When it comes to accommodations, few cities come close to Paris’s plethora of tony escapes. Recent luxury hotel openings include the colorfully crisp Le Grand Mazarin or the garden-inspired La Fantaisie—both visions brought to life by AD100 talent Martin Brudnizki. There’s also the newly debuted Hôtel de La Boétie, with playfully chic interiors from AD100 designer Beata Heuman, or Fabrizio Casiraghi’s Hôtel des Grands Voyageurs for those coveting a quietly luxurious retreat. The Saint James Hotel, imbued with an Art Deco flair by AD100 designer Laura Gonzalez, is also a delight.
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Design Happenings Not to Miss
At Paris Déco Off
It wouldn’t be Paris Déco Off without a visit to one of France’s heritage textile ateliers. We suggest Pierre Frey, which is celebrating citywide this season with each of the company’s four showrooms (including Braquenié, Thorp of London, and Zuber), taking on distinct atmospheres for previews of the latest launches. The largest collection, Deserts, will bring reinterpretations of kilim patterns, Berber carpet archives, and more to the Hôtel de Guise, a historic Left Bank property, temporarily transformed into a veritable Pierre Frey town house (locations vary).
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Kvadrat is launching its latest Sahco collection, Wild at Heart, which revisits the brand’s roots: “Ulf Moritz, the designer who shaped the Sahco in the late 1980s, believed no idea was too wild to be executed as long as it became a perfect rendering,” says Bengt Thornefors, Sahco’s creative director. The collection will be showcased in a cinematic installation dubbed Hollywood in the Distance by Rafael de Cárdenas at contemporary art gallery Galerie Dumonteil (38 Rue de l’Université).
Meanwhile, at De Le Cuona, corduroy, houndstooth, and other timeless menswear fabrics inspire the textile house’s new collection, Natural Rebel, set to launch in March (12 rue Jacques Callot). LA-based interior designer Sean Leffers is showing his inaugural line of handmade natural fiber fabrics, which draw on his trove of antique Asian textiles (7 rue de Savoie; on January 16 only). And fair first-timer Delcourt Textiles will be showing an exclusive range of upholstery fabrics in natural materials at Passage Saint-Sulpice, a new Paris Déco Off pop-up space (La place Saint-Sulpice).
Other musts on our Paris Déco Off list: Ralph Lauren Home’s Spring 2025 Rue Bohème collection, which embodies bohemian glamour with distressed florals and paint-splattered velvets (4 rue Vide Gousset); Loro Piana Interiors’ Pure and Pristine collection (19 rue de Saints Pères); and Schumacher, which will present panel sets by Libertine fashion designer Johnson Hartig, plus a new spin on the company’s iconic Shivalik Hills Tiger fabric, and more. Dedar, too, never disappoints (9 rue Jacob).
At Maison & Objet
Last year Surrealism celebrated its 100th anniversary, and in 2025 the artistic movement’s uncanny legacy continues to reverberate throughout the design world. This January, Maison & Objet and creative studio Peclers Paris invite you to their dream world with “Sur/Reality,” the design fair’s latest theme. Immersive installations dreamt up by Elizabeth Leriche, François Delclaux, and Studio Uchronia are set to showcase the theme across decor, retail, and hospitality realms, respectively. For the latter, Studio Uchronia’s Julien Sebban has conceived the fanciful Hotel Uchronia (Hall 7). True to the Parisian firm’s signature aesthetic, the conceptual boutique hotel packs a colorful punch, amplified by lighting, fabric, design objects, and even a soundscape that plays via perception. In the imagined venue’s Café-Bar, for example, day and night are reversed. Each of Hotel Uchronia’s three zones offers its own sensorial experience.
