![]() Today, this luxurious hideaway, with just 15 rooms and 25 suites, combines 19th century damask fabrics and wallpapers in a rich palette of coffee, cream, deep reds and pinks, with state-of-the-art mood lighting controlled by interactive tablet. When the existing hotel joined the La Réserve portfolio in 2015, its new owners enlisted maximalist interior designer Jacques Garcia to wave his magic wand. Rooms from €1,600, For old-school aficionadosĪn urban mansion just off the Champs Elysées, the club-like La Réserve is the ideal choice for those who want to stay somewhere discreet but central in Paris. Splash out on the Josephine Baker suite with its views of the Eiffel Tower, or the book-filled Saint-Germain Penthouse designed in collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola, and be sure to head to the Akasha spa for a swim in the 17-metre pool. Opened in the early 20th century by Marguerite Boucicaut, the owner of neighbouring department store Le Bon Marché, to house her wealthy customers, Lutetia has welcomed Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, James Joyce and Josephine Baker over the years Charles and Yvonne de Gaulle spent their wedding night there in 1921.īuilt in a style combining arts deco and nouveau, some of its suites were redesigned in the 1980s then, after a four-year restoration by new owners, it reopened in 2018 with a new relaxed ‘modern grand’ style that has been attracting a sophisticated younger crowd ever since. ![]() Hotel Lutetia in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, for example, is the Left Bank’s very own grande dame. You don’t always need to head to Paris’s Golden Triangle (Avenues Montaigne, George V and Champs-Elysées) to stay in a seriously historic hotel. A sleek, subterranean spa has a pool lined with mosaic in shades of emerald and malachite, a hair salon and a branch of Workshop Gymnasium, and has just announced a collaboration with the excellent stem-cell scientific research-orientated beauty brand Augustinus Bader.įrom €1,400, For bright young things There’s also an elegant bar offering a daily aperitivo hour. The hotel’s restaurant, by chef Niko Romito, serves reimagined Italian classics (and the odd bistro favourite) and opens up on to a little secret garden. The showstopper accommodation is the two-floor Bulgari Penthouse, which seats 10 in its dining room and has multiple leafy roof terraces from which to gaze at the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur. ![]() But the brand’s go-to architectural firm, Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, rose to the challenge and after several years of grafting, it opened in December last year as a strikingly modern 76-room hotel.Ī glossy, cosmopolitan mix of locals and tourists have been enjoying the hotel, with its blend of understated styles that mixes Italian walnut floors, ceramics by Gio Ponti and herringbone patterned carpets that nod to Parisian parquet. ![]() Of all the buildings in Paris that Bulgari could have chosen for its seventh hotel, a 1970s office block on Avenue George V must surely have seemed the least enticing. ![]()
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