Now, since its reopen­ing, every­thing is pos­si­ble in a place where sleep was once unthink­able: din­ing, par­ty­ing, bathing and sleep­ing. Win­ner of sev­eral Miche­lin stars, con­sult­ing chef Philippe Labbé devel­ops culi­nary delights for the restau­rant while the adja­cent bar offers sophis­ti­cated cock­tails. Dan­ish design fur­ni­ture is grouped under a dark red lac­quered ceil­ing dome. Echo­ing the build­ing’s his­tory, investor Jean-Pierre Marois cre­ated a kind of minia­ture club in the base­ment, where he plans to host con­certs and par­ties – and in trib­ute to ear­lier days, even a pool has been installed again. 

 

Chic not osten­ta­tious – this was the motto guid­ing inte­rior designer Tris­tan Auer, who fur­nished the 39 guest rooms in the upper storeys and Denis Mon­tel, who designed the restau­rant. Auer’s com­po­si­tion of black room doors, con­crete-coloured wall ele­ments, ash grey car­pet­ing, under­stated glass tables and ebony shelv­ing com­bines mod­ern design with the clas­sic ele­ments of the orig­i­nal build­ing. Show­pieces like the rust-coloured vel­vet sofas are rem­i­nis­cent of Andy Warhol’s New York Fac­tory. All these dif­fer­ent touches coa­lesced into a work of art recently crowned with the Euro­pean Hotel Design Award. 

 

The inte­rior design­ers selected a line of Axor brand fit­tings for the bath­rooms. Wash­basins, wash­basin mix­ers and shower pipes are all from the Axor Bouroul­lec col­lec­tion, which befits the his­tory of Les Bains like no other line. The design by the French broth­ers Ronan and Erwan Bouroul­lec is based on the idea of flex­i­bil­ity and indi­vid­u­al­ity. The shelves flow seam­lessly into one another, some­times even on var­i­ous lev­els, and offer ample space for toi­letries. Del­i­cate organic shapes give the mix­ers an under­stated design lan­guage that blends well with the over­all inte­rior design. 

 

The mix­ers of the Axor Mon­treux col­lec­tion are in keep­ing with the aes­thet­ics of the Hauss­mann era when the bath­house was built. Their ele­gant sweep com­ple­ments the free­stand­ing bath­tubs in the Belle Époque style. Hotel guests who enjoy show­er­ing out­side can do so on room ter­races equipped with the Axor Show­er­pipe by Front. The inte­rior design­ers chose a spe­cial sur­face fin­ish – a brushed red­dish-gold – from the Axor Man­u­fak­tur for the shower set, which con­sists of a ther­mo­stat, hand shower and adjustable over­head shower. Its design is rem­i­nis­cent of cop­per pipes, fun­nels and valves and radi­ates indus­trial charm. 

 

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