Second Boutique Radisson Blu Property in Paris Offers Modern Design Highlights and Eiffel Tower Views
The Rezidor Hotel Group, the Brussels-based hotel management company, announces the opening of the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan, Paris Eiffel. This marks the second Radisson Blu boutique hotel to debut in Paris this year.
French designer François Champsaur oversaw the renovation of the former private residence, giving the Haussmanian building contemporary interiors that contrast with the 19th Century structure and play with notions of space and perspective.
Located in the 16th arrondissement, the 48-key boutique hotel features ten suites, five with unrestricted Eiffel Tower views. The signature Eiffel Suite is a 430-square-foot one-bedroom suite located on the sixth floor. Features include an airy all-white palette, breath-taking Eiffel Tower views and private access to the hotel's swimming pool and Hammam. All guestrooms offer complimentary unlimited WiFi, bathrooms made from Zimbabwean granite with Anne Sémonin bath amenities and LCD widescreen televisions with video on demand.
The hotel's restaurant, the Metropolitan, is situated on the ground floor, giving guests a front-row seat to the Trocadéro and local street life. Champsaur considered transparency the theme for the restaurant's sleek interiors, using subdued lighting, voile curtains and glass walls to create a unique sense of space apart from the hotel but connected to street life.
Chef Melina Allair, who recently worked with Alain Ducasse at the Domaine des Andéols in Provence, offers a neo-classical Mediterranean menu with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients. Mid-day, the restaurant is open as a tea room, offering teas from French luxury tea salon The O Dor for up to 40 guests.
The bar at the Metropolitan offers signature cocktails from Alain Duquesne, who has also worked with Hotel George V and the Ritz Paris. The bar features a steel and brass bar, deep blue walls, and views of the Eiffel Tower.
Additional hotel amenities include a wellness center offering Anne Sémonin treatments in a white Thassos marble massage room with a fireplace. The wellness center also features a Hammam and indoor swimming pool.
The Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan joins another recently opened boutique hotel in Paris, the Radisson Blu Le Dokhan's, which debuted in February 2009. Rezidor's portfolio of Radisson Blu Hotels & Resorts in France also includes five other Paris properties, as well as hotels in Les Arc, Aix-Les-Bains, Biarritz, Lyon, Marseille and Nice.
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