Hotel Saint-Marc, Paris.

In April 2016, Paris’ latest must-stay hotel opened in the city’s stylish Second Arrondissement. Hotel Saint-Marc is located in an eighteenth-century building that once served as the private residence of Duc de Choiseul—a celebrated military officer and diplomat—and later housed the famous Jazz Age restaurant, Le Poccardi. In 2013, Nadia Murano and Denis Nourry, owners of the fashionable Hôtel du Petit Moulin in Paris’ Marais district, acquired the flagging structure and set out to create a hotel that payed homage to the building’s past, while paving the way for its future.

 

Murano and Nourry enlisted Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci of Milan’s much-talked-about DIMORESTUDIO to reinvigorate the space. Over the next two years, DIMORESTUDIO oversaw a painstaking restoration, ultimately creating a chic, yet inviting haven that blends Art Deco elegance with 1970s-style glamour through its sleek lines, rich materials, and bold patterns and palette.

The Hotel Saint-Marc's lobby.
The Hotel Saint-Marc's Breakfast Room.

As soon as you step into the Hotel Saint-Marc’s lobby—a black and white marble marvel complete with Fontana Arte lamps, dusky rose walls, and sumptuous velvet upholstery—you get a sense of the restrained sophistication that awaits you at every turn. In the lounge, guests can kick up their feet in one of the room’s Art Deco-inspired armchairs in velvet and gilt metal and enjoy a drink from the Honesty Bar, while the sun-filled Breakfast Room boasts jewel-tone club chairs and polished white glass and brass pendant lights by DIMORESTUDIO design. Guests can also relax in the Hotel Saint-Marc’s newly created patio, which blends the best of the past and the present with its cobblestone flooring and graphic, striped walls.

The Hotel Saint-Marc's patio.
A guest room at the Hotel Saint-Marc.

 

The upper floors are home to the Hotel Saint-Marc’s twenty-six guest rooms, which are differentiated mainly by their colors—mustard yellow, burgundy red, pine green, and sky blue—and materials. Each room features a mix of vintage and contemporary objects, including pieces designed by the artisans of Italy's Murano islands, as well as furniture that has been either custom made or modified by DIMORESTUDIO. For the hotel’s top-floor suite, DIMORESTUDIO employed a unique design scheme characterized by its alternating deep and pastel colors, and velvet, wooden, and metal furniture, including a brass headboard by Osvaldo Borsani. While distinct in their own way, each room is united by its inviting and intimate atmosphere.

 

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* All images courtesy of Hotel Saint-Marc.