Jules Pellechet designed the Haussmannian hôtel particulier on Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie in 1880 for the Marquis de Sers, and the bones of that commission — a monumental marble staircase, a carriage entrance wide enough for horse-drawn coaches, an original salon de réception with ornate plasterwork moldings — survived conversion to a hotel in 1935 and two subsequent renovations. The Hôtel de Sers reopened in June 2025 following a complete interior overhaul by Pascal Allaman, who threaded contemporary warmth through Pellechet's inherited architecture across 45 rooms and 7 suites. Allaman's palette moves between the warm and the graphic: oak parquet in a classic chevron pattern underfoot, full-height wall paneling in pale oak, and rounded boucle armchairs in rooms where balconies look out over Parisian zinc rooftops. The suites introduce lacquered folding screens printed with fantastical animal tableaux, contemporary collage works in dark frames, and sage-green upholstery that pulls the eye away from the terracotta accents running through the textiles and rugs. The bar takes a different mood altogether: tobacco-brown cylindrical lounge chairs arranged around a marble-fronted counter, a patterned carpet in amber and slate, and a ceiling installation of overlapping gold and white forms that hovers above the room like frozen foliage. The restaurant courtyard brings in wicker pendant lights and dense plantings of banana and bird-of-paradise, giving one of the Golden Triangle's most storied addresses an unlikely flash of jungle warmth.

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