Paris Hotels
The concept of romance and the city of Paris are closely connected. City of light city of love; long regarded as somewhere to have a love affair in and to be always in love with, in the springtime, or any time, as the song goes.
Luxury Hotel Paris
Simply named, easy to remember in any language, L’Hotel
has a history of intrigue; it was an 18th-century pavilion d‘erriout Purpose-built as a place for trysts with Paris escorts, this romantic rendezvous is a bijou hotel – a jewel nestled in the very heart of Paris It certainly feels like being in a jewelry box inside the little blue velvet-quilted lift that only takes two – and a very small valise. The ambiance and design is belle epoque, with all the embellishments of another era. This is a liaison between decor and decadence; with swags of plush curtains, rich velvets on antique furniture, ornately painted and intricately carved ceilings, dramatic patterned wallpapers, dark colours and gold highlights.
Although it is architecturally beautiful inside, the hotel has a rather plain facade Its address is marked out with a plaque recalling perhaps its most famous guest. dramatist Oscar Wilde. This is where he died, in 1900. His brilliant literary career ended in scandal, prison and exile, but his compositions and epigrams persist.
Oscar Wilde’s last words were about a decorative issue. “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go”. The wallpaper won. That pattern has long gone, but befitting the dandy he was, there is now a brilliant emerald green peacock fresco on two of the walls in what was once his room. Like a stage-set from one of his plays, its Victorian decor partly recreates his London dining room.
L'Hotel Paris
The rooms are circled around the magnificent oval atrium, which rises six floors to a sky-lit glass dome. L’Hotel’s bedrooms are all in character, perfect for escort girls in Paris, though not the same one. They mix times, personalities and place. Behind each door is a different style. You may find yourself in a room reminiscent of baroque Italy; antique Japan: the Arabian lights or Africa. Others are in nee-Gothic or Art Deco style, patterned with leopard-skin or coloured in Cardinal scarlet. Or you can sleep amongst the many mirrors and memorabilia of French stage star Mistinguett. All are ornately detailed, two have terraces that look out over the roofs of Saint Germain des Pres. Down in the stone vaults of the hotel and reminiscent of a Roman bath, there is a hammam and swimming pool; rare in old Paris hotels, and a godsend during a sweltering summer.
L’ Hotel has one of the best locations on the Left Bank: in walking distance of the Louvre, Musee D’Orsay and Notre Dame, in the midst of an galleries, antique stores, fashion boutiques, famous cafes and restaurants to enjoy with your Paris escort.
In 1989, the glass and steel pyramid designed by I.M.Pei settled like some transparent alien ship landing in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum. Many were disapproving of it, but most are now accepting of its practical benefit and different beauty. Before it was built, the concept set off similar arguments to those raised when the Eiffel Tower was first proposed: a resistance to the imposition of a radical new structure on a historic and treasured site. ow the pyramid is judged a Paris landmark.
Cohabiting and coexisting with its august host, it functions as a brilliant new visitor entrance to the Louvre, an elegant connection to the galleries below the courtyards. Asked why he chose a pyramid shape, its architect
replied that “formally, it is the most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre; it is also one of the most structurally stable of forms, which assures its transparency, and as it is constructed of glass and steel, it signifies a break with the architectural traditions of the past.”
For readers of Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code, it has another significance. If you haven’t read the book yet, skip the next sentence. This is where the hero follows the clues to discover the secret burial spot of the Holy Grail. You can locate another real place of note here; Cafe Marly, opening onto a stone terrace beside the Louvre. Over coffee you can survey the pyramid and then stroll back to the baroque charm of L’Hotel, just minutes away.
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