Few addresses in Paris carry a stranger lineage than this one: a 1950s building in the 6th arrondissement that passed through life as a dance and theatre school before a stint as a Holiday Inn, and has now become Hôtel Dame des Arts, one of the city's most considered independent openings of 2023. The transformation belongs to Raphaël Navot — named Maison&Objet Designer of the Year the same year the hotel launched — and his approach is immediately legible in every surface: fluted oak panels warm the guest rooms from floor to ceiling, bamboo and brushed stone appear throughout the public spaces, and the steel-gridded facade, glowing amber at night, carries the feeling of something between a Parisian atelier and a Modernist archive. Inside, Navot's bespoke pieces dominate. The sculptural side tables on their tapered cast legs sit beside channelled linen headboards, a display shelf of curated objects above each bed creating the effect of a personal library rather than a hotel room. The restaurant extends the same language — deep midnight-blue banquettes, a textured ceiling lit from within, a warmth that pulls the room inward. Then the rooftop opens everything up: a deck terrace across Paris's zinc-and-lead horizon, the Eiffel Tower and the dome of the Invalides framed between umbrella canopies, the whole city laid at eye level. The 109 rooms feel like the quiet below a performance that happens up there.

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Located in the Latin Quarter, the beating artistic heart of Paris, Hôtel Dame des Arts embodies the spirit of freedom, culture and creativity of the Left Bank. Whether from your terrace room overlooking the Eiffel Tower, our Rooftop Bar with panoramic view, or our secret garden courtyard, you will see a side of Paris reserved for the few.