David Lynch’s Iconic Paris Club Silencio Sets Sunset Strip Takeover for Frieze LA

The Paris nightclub designed by the late filmmaker in West Hollywood with a takeover of Sunset at EDITION

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February 12, 2026

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David Lynch‘s beloved subterranean Paris hideaway is coming to Los Angeles with a three-night residency off the Sunset Strip.

Silencio, the Paris nightclub designed by the late filmmaker is popping up during Frieze LA this month, with a takeover of Sunset at EDITION, the underground nightclub at the West Hollywood EDITION hotel. Silencio’s residency will coincide with the Frieze art festival and feature partners like DJ Harvey, Tom of Finland Foundation, the podcast How Long Gone, VTSS (a.k.a. Polish DJ Martyna Maja) and members of LACMA Avant-Garde, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s patron group of young professionals and art enthusiasts.

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The first iteration of Club Silencio appeared in Lynch’s seminal 2001 film, Mulholland Drive, where both the fictional nightclub and the word (Spanish for “silence”) played a pivotal role in the plot. Lynch eventually decided to re-create the club in real life, opening the doors to Silencio in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement in 2011.

Originally opened as a private members club in a nondescript building on Rue Montmartre, Silencio is now open on select nights to the public, with guests descending a dark staircase that opens up into a multi-room, multidisciplinary club — and hub — for artists, musicians and curious revelers alike. Lynch was heavily involved in the design of the space, and the director continued to curate and program moments at Silencio until late 2014.

Now, as Silencio gets set to celebrate its 15th anniversary, co-founder and owner Arnaud Frisch is bringing the Parisian nightlife fixture to the “city that served as Lynch’s primary muse,” per a release, “inhabiting the modern clubhouse within the landmark Sunset Boulevard property” of the EDITION Hotel.

The Silencio pop-up will feature three distinct evenings of programming curated by leading figures in the art world, though exact details have yet to be revealed. Similar to the Paris space, Sunset at EDITION is accessed via an inconspicuous side entrance, and guests also head down a moody staircase into a sunken room. The club is famously lined with hundreds of disco balls on the ceiling, with a dance floor on one side and a cocktail bar and lounge space on the other. It’s not clear whether the space will retain a similar setup and aesthetic for the Silencio takeover, with press materials only teasing “an otherworldly place” where visitors can step into a “space between reality and dream, paying homage to Lynch’s original Club Silencio.”

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“Silencio’s distinct cinematic quality has always felt reminiscent of Hollywood,” says Frank Roberts, Vice President of Brand Experience, W and EDITION Hotels. ”To welcome it to Los Angeles, the city where David Lynch imagined Silencio in the first place, feels like closing a circle. The West Hollywood EDITION was built for moments like this.”

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This isn’t Silencio’s first project outside of Paris: in June 2021 Silencio launched El Silencio, a beach house on Cala Moli beach in Ibiza.

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