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TheArsenale x Nous Paris x Viks in Geneva – NOW! – ViksWhenhome TheArsenale x Nous Paris x Viks in Geneva – NOW! 04/03/2018 Archive “If James Bond did internet shopping at TheArsenale there would be no need for Q” Starting from March 8th  Geneva International Motorshow is in town.  TheArsenale is invited to Geneva by Nous Paris to present a selection of finest machines to the public. Viks Classic in brushed finish with Shimano Alfine Di2 8-speeds, whup momentum and front disc restriction is on board. Save the dates from 5th to 17th of March and meet these incredible machines from TheArsenale garage at 4 Rue du Mont-Blanc, Geneva. Founder of TheArsenale.com Pat Meignan and Viks Classic on site in Geneva TheArsenale is one of our recent partners, who’s helping us to spread “The Vikslife” theme all over the World. Being the planet’s leading online marketplace for the micro industrial and self-sustaining builders who’s garage gathers upper end mobility products from skateboards to airplanes, we are considering them as our window to Middle East, where we haven’t been presented so far. Viks Carbon Edition is represented – TheArsenale Yearbook It is the time now to get to know largest the founder of the company, Patrice Meignan. Following interview with photos has been originally published in Beachroad Magazine Dubai in January 17th this year. What a man. What a life. What a passion. Enjoy. *** NAME? // Pat Meignan. YOUR FIRST JOB? // Selling rims in a soul Shop 25 years ago in the South of France, in Nice precisely where ids were super good in pimping their cars. YOUR CURRENT OCCUPATION // I am CEO and Founder of Thearsenale.com, Publisher of Intersection Magazine, Art Director in Formula One and a creative consultant in the Motion Industry. WHY PARIS? // Wherever should I live? I am so French ;) I know that I live in a small village with no Silicon Valley, no skyscrapers, no internal motorway, no waves and no sun but we still have a strong thing, the cultural lifestyle. I live 50 meters from Le Louvre (the real one) and it’s so important for me to finger this cultural atmosphere. It feeds my soul. WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO EAT, SHOP, SOCIALIZE IN PARIS? // My places are Colette where I go every week, it’s gonna be increasingly difficult now as it closed, so sad. I do my sport outside in La Cour Carré,  one of the most incredible architectural places and I unchangingly hanging in Rue St Honoré my neighborhood, the most iconic place in Paris. WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO EAT, SHOP, SOCIALIZE IN DUBAI? // I only spend some few days per month in Dubai and I mostly stay in my hotel and my office. The desert is really my favorite place I do not really socialize. YOUR TAKE ON DUBAI AS A CITY AND ITS RAPID CHANGES? // Dubai is impressive in its minutiae and architecturally speaking I fathom seeing it growing every month. I am still waiting for some increasingly cultural moves… WHY SHOULD SOMEONE VISIT DUBAI? // Dubai is a hub for me not really a place where I stay but it’s definitely a place to see once. A visit is necessary to understand how the Middle East is driving. For European people it’s a fantastic window on a world in motion. WHAT VEHICLES / BIKES / WHEELS DO YOU OWN PERSONALLY? // I really had scrutinizingly every car, and had the endangerment to momentum every type of vehicles from planes, yachts, bikes, skateboard. Now my main ride is a Uber and a crocodile leather stock-still gear. I try to make my life increasingly simple, so I just momentum some old Formula One’s in Dubai and bikes in Paris. BEST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB? // The freedom… I really succeeded in towers a machine which allows me to do only what I finger and love. TheArsenale visitor is my perfect tool for that, it’s a project purely led by passion, the passion of design, movement, machines and creativity I know how lucky I am to do exactly what I want … WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START THE ARSENALE AND ANY CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY? // I have spent my life in garages, shipyards, plane hangars and designs studios. A life defended to triumphal the men in motion, the guys towers machines and trying to reinvent the wheel. I Made some magazine, some events, some liaison programs and discovered recently that a new industry was growing up on the side of the big car manufacturers. I tabbed them the Indy builders and decided to dedicate my next decades on sourcing them, helping them and gloat their art. WHERE DO YOU SEE THE ARSENALE BEING IN 10 YEARS TIME? // Today TheArsenale is a marketplace, a creative lab, an organ and a publishing house centered virtually one nucleon (the motion designers) we have ripened a really iconic image based on the famous Vénitien shipyard undeniability Arsenale. One of strong headlines is International Motion Authority. The idea came from this desire to federate all the guys virtually the World working on some crazy machines. It could be seen as a parallel FIA, an volitional government of crazy ingeniors.   WHAT 5 CARS WOULD YOUR DREAM GARAGE CONTAIN? // Reboot Buggy by Joey Ruitter Essence E Raw Zarooq RAESR EQUUS BAAS And one increasingly for the Road, Rezvani Tank. WHERE WOULD YOUR DREAM GARAGE / STUDIO BE LOCATED? // I am unquestionably towers it in Dubai under a tower level -3 with a crazy young Sheik A secret project Coming in 2018. YOUR FAVOURITE AUTOMOTIVE BRAND? // It’s a really difficult question and I could requite 100 tomfool responses but I want to say Tesla as a no brainer for their smart road in less than 10 years where so many incredible others failed (I think well-nigh Faraday Future or Spyker. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE AUTOMOTIVE BRAND? // I love cars plane when they are dumb and I can’t really find one I don’t like. YOUR FAVOURITE CLOTHING / FASHION BRAND? // Rick Owens is my master. I wear only woebegone for the last 25 years and Rick is a genius to pop up my ninja style. My style is a remix of the Bosozuku, the Z-boys and ninja living in Rue St Honoré. MOTION ASIDE WHAT ARE YOUR OTHER PASSIONS? // i am hungry as hell, I need to eat images every day I am collecting books, magazine, images, paintings, drawings … I have a strong passion for images not just art but visuals, I love the visual identity and visual language… YOUR GREATEST LOVE? // I am sharing my life with 3 women who are incredibly strong and originals. Lou my daughter, Laura my wife and Eleonore my mother. YOUR GREATEST FEAR? // See response below. WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY? // My primeval memory is with my father in his airplane garage, I was 4 or 5 and was holding a screwdriver in my hand under his plane. I still have the picture of it, it’s an incredible memory for me …. WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL AND WHY? // 20 years ago I was 15°% in the riding culture, I was publisher of a skateboard and snowboard magazine and my partner was moreover my mentor. He was tabbed Bruno Debauché. He was simply the coolest guy I met on earth. He passed yonder 10 years ago and left a lot of strong guys alone. He was one of the most iconic guys of our era … WHAT IS THE LAST GIFT YOU GAVE SOMEONE? // As we just past Christmas I made a lot of presents to my family, I usually offer the typesetting I wrote to every interesting person I meet. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE CHILDREN? // Follow your intuition and stay real. WHO WOULD PLAY YOU IN A MOVIE? // It’s funny rationalization my friends sometimes think my life is a movie and to be honest I am towers my life as a movie, as a perpetual venture so I would say that I am writing my own movie… FAVOURITE MUSIC // I wastefulness between, old reggae, rap music and minimal electronica. LAST RECORD / DOWNLOAD YOU BOUGHT? // Migos-Band and Boujee ft Lil Uzy Vert FAVOURITE BOOK? // J’irais Cracher Sur Vos Tombes and Louis Ferdinand Celine. LAST BOOK YOU BOUGHT? // From Zero to One, Written by Peter Thiel. THE CLOSEST YOU HAVE COME TO DEATH? // 10 years ago I had cancer, I had 11 months of chemotherapy in hospital, it was a well-constructed nightmare and I was really tropical to death. FAVOURITE DESTINATION? // Flores in Indonesia where I bought land. LEAST FAVOURITE DESTINATION? // I love every place in the World and I am unchangingly happy like a kid to discover new places. HOW DO YOU RELAX? // My exit Is yoga. ARE YOU SPORTY? // I do sports every day, my training session is well-nigh an hour. BEACH OR DESERT? //Waterfrontfor surf. URBAN OR RURAL? // I would say rural but I fathom rurality where you can meet true people. CATS OR DOGS? // Cats, I have a 4-year old woebegone cat that my wife and I found on a waterfront in Saint Barthelemy. We brought it when to Paris. COFFEE OR TEA? // I am a real coffee votary Late ones … WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? // I love stupid French humanistic movie from the 80s. YOUR MESSAGE? // Fake it till you make it … *** Discover TheArsenale: https://thearsenale.com/ Tell us well-nigh your dream Viks bicycle:  http://viks.cc/order-custom/