Pressed between a nineteenth-century Romanesque church and the rooftops of Cannes' centre-ville, with the old port and the Suquet hill visible from its upper floors, the Five Seas Hotel makes its most arresting gesture at the very top: a glass-balustrated rooftop pool whose mosaic-tiled floor catches the Riviera light and throws it back across the terrace in shifting blue. The building itself is a considered contemporary insertion into a dense urban grain, its white rendered facade stepping up five floors to a roof deck that functions as the property's social heart, the bar and restaurant extending behind full-height glazing under a canopy of suspended greenery and lantern pendants. Inside, the interiors — designed by Jouin Manku, the Paris studio founded by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku — establish a palette of warm caramel leather, cream plaster, and natural-fibre carpet that softens what might otherwise feel like a tight urban hotel. Bedrooms gain character from their adjacency to the church next door: arched stonework fills the windows of certain rooms like a living altarpiece, the medieval masonry framed by dark steel profiles and floor-length linen curtains. Upper-floor suites shift the mood to a bolder register, pairing red upholstered armchairs against warm oak and cove-lit ceilings, a brass telescope trained on the Le Suquet skyline. The 45-room property manages a genuine civic confidence — somewhere that belongs to Cannes rather than simply landing in it.

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