"My goal was to try to accomplish something where the people inside experience the color in a different way than the people outside," Dreyfus said from Venice. "The aesthetic view is important, but it's just as important for me that people will walk into the light and experience something -- not just something conceptual or intellectual, but something direct. Inside the rooms, there is living light breathing and creating a sense of calm. And outside it's like the building is alive, like the facade creates its own light." "We wanted to reactivate the place in a visible and creative way," said Jerome Sans, cultural curator for Le Méridien Hotels and founder of the Palais de Tokyo, a revelatory museum of contemporary art in Paris that opened in 2002. "We want to start a new history for this hotel, and because all the physical aspects already existed, the idea was to change things that seem to be static." Other "First Night" openings in the coming months are scheduled for Shanghai and Split, Croatia. "Each new opening is one chapter in the book that develops throughout our locations."