Modern Design Paris
Hotel Gabriel, Paris
To those travelers exhausted by the stresses of modern life, the Hotel Gabriel Paris Marais emits the epitome of privacy and elegance, apparent as soon as one sets foot in the entrance hall. The Hotel’s façade is highlighted by its gorgeous Art Deco ornaments, and in conjunction with the minimalist interiors, conceived by the wonderful architect/designer Axel Schoenert, an overarching atmosphere of calm and relaxation is created. Located in the heart of Paris’ Marais district, known for its stunning 17th and 18th century architecture, the hotel is surrounded by the hippest and chicest shops, restaurants, cafes and galleries – perfectly situated for those travelers interested in including in an incredibly fulfilling relaxing regiment as well as enjoying the finest aspects of Parisian urban living. Schoenert’s white décor and “Zen” atmosphere in subdued shades are enhanced by Australian Mark Stuart’s beautiful artwork, as well as original furnishings, sophisticated lighting and cutting edge technologies. All 50 rooms – Glowing, Model and Lone Star – also come equipped with decadently comfortable bedding, plush rugs and calming LED lighting. A Zen haven of relaxation in the middle of the historic city’s thriving cultural hub, the Hotel Gabriel Paris Marais has a little bit of everything and welcomes guests to come and discover it all.
Murano, Paris
Standing proud on a wide boulevard at the edge of Paris’ achingly hip Marais district, the MURANO hotel’s unadorned facade reveals little of the fabulous flamboyance hidden within. Playful, fun yet somehow still sophisticated, this urban resort is an intriguing mash-up of quirky design, evocative lighting and technological innovation, perfectly executed to stimulate the senses. No where is this more true than in its 52 rooms and suites, which are opened by fingerprint ID and feature discreetly placed customisable lights controlled from a bedside panel according to guest desire. In addition to mood-suiting lights and other such hi-tech gadgetry, rooms also come equipped with natural argon oil amenities, pillow menus and extra-wide beds. Two of the suites even come with private, outdoor heated swimming pools for the utmost in luxury.
Downstairs, the acclaimed MURANO restaurant spreads across a five-metre high main dining room, two cosy lounges and a sun-drenched terrace. The avant-garde kitchen offers delicate, creative and refreshingly healthy cuisine equally suited to meat-lovers and vegetarians. The hotel bar is no less impressive, offering a staggering 180 types of vodka, as well as live music during the week and house DJs every night. The bar, in fact, is really two bars separated by a plate glass wall: one bright, white and dominated by a room-length fireplace, the other warm and panelled in red. Housed in a glass box in the rafters above, the DJ overlooks both spaces while spinning music all night long. Four additional rooms serve as perfect venues for private events or business meetings.
Hotel Sezz Paris
Tucked behind a classic Art Nouveau façade, Hotel Sezz Paris is a haute-design mecca that places extraordinary emphasis on service, shaking up the luxe Right Bank Passy neighborhood in the process. With a sweeping view of the Eiffel tower from its hillside location across the Seine, Design Hotel Sezz has one Parisian ‘must’ taken care of; but its intimate interiors, with color schemes calculated to echo Paris’ basic palette of beige stone, gray slate and blue-gray sky, offer a significant update on high-end French hospitality. The Sezz has become a fixture on international travel magazines’ Top 10 lists thanks to its design sharpness and intensely personal service, starting with the lack of reception desk: a personal assistant takes care of guests’ needs from the moment they enter the hotel, welcoming them with a drink. Philippe Starck’s protégé Christophe Pillet is responsible for the interiors, which feature a comeback for chrome and leather in the 26 guestrooms (including 12 suites and 1 Eiffel suite). Beds made of those two materials, chrome tables, red leather seating, glass chandeliers by Mazzega, and tubs for two all contribute to a more than slightly decadent, sharp-edged design feeling that harkens back to over-the-top decades past. The bar downstairs offers alcoves in the shape of rose petals as well as the first Veuve Cliquot bar in Paris, open from after breakfast until late. It all adds up to high-design indulgence that is steeped in its romantic locale.
Visit Made by Originals to meet the creative spirits behind this hotel.
Kube Hotel, Paris
Tucked into a tiny, quiet street at the summit of Paris’ Montmartre is a retro-future hotel that defies the classical clichés of Paris, fitting rather into a Jacques Tati vision of modernity. Kube Hotel combines a resolutely geometric sense of architecture, as its name suggests, with a 1960s sci-fi theme in its furnishings and décor, producing a feast for the eyes and senses.
Behind a Haussmanian façade, a glowing Plexiglass cube serves as Kube’s reception area, reminiscent of I.M. Pei’s pyramids in the Louvre’s courtyard. A cavernous lobby-cum-restaurant-cum-bar serves as the heart of Kube Hotel, a futuristic, low-lit space with high ceilings, stainless steel accents and a state-of-the-art-sound system camouflaged in red ceiling lanterns. The ultra-trendy “Ice Kube” bar on the mezzanine features Aeero Aarnio’s 1968 Bubble Chairs and a vodka-only drinks menu.
On the other hand, the 26 guestrooms and 15 suites, arranged around hotel Kube’s open courtyard, provide a counterbalancing warmth, with high colour contrast, faux-fur accents and bean-bag chairs as well as beds lit from beneath, giving a slightly unearthly edge to the warmth. Biometric fingerprint technology controls room access. The overall effect at Kube Hotel is of an oddly comfy space capsule, a fun version of the future.
Hotel De Sers Paris
Hotel de Sers in Paris exemplifies a building that fits magnificently is its new role as a hotel because the current owners’ expensive and extensive renovation retained the initial feel and the structural bones of the original mansion, and managed to insert today’s touches in a way that does not feel like a pretentious afterthought.
Today, Hotel de Sers has 45 rooms, four junior suits, two large suites with terraces that overlook all of the splendor of Paris, and one 80-square-meter apartment. The original building was a four-storey mansion designed by architect Jules Pellechet in 1880 for Henri-Leopold Charles, the latest comforts, technology and amenities to the rooms, but the new never overpowers the French classical elements.
The designer touches – such as modern, sculptural occasional tables, and chairs and cushions covered in retro-floral fabrics – and a Scandinavian, modernist feel, but it all seems to somehow belong in this environment that is resplendent with gold, and old paining and red velvet. Not an easy balance to achieve. – Tuija Seipell
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Le Royal Monceau Hotel – Paris
In Le Royal Monceau, Philippe Starck has created a classic. Two years after possibly the wildest ‘demolition party’ in history, Paris’ newest palace hotel is THE place to stay.
The location itself is a winner: Five minutes’ walk from Arc De Triomphe and Champs-Elysées.
The entry to Le Royal Monceau is super-grand, from the six doormen to the first glimpse of the foyer — it feels like you’ve walked onto the movie set of Eyes Wide Shut. The luxe-chic interiors are the grandest we’ve seen but it’s somehow magically NOT over the top. It works in Paris; it really works wonderfully.We were upgraded to the hotel’s best suite on the top floor with an attic-style roof. We entered a room to find a service of croissants, macaroons, coffee, water, grapes and oranges presented in a way fit for a president. The room has a small lounge with a large mirror leaning against the wall like a painting. The mirror miraculously becomes a TV with a switch of the remote control.
While the bed with its Italian crisp linen is divine, the bathroom is a real eye-opener. It’s like ‘Studio 54 meets a Puff Daddy video’ or like bathing on the face of a Chanel diamond wrist watch. All mirrors on every wall. You either love it or hate it.
Le Royal Monceau has it all, including all the beautiful people. The in-crowd has found it and the breakfast room was buzzing with film directors, actors models, advertising gurus, fashion types ; everyone dressed immaculately looking like a tear-sheet from Paris Vogue.
Power meetings were happening over lunch and at dinner/drinks. The place was buzzing with the most flamboyant characters we’ve seen in a while and literally every night was busy. We can only imagine the vibe of this place when Paris Fashion Week comes along! – Bill Tikos
Hôtel Opéra Opal
The Best Western Premier Opera Opal is a luxury 4 star hotel located on the right bank of the Seine River next to the Place de la Madeleine in Paris Golden triangle. The hotel enjoys a very convenient location for visiting the most prestigious monuments and sights of Paris. A few steps from the Garnier National Opera and the Haussmann department stores, this pleasant boutique hotel is in a walking distance of the Place de la Concorde, the Louvre and the Champs Elysees. This hotel offers a luxurious and warm setting with its very stylish and contemporary interior delicately bathed in light and fitted with harmonious design furniture.
Chai 33
In Bercy Village in the 12th district, this fun and trendy bar-restaurant dedicated to wine is a large and very lively contemporary brasserie. The menu combines seasonal dishes, Asin references and Chai favourite to suit all tastes and all budgets. Every table features the “wine key”, so that customers can go down to the cellar to choose their bottle of wine from over 300 options. Two beautiful patios overlook the Cour Saint-Emilion and Bercy Park.
Café Germain
Another project from the Costes family, those purveyors of Paris lounge cool, this time calling on the interior decoration services of India Mahdavi, who New Yorkers might know from The Hotel on the Rivington and APT, and Londoners from Suka, so the tone has long been set for this there-level café-brasserie.
The décor is more pop-tastic than you might have expected – pink pool table, black-and-white floor tiles and Xavier Vaihan’s massive Sophie sculpture, whose yellow bosom sinks into the floor of one level with the backside coming down the celling of another – but the real surprise is the pedestrian menu. Fish and chips or spaghetti Bolognese, anyone? Chase with a banana split or, as your fellow eurotrash diners, a more than respectable mojito.
For something more secluded than the sceney bar and dining areas, but definitely not any less fancy, then make a booking for the private Germain Paradisio bar and screening room downstairs.
Hotel Thoumieux
The 15-room Parisian boutique Hotel Thoumieux in the Left Bank is yet another cool, art-deco-ish creation by Thierry Costes and designer India Mahadavi.
Located above the popular Thoumieux Brasserie, the hotel also offers its own significant culinary input in the form of the 20-seat dining room Jean-Francois Piege, where Chef Jean-Francois Piege is apparently creating gastronomic masterpieces.
The dining room’s tongue-in-check décor, also by India Mahdavi, exudes a somewhat out-dated and perhaps even a bit under worldly glamor of a bygone-era – potted plants on doilies and elaborate wallpapers included. The pastelly furnishings, carpets and wall treatments bring out an aura of an elderly, once-quite-elegant aunt, who would not allow you to enter the room with a drippy chocolate ice cream cone.
L’Arc Paris, Restaurant-Bar & Club
L’Arc Paris, Restaurant-Bar & Club, has been open for four months and at least the Club has already become the place where you go if you want to be with the chic, the famous and the beautiful. Mostly, you go there to be seen.
Last month, one of the must-see occasions at the Club was the Chloé Van Paris’s Fashion Burlesque Ball, a masquerade where the dress code, according to the Club’s Facebook page. Party – Club Party was “13 cm heels, nylon, glamorous stockings, retro, pine-up, dandy, sexy, smart and glamorous.” At the Restaurant, chef Antony Germani (of L’Atelier Joël Robuchon) presides over menus of seasonal everything-made-from-scratch delicacies.
L’Arc occupies the former premises of l’Etoile Nightclub at 12 rue de Presbourg, with views of Arc de Triomphe but it was completely redesigned by Cannes-based Prospect Design.
Prospect was established in 1996 by Samy Chams (and expanded into Dubai in 2005) whose night-club design work includes VIP Room in St Tropez, Baili in Cannes, and Maddox and Movida in London. – Tuija Seipell
Modern Dream House Ecole
This chic Parisien apartment is only 95 square meters (approx 1,000 square feet) and occupies the two top floors of an 18th-century building in the heart of Paris. Facing Eglise Saint-Gervais on one side and the Hôtel de Ville de Paris on the other, this was one apartment that was always going to profit from the cost of a full renovation.
The first floor formerly consisted of a long corridor and four rooms and had to be redesigned to provide for larger, more open living areas. To achieve this, the entrance, the main living area and the kitchen were formed into a single continuity without any strong transitional definitions. The guest space (a bedroom and a bathroom) was also built into the first floor design.
To provide access to the upper floor, without consuming valuable living space, a specially-designed steel staircase was built that gets it support from mounting fixtures inside the wall. This gives the staircase a floating feel and makes for an incredible contemporary feature in the home. The second floor is the owner’s private area. We love the minimalist design and the contemporary and chic color scheme, the white walls being necessary to add a sense of spaciousness to the apartment and the black accenting and contrasting impecabbly. It’s as if Chanel had designed it herself!
Fabulous Modern Maison NW Home Office Interior Design
Maison NW office is really modern home office design with colorful home office wall and fabulous home office interior design by Nathalie Wolberg. You will see fabulous home office interior design with colorful home office wall at Maison NW office. This modern home office design is located in Saint-Quen, near Paris with 1,937 square ft area. This fabulous home office design is fulfill with modern home office furniture completed with colorful home office wall in all area. Colorful home office wall looks in kitchen area, bathroom, working area, and relaxation room. Some beds for lie, kitchen furniture, bathroom furniture, desk and chair are examples of modern home office furniture in this modern home office. In here, you also can see unique staircase design. Unique staircase design connects all level in this modern home office design.
Martin Grants Paris Home
I assume that many of us have the basic idea of interior design. As what our masters in design mentors have said, we should match items of the same them, color, and more. Therefore, we end up designing our contemporary homes with modern and elegant home décor and furniture pieces and old houses with antiques and the like. However, the Paris Home of Australian born fashion designer Martin Grant shows that even classic homes can be matched flawlessly with contemporary home decors and furniture sets. Martin was able to create an eye-catching contrast of his white painted wall against the dark timber floors. Furniture pieces are a combination of glass, wood, metal, and fabric that went along enough creating an elegant and modern home interior with a contemporary ambiance.
Dream Homes: Paris Apartment by Pascal Grasso
One of the greatest things about Paris is that there’s never a shortage of architectural wonders, from Old World buildings and palatial museums to Gothic cathedrals and manicured parks. But sometimes the ornate building facades lining the cobblestone streets are far from telling of what’s on the inside, like this pristine and modern Paris apartment designed by the architect Pascal Grasso and his team.
Recently completed and located in the heart of the City of Light, this 3,000-square-feet apartment was created for a private client who asked Grasso and his team to add coherence to the space so that the main floor would be connected to a preexisting large terrace.
Grasso rearranged the bedrooms on the first floor to maximize on space for the living room and terrace. The resulting renovation allows for the main living area to open directly on to the terrace.
One of the most striking architectural elements in the apartment includes a series of rectangular plaster structures that are suspended from the ceiling at varying heights. These box-like structures not only add visual intrigue to the apartment, but they also conceal lighting and air conditioning vents.
R House Modern Home Design in France by Colboc Franzen & Associés
Luxury Home Design, modern home design. This is R House by Colboc Franzen & Associés. In the city Servres outside Paris, France. This house design is a luxurious and modern home design, a unique and wonderful house in three sections form the gate stack overhang and is located on a small hillside overlooking the impressive and beautiful. [Colboc Franzen via Reflexdeco]
Be-Green Houses in Paris
Roof of photovoltaic panels and thermal hot water system allows the houses of this continuous function of the grid, while green roofs and living walls do their part to preserve the environment while adding organic atmosphere to urban homes. And because learning is the key to enlightenment and, in the long run, changes, this house features a monitoring system that tells people exactly how much energy they use and when, which allows them to adjust consumption.
This eco house design incorporating passive solar technology, and using natural and recycled materials such as hardwood floors with VOC-free finish. This pair of contemporary house plan combines all the essentials into a colorful, bright design. Sustainable eco and sustainable urban architectural design house located in the front line in Batimat show in Paris. Some spaces, such as washing clothes and terrace, designed as a common room, while others are conventional by all accounts – apart from their extraordinary appeal environmentally friendly. Be the aptly named Green House is actually easy to prove that Green, and it can be done in total comfort and style.
