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"As old-world Art Deco haunts go, you could do worse than the Prince de Galles.\n\nBuilt in 1928 as a royal roost for the Prince of Wales when he was in town\u2014thus the name\u2014and now part of Starwood's Luxury Collection, the 159-room grande dame hotel on Paris's tony Avenue George V has just reopened after a two-and-a-half-year, $100 million redo overseen by luxe master Pierre-Yves Rochon, whose recent work at the Peninsula Shanghai hotel and at London's Savoy and Four Seasons have won raves.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe lobby's rich Macassar ebony furnishings are complemented by gleaming golden light fixtures.\n\nPalatial spaces and decadent details abound in top-shelf Paris hotels, mais oui, but rare is the property that has embraced the city's dynamic Deco decades. Given that, and the era of the hotel's construction, Rochon decided to return the building to its roots.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe courtyard features towering palms and restored mosaics highlighting the hotel's original detailing.\n\n Specifically, the French designer targeted the 1930s, which he describes as a period \"that is not yet very modern, but between the classical and the contemporary. It is really the difference between the past and the future.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookThe centerpiece of the hotel's Bar Les Heures is a dramatic light fixture that puts a modern twist on Art Deco style.\n\n Taking his cues from the hotel's original design\u2014not least of all the soaring mosaics that cover the hotel's palm-dotted courtyard\u2014Rochon created a tightly tailored tour de force of polished Macassar ebony, black Saint Laurent marble, wrought-iron filigree, and gilded accents. For the textiles, he and his team pored over vintage fabric books and samples from the era, and he designed much of the furniture and lighting himself, taking inspiration from such period icons as \u00C9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe luxe corridors showcase Deco-era photography.\n\n\"When you close a hotel and then open it back up, you need to have something different,\" concludes Rochon. \"It would have been possible to design a contemporary hotel, but I was thinking it's not necessary because you have so many hotels that look the same\u2014just the name changes. But here, the hotel has character.\"\n\n33 Avenue George V, Paris, 800-325-3589; princedegallesparis.com\n\nPinterestFacebookA guest room's playful mix of patterns is tempered by glossy black finishes and more Macassar ebony."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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