Lounge music pioneer Stephane Pompougnac made a name for himself in the late 1990s and early noughties as a DJ and music producer under the Parisian Hotel Costes brand. At the height of his career, ...

"The lights are very low - it's like a club, to give a unique atmosphere away from the city and the crowd," Elodie Costes tells me one brisk day in Paris last fall. Of course, this isn't just any club ...