Hôtel de Montesquieu

By association, the travelers to this new 4-star Parisian hotel, designed by Elliott Barnes, can be seen as multiple contemporary reincarnations of Uzbek and Rica, protagonists of the epistolary novel Lettres Persanes, a veritable mirror of the Enlightenment's fascination with Orientalism.

Taking its inspiration from the writings of Montesquieu's two travelers, the hotel - with its 18 suites and junior suites - is conceived as an architectural cabinet of curiosities drawing on Middle Eastern and Asian cultures, at the crossroads of the Silk Route.

By repositioning certain objects that bear witness to another way of life, and assembling chromatic palettes inspired by the sublime Persian garden of Isfahan to the interiors of the Forbidden City in Beijing, influences merge to better reflect the eclecticism of our contemporary spirit.