Hôtel Plaza Athénée，Paris 巴黎雅典娜广场酒店

It seems the Hôtel Plaza Athénée could never exist in any other city but Paris for it truly embodies the spirit of the ancient city. Located amongst the haute couture houses near the Seine on Avenue Montaigne, it is a haven of rare elegance. A celebration of the city, the exclusive Hôtel Plaza Athénée is in perfect sync with the heartbeat of Europe’s most romantic – and luxurious – city.

Red awnings and tumbling scarlet geraniums are a signature of The Plaza Athénée, a Paris palace hotel that, after a 200 million euro makeover, has truly earned the “palace” title. A cleverly designed, thorough modernisation has catapulted it into the 21st century while retaining and enhancing the luxury hotel’s traditional and historic character.

Situated on the chic Avenue Montaigne, surrounded by Parisian haute couture stores, next door to the fashionable Champs Elysée Theatre and just across the river Seine from the Eiffel Tower, the Plaza Athénée first opened in 1913. It now boasts three top eateries overseen by the illustrious multi-Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse.

The guest rooms and apartments have had a facelift by the top interior decorator Marie-José Pommereau. The hotel now has 154 rooms and 54 suites, all freshly decorated in subtle hues, with elegant silks, damasks and rich embroideries from top couture houses embellishing windows and furnishings. The bedding is in luxurious 300-thread count cotton, by the Italian bespoke textile designer house Beltrami.

Privacy and Intimacy are an important part of the hotel’s appeal. Suites are accessed by a private lift. Service is efficient and discreet with attention paid to the smallest detail. The general manager, Francois Delahaye, formerly butler to the Duke of Westminster, heads a staff dedicated to making his guests feel at home, though it’s a home with a difference, where room-service breakfast may be served at a table with a full-on view of the Eiffel Tower. There are 15 rooms and suites with an Eiffel Tower view and many others with views of the famous Paris landmark from their balconies.

Alternatively, breakfast can be taken in the three-Michelin-starred main restaurant facing the hotel lobby — one way to experience the luminescent decor of the room without a hard-to-get lunch or dinner reservation. Here, the designers Patrick Join and Sanjit Manku have used the know how of French craftsmen to create a singular environment in which sparkling incandescent chandeliers are reflected in curvaceous stainless steel armchair pods. In the evenings the setting changes. The back wall folds back to reveal to the diners a recess lined with an eclectic collection of fine dining objects in silver and crystal by the likes of Christofle and Cristalleries Saint-Louis.

Alain Ducasse serves a thoroughly modern cuisine where cereals and pulses mix with grains and seafood. The menu is fish and vegetable-based, serving greens sourced from the organic garden of the Chateau de Versailles on the outskirts of Paris.

For an alternative, more accessible, culinary adventure, Japanese guest chef Fumiko Kono is currently offering a Bento-styled fusion menu in the hotel’s open-air courtyard restaurant, an ideal destination for a quiet lunch on a hot summer’s day. Surrounded by abundant foliage and cascading geraniums in the summer, the courtyard transforms in the winter into an ice rink.

The hotel brasserie, one of the neighbourhood’s favourite lunchtime meeting places, has kept a cosy 1930s vibe, including its fabulous art deco murals, but the Plaza Athenée bar, renowned for its cocktails, has been revamped with a new, modernist look. The ceiling is covered with a Klein-blue folded fabric canopy, in a nod to the Avenue Montaigne’s famous couture houses. Cocktails meanwhile now come served in glasses styled like Starbucks coffee containers, designed to appeal to a younger, trendier clientele — a touch of insouciance that might leave Commander James Bond both shaken and stirred.

雅典娜广场酒店坐落于塞纳河与蒙田大街的交汇处，各类顶级女装定制店环绕周围，雅典娜广场酒店是巴黎名贵与优雅的天堂。除了在巴黎，似乎很难再在其他城市出现，因为它真正继承了巴黎这座古老城市的精神。作为巴黎的形胜之所，雅典娜广场酒店与这座欧洲最浪漫与奢华的城市有着完美一致的心跳节拍。

红色的遮阳伞和参差不齐的猩红色天竺葵是雅典娜广场酒店的标志，这座巴黎宫殿式酒店，在经过两亿欧元的翻新之后，终于在真正意义上获得了“宫殿”的称号。充满智慧的设计，使这座酒店通过现代化的方式猛然间进入了21世纪，同时也使之保持和巩固了自身奢侈酒店的传统与历史特色。

雅典娜广场酒店坐落于别致的蒙田大道，周围环绕着众多巴黎高级女装店，毗邻时尚的香榭丽舍剧院，并与埃菲尔铁塔相隔塞纳河遥遥相望。于1913年首次开业，由米其林星级厨师阿兰.杜卡斯执掌的酒店餐馆是巴黎三家顶级餐厅之一。

客房和套件都经由顶级室内设计师马利.约瑟.波默罗操刀修整。所有154个客房和54个套间，均以精细的色调装饰而成，而所有的窗子和家具均以顶级设计工坊的优雅丝绸、印花缎子和丰富的刺绣装饰着。酒店所有的寝具均出自意大利定制纺织。

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私密性是酒店诉求的重要一部分。酒店套间有专属电梯直达，高效而谨慎的服务、对细节已然专注到了极致。酒店经理弗朗索瓦.德莱依，是威斯敏斯特公爵的前任管家，现在带领他的团队致力于提供给客人家庭感觉的服务。不过，这里的家庭有所不同，客房早餐也许还可以在正对着埃菲尔铁塔全景的桌子上享用。这里有15个客房和套间，有着埃菲尔铁塔的景色，另有一些房间可以从阳台看到巴黎其他一些著名地标。

相应地，早餐也可以在正对着酒店大堂的米其林三星级酒店餐厅享用，这是一个既可以体验散发着冷光装饰的餐厅，而又不用预约紧张的午餐和晚餐的好办法。在这里，设计师帕特里克.乔因和萨基特.曼库运用法国匠人的秘诀创造了一个熠熠生辉的白炽色吊灯，倒映在曲线形不锈钢扶椅上的简约环境。到了晚上，这些布置就会改变，背景墙将会向后折叠，向用餐者展露出由精致而内敛的，诸如昆庭以及圣路易斯水晶制品奢侈品牌的银质及水晶餐具系列排列而成的休息之所。

阿兰.杜卡斯为我们提供着完全现代化的饮食，譬如麦片、豆类与谷物和海鲜的混搭。菜单主要基于鱼类和蔬菜，提供一些从巴黎市郊凡尔赛宫的有机花园收集而来的绿色食材。

作为更易操作的烹饪探险的第二选择，日本客座厨师美子野，时下正在酒店的露天庭院餐厅为大家提供盒饭风格的混合式菜单，在炎炎夏日里，这是一个享用安静午餐的理想之地。夏天里，植物叶子和层层叠叠的天竺葵环绕着的庭院，在冬天就被用来作溜冰场之用。

酒店的啤酒吧，是附近邻居午餐聚会的最爱场所，至今仍保留着二十世纪三十年代的惬意氛围，比如，它那精工细琢的艺术装饰壁画。然而，以鸡尾酒著称的雅典娜广场酒吧，却已被新式的现代主义风格修葺一新。天花板则由克莱因蓝色的布料天篷所遮掩，以此向蒙田大街的设计工坊致敬。这里的鸡尾酒现在是用类似于星巴克咖啡杯一样的玻璃容器来供应，以便迎合年轻时尚的客人，这种漫不经心的感觉肯定会令詹姆斯.邦德司令大跌眼镜。