Pershing Hall
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"The boutique hotel of 26 rooms surrounds a stunning tropical garden courtyard, situated just minutes from the Champs-Elysees."
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.
Recommended by Mr & Mrs Smith
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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
This boutique hotel opened in in 2001 but was redecorated when guests found the original Andree Putman designs a little too severe. High points include the quiet location in the 8th and the garden courtyard with wall of tropical plants is relaxing in summer. Highly trendy clientele."The boutique hotel of 26 rooms surrounds a stunning tropical garden courtyard, situated just minutes from the Champs-Elysees."
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.
"The boutique hotel of 26 rooms surrounds a stunning tropical garden courtyard, situated just minutes from the Champs-Elysees."
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"The boutique hotel of 26 rooms surrounds a stunning tropical garden courtyard, situated just minutes from the Champs-Elysees."
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What our clients have said
| Excellent stay - very friendly staff and comfortable, stylish surrounds. | ||
| Posted by Neil Blair on Tuesday 2 May 2006 |
| Chic hotel that seems ever so slightly past its prime. The furnishings in the lobby appear somewhat worn, though the spectacular garden atrium makes for a great place to have drinks after dinner or a night spent out. The staff was also highly professional- particularly the host of the bar (forget his name, but he was actually an American guy of African descent), who was gracious and charming. The rooms are small, as should be expected, but the bathrooms are surprisingly large and luxurious. I'd definitely stay there again, all this considered. Its more laid-back and well-suited for people in their twenty-somethings (who have some money to spend) than the comparables in the 8th arrondisement. | ||
| Posted by David Beach on Friday 21 April 2006 |
| Pershing Hall is absolutely fantastic. My girlfriend and I only stayed there for the weekend but would have loved to have stayed longer. We initially booked a standard room but on arrival we were upgraded to a Junior Suite! Just off from Champs Elysees it’s close to all the lovely restaurants and attractions in Paris. Staff were so friendly and polite and would recommend this place to anyone who is looking for a really cool place to stay. | ||
| Posted by Thomas Clark on Wednesday 19 April 2006 |
| Thank you for organinsing our stay in Paris. We had the most relaxing, sybaritic time, and were very impressed with the service and efficiency, both at your end and at Pershing Hall - which definitely lived up to the hype! As I believe I mentioned to you, I suffer from ME so travelling is always tiring - but I came back feeling stronger than when I left, which is the mark of an excellent hotel in my estimation! | ||
| Posted by Beth O'Brien on Wednesday 11 January 2006 |
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.
"The boutique hotel of 26 rooms surrounds a stunning tropical garden courtyard, situated just minutes from the Champs-Elysees."
