There's a working fireplace in its columned salon, recently refurbished pastel walls, flowered fabrics in all 22 rooms, and Porthault towels in the bathrooms. Limited room service is available, a real rarity in small Parisian hotels. The private home-style d cor is due to a fresh redesign by Christian Badin of David Hicks. Pierre Frey floral-print fabrics, charmingly unmatched modern and antique furnishings, and landscape paintings. The lobby is discreetly club-like and contemporary, in shades of deep forest green and golden yellow.
Standard doubles come with queen-size beds.
Two superior doubles and one junior suite have small private terraces covered in ivy, like Room 18. The location is slightly away from the action, on a residential avenue near the Invalides, but it's refreshingly quiet and traffic-free. The staff is exceptionally courteous as well. Protest groups were even formed. But after more than a year, it's fairly certain that tradition has won the day.