoring in a few points. The new building leaves space on the ground for a birch garden, a vegetable island in the dense mineral context of the city