Grand Pigalle Hotel in Paris.

Welcome to the Grand Pigalle Hotel. Inspired by a lifetime of friendship, Romée de Goriainoff, Pierre-Charles Cros and Olivier Bon have spent the better part of the last decade dedicated to hospitality in cocktail bars, wine bars and restaurants, seeking to create a new kind of locale, one that is rich, cultivated, comfortable, and casual.

Opening onto the villas of the avenue Frochot, the private estate where Toulouse-Lautrec once lived, the 37 rooms of the Grand Pigalle Hotel choose liveliness over nostalgia. It is the neighbourhood’s contemporary history that is referenced in the interior design of Dorothée Meilichzon (CHZON).

The ground floor, a space for reception and the wine bar, transforms throughout the day to capture the moods of the city: its desires and incomparable energy – its hedonism like no other. Here, the spirit of “Bed & Beverage” reigns. Open in a classically Parisian building, at the corner of rues Victor-Massé and Henry Monnier, the rooms of the Grand Pigalle embody the revival of this historic neighbourhood. Charming rooms under the eaves of the top floor, balconies eying the tree-lined passages of the avenue Frochot, original mouldings, fireplaces, aged and textured wallpaper, brass lamps and handles, bathroom tiles… all of this revives the eternal bohemian spirit of this artist-adored Parisian neighbourhood. The octagonal design, symbolic even of the form of the South Pigalle quartier, is a leitmotif of décor: custom-made mahogany desks, drawer handles and doorknobs, window frames, wallpaper details, etc.

In the corridors, the entertaining thick “martini” carpet designed by the designer Dorothée Meilichzon leads the way to the golden pineapples affixed to the doors, which then open into a room replete with cocktail “minibars” and rolling carts.

The Grand Pigalle Hotel is an open book for cultivated travellers, those who know that the elegance of a sojourn is as much about respect for a cosmopolitan savoir-vivre as it is for the discovery of strong local cultures.

[Images courtesy of Grand Pigalle Hotel.]