ACCOMMODATIONS
Number of Rooms: 149
In a unison mingling the exacting elegance of the 40s and 50s – rigorous lines, fine materials, warm colors – with the poetry of sensitive details, each of the eighty-five rooms seems full of a life and a history which its occupants, no matter how long or short their stay, are invited to extend: books placed here and there on the shelves, a light-shade decked with a sketch, a shell of Murano blown glass, party photos leant against a wall, a signed acoustic guitar, love letters left in the drawer of a desk - which has itself been drawn up beside the bed so as to allow for midnight jottings – a scarf, a pearl necklace... they are all traces of a traveler besotted with the wild blue yonder, or of a dandy, a woman of letters, an artist or passionate collector. This history continues in the stone, steel and glass world of the bathroom, a celebration of extreme cleanliness in which lurks a painting, or photos stuck behind a mirror... Finally, the dressing room, in an allusion to the fitting-rooms of haute couture, reveals a succession of mirrors and neoclassical furnishings in a shadow-less light. Such is the layout of these rooms which seem to be whispering how life, real, beautiful, nonchalant, pulsating in all its lightness, is possible quite simply only in Paris.
Conceived in the same spirit, the sixty-four Suites are fully-fledged private territories, or staging posts for the world’s wanderers and artists, providing them not only with a space to work but also an inspiring environment, bearing the memories of all their predecessors. For example, Suite 714 where Ray Charles once lived, now bears his name and contains photographs by Arlette Kotchounian who wrote The Sun Died essentially for him. The three Private Apartments provide the advantages of a private dwelling, while at the same time offering all of the hotel’s services.