15 Unforgettable New Hotels in Paris

There’s no single city in the world with more hotels in the Tablet selection than Paris. There are a couple of reasons why.

First and foremost, the standard of hospitality in Paris is just that high. We don’t include hotels that aren’t at the top of their game, delivering unique and consistently satisfying experiences, and Paris has a barrel of places that are up to the challenge. The second reason is because Paris has more small boutique hotels than any other city its size. Well over half the hotels in our Paris selection have fewer than 50 rooms. Compare that with New York, where only a handful of our hotels are that small.

We’ll leave it to the real estate experts and risk management consultants to work out the exact connection behind all this. What’s obvious is that, when you’re more willing to roll the dice on smaller properties — as the top hoteliers in Paris seem to be — you’ve got that many more chances to create hotels that stir our souls, like the fifteen below, all added to our selection in just the past six months.

Ernest Hemingway was so impressed by Paris, he said: “Wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you.” We say: Whenever you go to Paris, this is where you should stay.

Solly Hotel

Paris, France

Set on a leafy square in the 3rd arrondissement, Solly Hotel was once the home of the architect Salomon de Caus, a true Renaissance man. De Caus was also an engineer, mathematician, musical theorist, and a designer of fountains and gardens, and his Parisian residence was a testament to his love of beauty and symmetry, qualities that are still reflected in the building’s modern incarnation.

Norman Hôtel

Paris, France

Paris’s Norman Hôtel is named not for Normandy but for the mid-century American artist and designer Norman Ives — and its interiors, in keeping with its namesake’s inspiration, are a tribute to modernist art and design, and to the Paris of the 1960s. It’s set close to the upper end of the Champs-Elysées, but it’s the farthest thing from busy — with just 37 rooms it’s properly boutique-sized.

Hôtel Les Deux Gares

Paris, France

The two stations in question are Gare de l’Est and Gare du Nord, between which is sandwiched the incredibly colorful Hôtel Les Deux Gares, the first hotel project by the retro-obsessed English artist and designer Luke Edward Hall. And, English though he may be, the depth of Hall’s research combined with the boldness of his palette results a sort of dream-world hyper-Paris, more Parisian than the real thing.

Hotel Hana

Paris, France

A few minutes from Little Tokyo lies Hotel Hana, a 26-room boutique hotel whose style is both perfectly Parisian and thoroughly Japanese — which, in this case, is not a euphemism for “minimalist.” It’s the work of architect and designer Laura Gonzalez, creative director Oliver Leone, and hotelier Nicolas Saltiel, and in its richly textured cultural fusion it’s an inspiring, maximalist triumph.

Château des Fleurs

Paris, France

Just off the Champs-Élysées, and not much farther from the Arc de Triomphe, Château des Fleurs occupies an elegant 1910 building and aims to be nothing less than an homage to the glamour of Paris a century ago. Its interiors succeed in feeling both inimitably unique and perfectly emblematic of their setting, inspired by the Belle Époque but unmistakably contemporary in their interpretation.