HOTEL REVIEW


ABOVE LEFT: Room designs feature built in desks, Louis XV style armchairs, open bathrooms with rectangular units combining basin and minibar, and theatrical black dressing tables ABOVE: Frandsen Lighting created “the Spark” – a central lighting feature around which the design concept is based


the Napoléon III period. On the mezzanine level, the Arola restaurant has been designed for Spanish executive chef Sergi Arola’s contemporary take on tapas. Flamenco-style red rose motif fringed place settings could come out of a play by Lorca and agua potable ceramic plaques are modelled on Barcelona manhole covers. With 91 rooms and suites in eight


categories, the five floors of bedrooms follow the dominant black and white colour scheme, with blue, amber, red, green or cream accents in upholstery, curtains and bedcovers. Here The Spark treatment recurs but in a more discreet form: dressing corridor windows, as a long panel outside each door, and repeated in varying forms inside the rooms. The furnishings are surprisingly eclectic: panelled bedheads that disintegrate towards the spark; thick glass and steel built-in desks; low black leather sofas; revisited parquet carpet and wire


chandeliers; Louis XV style bergère armchairs where the decor has melted away on one arm. A large wooden wall element contains the TV, fold-down luggage rack and assorted niches for books or artworks. Some rooms feature open bathrooms, where a rectangular unit incorporating the basin and minibar provides the divider between bedroom and bathroom, while some suites have walk-in wardrobes and theatrical black dressing tables. For the “Extreme Wow” suites occupying


the prime corner spot, the original architecture is largely left to speak for itself, with floor to ceiling windows, period fireplace and panelled doors, but dressed up – one door conceals a voyeuristic view of the glass-sided shower, and the three-meter-diameter circular leather bed, occupying centre stage beneath the circular ceiling moulding, can be pulled apart with sofas on either side. “It’s really a party room,” concludes Gronda.


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W Paris Opéra 4 rue Meyerbeer 75009 Paris France Tel: +33 1 77 48 94 94 www.wparisopera.com


„ 91 rooms and suites ‰ Arola Restaurant  Living Room bar [ Sweat gym + Two meeting rooms


Owner / Developer: Meridia Capital Operator: W Hotels (Starwood Hotels & Resorts) Interior Design: Rockwell Group Europe


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