Hotel la Maison des Champs Elysees Redesigned by Maison Martin Margiela

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The Trend Boutique have been taking a look at the recent Maison Martin Margiela presents the ‘Hotel La Maison des Champs Elysées’, located right in the heart of Paris.  

The hotel has a total of fifty seven rooms of which seventeen have been redesigned by Maison Martin Margiela.

entrusted with its first hotel project and has decided to rethink the interior design of Hotel La Maison- Champs Elysées. This Parisian hotel, in the historical building of the Maison des Centraliens.

Maison Martin Margiela, appointed after winning the competition to design the historical part of the building, has re-thought this space to create hotel suites, a restaurant, a smoking room, a bar and a reception area.

In designing this project Maison Martin Margiela aimed for continuity in relation to its own artistic history by offering a place where contrasts harmonize and which is tinged with surrealism.

The House worked jointly with other artists (landscape painters and lighting engineers) to carry out this project.

Corridor at Hotel La Maison des Champs-Elysées

Access to the restaurant and lifts is through a long corridor covered in wall-paper made from black and white photographs of the ‘golden salon’ on the second floor. A wool runner, printed with English-style parquet in black and white is laid on the waxed concrete flooring. Three ‘Montgolfier’ chandeliers with steel and crystal pendants have been deliberately mottled to age them. 

Landing at Hotel La Maison des Champs-Elysées

The landings and corridors are entirely black: black paint on the walls and thick black carpeting on the floor. These dark spaces are lit up by projections of light which imitate sunlight filtering through non-existent doors or windows.

The ‘Golden Salon’ Suite at Hotel La Maison des Champs-Elysées

The walls of the ‘Golden Salon’ suite are entirely covered in wallpaper made from black and white photographs taken of the golden salon on the second floor. The net curtains are printed with these same patterns. In this way, the perspectives and richness in decoration of the Second Empire style (Napoleon III) are reproduced as trompe-l’oeil on the fittings and furniture in the suite. A huge library mural full of various books is put up over the bed head in the bedroom. The conveniences with all four walls covered with sections of different editions of magazines, continue this library theme.

Reception Hall at Hotel La Maison des Champs-Elysées 

The Reception Hall floor is made up of Mareuil limestone flagstones with black slate insets randomly scattered as if by the wind. The reception area in the shape of a mirrored prism is in the centre of this hall. This huge diamond gives an impression of infinite space. There are many wall lamps in brushed stainless steel on the white walls, which light up the outlines of missing paintings.

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Hotel la Maison des Champs Elysees Redesigned by Maison Martin Margiela