Among the latest brands launched by Accor, Handwritten Collection now includes a first address in Parisjust a stone's throw from the Trocadéro and the Iéna metro station. This is a new showroom for the French group of independent hotels with character. La Maison Hamelin has no shortage of them, themed around French savoir-faire.
With dress patterns on display in the lobby, a garden-level breakfast room reminiscent of a fashion workshop, complete with spools, needles and balls of wool, and carpets in the corridors reminiscent of catwalks, the hotel's design, conceived by the interior architecture studio Maison Malapert, has been extended to the entire hotel. a couture house spirit. Even in the 65 rooms of this boutique hotel, where the drapes around the beds are reminiscent of fitting rooms and the headboards of the beds of Chanel tweed.
What's more, four rooms and suites pay homage to famous iconic creationsYves Saint Laurent's saharienne and dinner jacket, Jean-Paul Gaultier's marinière and Paco Rabanne's metallic dress. These are signature rooms which, like some Deluxe category rooms, are extended by a balcony with a view of the Eiffel Tower. What's more, in all the rooms - averaging 18.5 m² in size - travellers will find a clothes steamer, a television with Chromecast and a Nespresso coffee machine, as well as two bathrobes and Codage products in the bathroom.
The result of the conversion of former offices in the XVIe arrondissement, the Maison Hamelin hotel also has a small wellness area with fitness, sauna and hammam and a intimate meeting room for ten people, with the hotel management expecting its clientele to be half business and half leisure. Although the hotel does not have a restaurant, lunch or dinner can be arranged around meetings with outside partners, and the breakfast room can also be used for after-work events. Guests can relax over cocktails in the lobby, which has a small terrace in fine weather.
