Lutetia's lobbies and hallways are filled with the ornate Art Deco its founder was devoted to, including ubiquitous Cesar statuary, Lalique chandeliers, Takis sculptures and leaded glass windows. I always skip the elevator and take the stairs going down because the circular-style stairwell offers a virtual gallery of Art Deco ocean liner and locomotive posters. The ocean liner theme is continued in the stylized table settings of the hotel's Paris Restaurant. Lutetia maintains its own in-house art consultants, Sonia Rykiel and Sybil de Margerie, who attends to such details. Special guests stay in it during most of the year when Arman is not on the property.
All rooms are as authentically stylized as the rest of the hotel.
Antique armoires, spacious beds, art deco fixtures, and other fine furnishings are ensconced in high-ceiling sleeping rooms, many with accessible masonry balconies. An airy bathroom with private chamber appeals to one's most personal space. The desk is a little too cluttered by a fax machine that I would never use. And the desk set-up itself makes a phone and electrical connection for a laptop very inconvenient. In my experience, the phones work often but not always.