A five star summer Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme

A hidden jem of elegance nestled on Rue de la Paix, in the former fashion house of the first fashion star, Jeanne Paquin, the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme is the most recent of the Parisian palaces. Ideally located, just steps from the jewelers of Place Vendôme and a stone’s throw from the Opera and department stores, the Louvre and the Rue Saint- Honoré, it is immersed in the tumult of Parisian life, reassuring like a sheltered port where the urban explorer can rest in total voluptuousness. Here, luxury elevates, it mixes with works of art, paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, contemporary photos, from the palace’s collection (consisting of 80% of practicing artists), including bronzes by Roselyne Granet. Present on all floors, in common areas as in the 111 rooms and 45 suites – including the Signature suites equipped with a private spa and large balconies opening onto Paris in majesty – it reflects the desire of its decorator Ed Tuttle to create an exclusive and familiar place, as if inhabited. The famous interior architect, who presided over all the hotel’s renovations until his death in 2020, had free rein to reinterpret the Haussmann architectural elements of the building, the Parisian stone, the canopies, the colonnades, the mirrors, the gilding, modernized in continuity, inscribing his language even in custom furniture. It must be said that the Park Hyatt hotel chain has woven an intimate link with decoration, its founder Jay Pritzker having also created the prestigious Pritzker architecture prize in 1979. The attention to detail is therefore absolute, down to the olfactory imprint created by the nose Blaise Mautin, which permeates the atmosphere with scents of powdered patchouli, Russian leather and Florida orange.