"Le Kiosque des Noctambules", whose conception began in 1996 at the Villa Medici in Rome, is a veritably fantastic object, since it allows our perception of the real and of our environment to be radically transformed, this work was designed to accomodate the flow of commuters at the Parisian subway Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre, and it proved a breathing space or a place for time-out. Symbolic of the artist's mastery of structures in Murano glass, this Parisian folly - a new canopy of heaven - displays two complementary domes, one for day and one for night. This commission for the RATP (the Paris city transport authority) gives a contemporary twist to the architectural history of the metropolitain initiated by Hector Guimard.