Difficult to imagine that the immense canopy, where two oversized chandeliers watch over marble counters and benches lined with tender pink, served as warehouse for machines and pipes of a large sanitation company in Paris, expert in full.

The 10 -meter high metal structure now houses the Garden Garden restaurant, a new hotel on the left bank of Paris just opened in February. Housed in an architectural ensemble combining an 18th centurye A century, an old industrial hall and a contemporary part, this address is the first in France-and the seventeenth in all-of the British group Locke.

From Lisbon to Edinburgh, the brand has made a specialty of the Appartssthes, or apartments for rent for short stays, with the slogan “Stay at home. »» “We define ourselves as dinners, but, ultimately, we are here very close to the hotel atmosphere: an assertive decoration, a high -end catering offer, daily services such as room maintenance, breakfast, yoga lessons … The“ apartment ”dimension appears as an in addition, a comfort and complementary flexibility”, Consider Arnaud Imbert, the director of the hotel.

Coming from the classic hotel industry,, He admits to asking the concept, before being seduced by the project: “I had in mind the Appartthel of twenty years ago, a little outdated and lacking in soul. We are very far now! »»

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