Pershing Hall

Rates from EUR 290

Address Pershing Hall, 49 rue Pierre Charron, 75008 Paris, France
Telephone Bookings : UK Reservations 0845 227 0141
Rooms: 26 rooms, including 6 suites.

 

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Why stay at Pershing Hall?

Come for:
The 'vertical garden' in the courtyard
Spacious, muted rooms

Not suitable for:
Travellers requiring loads of facilities

Eating in:
The hotel’s restaurant is the preserve of Chef Hervé Courtot, formerly at Nobu Paris. It's open every day from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m; there's afternoon tea on the patio opposite the hanging garden. The Lounge Bar is ultra-fashionable - expensive cocktails, sky-high ceiling and DJs playing to a tiny dance floor packed with glamouristas.

Press quotes

"The hotel has Andrée Putman’s best interior work: a powerful combination of French contemporary sensibility and tradition.” Herbert Ypma in The Times 06

The Hotel Writes

Pershing Hall is housed in the first arrondissement, a townhouse that formely played host to the doughty veterans of the American Legion, Pershing Hall is Paris’s opulent take on the pared down hotel aesthetic. Two local entrepreneurs have invested 10 million dollars in a 99 years lease and an Andrée Putman redesign which has given the building a unique design. The building’s 19th-century façade was first restyled by General John J Pershing. Pershing was the American First World War general who ran the Axis powers out of town. He also found time to commission the American Eagle pediments and the aviator and infantryman roundels that still survive on the rococo exterior of this new monument to minimalism.

Some other architectural reminders of the building’s military past, such as the old Soldier’s Star iron work railing and the Victor’s Wreath garlands and pilasters in the salon, remain untouched but, overall, the classical and military motifs have been tempered with a little grooviness. Doorways are framed in solid American elm, and flooring alternates between dark oak parquet and coral flecked granite. Putman’s big set piece taking point is her vertical rainforest – a six storey façade in the courtyard, carpeted in Southeast Asian jungle foliage. A fibre optic cable that trails through the undergrowth illuminates the foliage at night. Other touches include a, lit from within, sanded glass ice cube bar in the DJ lounge and the recessed alcove above, which is furnished with porcelain plate lights and banquette seating in oyster – shell Maharam fabrics. Like so much that Putman does, the furnishings look conventional, but there’s always that one eccentric detail that gives them personality. The crystal ball knobs on the headboard of the beds, for example. Or the low riding easy chairs resting on transparent glass feet. A septuagenarian whose varied curriculum vitae includes Ian Schrager’s Morgans Hotel in New York, Karl Lagerfeld’s office at Chanel and a remodelling of the Concorde cabin for Air France, Putman knows that good design is the sum of its specific parts. "I’m always having to come up with new thing’s," Putman sighs, "and if the details come out wrong, the whole thing gets criticised." She pauses and switches from French to English. "God is in the details." Each of the 26 rooms is slightly different, yet all are deployed in Putman’s discreetly sybaritic style. In the white on white rooms, lacquered ivory bed frames mix with airy white print gauze curtains, while full length vanity mirrors are concealed in oak armoires. Sliding doors separate the footed bathtub from the bedroom which come fitted with flat screen Bang & Olufsen television sets and integrated DVD.

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What our clients have said

Jamie Dunford Wood's Review of Pershing Hall

This mini-Costes of just 26 rooms is named after the American general Pershing that stayed in the building during the war. What he would make of Pershing Hall’s trance music, the dimly lit corridors and the space-ship décor – mixed with 70s retro – is anybody’s guess. All this design hotel is missing is one of Pershing’s tanks outside.

The facilities

Pershing Hall has become one of the leading design hotels in Paris, and design groupies will appreciate its style. The most pleasing feature here is the courtyard garden, with its retractable roof. A wall of moist greenery tumbles down one end. The design hotel is always full of fashionable diners and drinkers, and they do a wonderful Sunday brunch with jazz. In the evenings the bar is buzzing, sometimes with a DJ.

The rooms

The design hotel’s 26 rooms benefit from the building’s tall ceilings giving them a spacious feel. The white walls and blond wood built-in cupboards give the rooms a stark, Spartan but new-age feel. Sinks are of the farmhouse variety, with bathrooms of grey/brown slate and travertine marble.

At the design hotel only suites and some juniors have power showers and tubs – otherwise it’s a choice of one or the other. Some of the smaller junior suites have balconies. Street side rooms have tall elegant traditional windows – elsewhere the windows are modern.