Hotel Lutetia

Hotel WILMOTTE & ASSOCIÉS ARCHITECTS

Paris, France ARCHITECT Jean-Michel Wilmotte PROJECT Hotel Lutetia DESCRIPTION With over a century of history and a peculiar architecture halfway through Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Hotel Lutetia is an icon of the Parisian rive gauche. It is the only luxury grand hotel on the Left Bank. A four-year renovation project has brought its original charm up to date.

“Our purpose was to recreate the atmosphere of the original Lutetia for today’s requirements”.

“We designed things that were very difficult to produce and Poliform Contract always found the right solution”.

JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE Jean-Michel Wilmotte is one of the top 100 architects in the world. After graduating at the École Camondo in Paris, he created his own firm in 1975 and achieved recognition as an influential interior designer after working for the Louvre, where he designed the temporary exhibition spaces, bookshop, and restaurants beneath the Ieoh Ming Pei pyramid. Though he is fond of designing museums and cultural spaces, as well as refurbishing architectural heritage, throughout his career Jean-Michel Wilmotte has branched out from furniture and industrial design to large-scale projects...

Last but not least, a very fascinating aspect is art. The hotel was built in 1910, a period when art and architecture were transitioning from Art Nouveau to Art Deco. The façade has windows and balusters decorated with impressive angels, trellises and grapes, while the walls of the ground floor feature high quality frescoes, friezes and bas-reliefs. What is the main concept behind the new Hotel Lutetia? Our goal was to recreate the atmosphere of the original Lutetia for today’s requirements. We didn’t want to do a pastiche, nor a copy of what the Lutetia was before: it was more about our interpretation....

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