It's a hotel born to become a trendy Parisian address and it has been completely renovated by the architect Philippe Maidenberg: here's a quick visit to the Louvre Montana hotel, a stone's throw from the Tuileries.

The entrance immediately sets the tone: between history and modernity with a colorful, bright and friendly atmosphere. In the reception, a library and its objects, nods to a certain idea of ​​culture and the art of living. Like books, classics that honor French literature.

The eye of the traveler wanders among these details, so many references to the city of light, and to France as one dreams of discovering it. No object is there by chance, whether in the entrance or in the rooms. It is a bias of the architect who, for example, wanted fireplaces in the rooms to remind people of Baron Haussmann who shaped the city. Same idea for velvets, oak parquet floors, custom-made ceramics that recall the art of French decoration.

There is no fad here: Philippe Maidenberg has been specializing in hotel architecture since 1991 and the architect above all likes to tell stories, far from any false effects of style. Among other achievements, he is known for the original concept of other astonishing hotels, in particular the Hôtel du Triangle d'Or or the 123 Sébastopol, with the participation, among others, of Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Lelouch, Ennio Morricone and Elsa Zylberstein.

Beautiful addresses to discover for a stopover in the capital of lights.