Chez Honey

Chez Honey was a historic, bohemian club, founded in the late 1940s by American painter Herbert Gentry — part of the broader community of American artists working in Paris after WWII — and his wife, singer Honey Johnson. It functioned as an artist-run club-galerie combining exhibition space with a jazz venue. Gentry operated the space to sustain his practice: artworks were shown by day, while evenings drew figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Juliette Gréco, Orson Welles, and Jean-Louis Barrault, who came to hear musicians including Art Simmons and Don Byas.