The doors that are pushed open are narrow and the building discreet.
In the Haussmann style of the Opera and Stock Exchange district, pleasures and finance, so dear to the century of Napoleon III.
There the story ends, because the one told by this five-star hotel, the latest addition to the Addresses Hotels collection, combines our French culture and that more distant from Japan, from which this new establishment borrows some codes.
No lobby in the classic sense, when you enter.
Two rooms, one on the right, the bar, and one on the left, the restaurant.
In the middle, a tiny entrance to the hotel with a sort of fairly discreet desk, where you can imagine completing the formalities inherent to a day in a Parisian hotel.
The bar is very successful in terms of decoration, with a large semi-circular bench, dressed in velvet and brocade covered with enormous colored flowers in relief, like kimonos.
The armchairs, very 1950s, large and comfortable, respond tastefully to this subtly lit arrangement.
At the bar, the journey continues in the glasses, with a rich selection of sake and French wines.
Robin Le Febvre
Let's move on to the restaurant, whose "raku" tables, a Japanese technique for treating ceramics, look like large chubby mushrooms.
The Roma workshop worked on the walls covered with stylized ink stains, in the Japanese style, in shades of gold and green.
The chef, Roberto Sanchez, who works in an open kitchen, is nothing Japanese.
His card, a little more.
There you can find sole meunière with ginger butter, beef tartare with Nashi apple, or flank steak with Sancho pepper sauce.
If the lunch menu costs €35, don't count on less than €100 for dinner, drinks included for three courses, which is not cheap.
At the helm, architect Laura Gonzalez
The talented architect Laura Gonzalez has made this cocoon a place of absolute tranquility... Supreme luxury than that of calm in the heart of Paris!
Nathaniel Goldberg
Let's leave this small ground floor to go upstairs to discover the 26 rooms - including a suite -, taking corridors and staircases, the walls of which are covered with a kind of straw, reminiscent of Japanese paper. , but which is not.
In charge, on the decor side, Laura Gonzalez to whom we owe the Relais & Châteaux Le Saint-James hotel and the La Pérouse restaurant.
With great caution, the decorator japanized her copy with restraint.
A dichotomy between romanticism and wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection and simplicity.
And that's good.
The rooms are therefore quite classic in a refined cocooning spirit, highlighted by a very well designed light filter.
We feel good there.
Especially since the soundproofing is perfect on one of the noisiest streets in Paris.
Only one regret, the absence, regardless of the category of the room, there are five of them, of a desk or at least of something to put your computer or three papers on.
Likewise, the seats are limited.
In the simplest category, no armchairs and in the others, a single armchair and sometimes an ottoman.
If there are two of us occupying the room, one might as well have to sit on the bed or on the floor... Considering the price, we could have imagined a more comfortable arrangement.
On the bathroom side, the taps are well positioned and the vintage furniture is inspired by the shapes of the 1940s. Nice surprise in the basement where a small swimming pool in the shape of a water lily has been created, equipped with counter-current swimming.
A pretty pool which adjoins an anecdotal fitness center, two machines in an XS room without windows.
To flee.
From the marriage of materials and colors a perfect balance of softness and elegance is born.
Robin Le Febvre
While waiting to sleep there, in February, let's remember from this small hotel an assumed intimate bias.
It remains to be seen how this will all work.
When you leave your room, you either go and sit in the restaurant or at the bar, with the obligation to eat there.
What is still missing is this small lobby where you can sit quietly, either to wait for a taxi or to chat.
Sacrificing the layout of common areas in favor of more commercial spaces is an increasingly widespread practice in the new Parisian hotel industry.
A bit as if we were forgetting the well-being of our customers... Still, dare we remind you, the essentials... From 390 euros per night.
Hana Hotel, 17 rue du 4 Septembre, 75002 Paris.
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: 01 87 89 61 98.