World’s Best Looking Court? This Paris Timber Court is a Grand Slam!

Is this Paris’s best-kept secret? If not, it sure must come close! Just a few short stops from the Eiffel Tower, the 150-member La Calvalerie Tennis Club is a throwback to the roaring 1920s. With a fully-heated red clay tennis court, shower, and locker room, the club sits in a wooden hall atop a century-old art-deco building.

Its standout feature is, without question, an incredible honeycomb-styled cantilevered roof. The work of Robert Farradèche, a famous architect from the interwar period, most famous for Garage Aerien, a late 1920s multi-storey car park located in the heart of upscale Rue de la Cavalerie, the 1924 building has a fully translucent wooden arch roof featuring 1,400 pieces of wood set into a steep parabolic arc frame.