The Compagnie Hôtelière de Bagatelle shares with creative minds the same curiosity, the same enthusiasm, the same sense of imagination that gives such vitality to today's hospitality industry while thinking of tomorrow's.
We meet and recruit outstanding and atypical professionals who have a wealth of fine taste and ideas, and entrust the development of our hotels to the big names in design and fashion.
Over the course of fifteen years the interior designer Sarah Lavoine has become a true ambassador of Parisian taste.
This inspired artist whose name embodies the new French way of life redesigned the decor of the Printemps de la Maison in the Printemps Haussmann department store, created an exclusive collection of furniture with La Redoute, opened several boutiques and wrote the book, Ainsi Soit Style, les Secrets du Chic Parisien, a style guide published by Editions La Martinière.
The special relationship that this Parisian designer has with the Saint-Honoré district, where she lives, works and finds inspiration, made her the perfect choice to conceptualise the soul, style and décor of the Roch Hotel.
"When I approach a project, I think about its inscription in time.
My goal is to create harmony and simplicity for individuals, things and places."
Sarah Lavoine
Between them, the designers Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier are the perfect embodiment of French chic. A chic they convey with a great degree of success as their respective styles are very different, and therefore perfectly complementary!
Who but this inspired couple could bring such an incomparable look to a hotel that truly desires originality? Where others exploit trends, they seek to go beyond the boundaries of transient fashion to offer timeless and unique creations.
The Chess Hotel joins the long list of their prestigious and international credits, which include the Baccarat Hotel in New York and several Baccarat and Moncler boutiques.
"We like to play with materials, but always in a spirit of experimentation and with a twist."
Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier
The most famous designer of French lingerie is also the icon of Paris glamour which, although often voluptuous and even sometimes provocative, never loses its sense of chic.
For the Vice Versa, she was the mistress of ceremony that was needed. Inspired and a bit of a scoundrel under her legendary fringe, she alone could gather in one place all the facets of the City of Light, from fashion to gastronomy, by way of luxury and art.
Chantal Thomass, who rehabilitated the basque, garter belt and corset and invented lace tights, also conceptualised the decor of an entire hotel, bringing to the project a theme as subversive as it is universal: the 7 deadly sins.
"The theme immediately came to me: 7 floors, 7 deadly sins! (...) I would naturally be expected to excel on Lust and Gluttony, but the real challenge resided in Avarice and Pride, for example, which are vices I don’t have. I wish you happy sins for sweet nights! "
Chantal Thomass
The architect Vincent Bastie and his cabinet of experts have contributed a great deal to the revival of the Parisian hotel industry, with which they have been collaborating for nearly 30 years. Whether in terms of design or concepts, this prolific team has transformed many of the capital’s establishments, over the course of its projects, into internationally renowned exemplars of style and fine decor.
Vincent Bastie regularly associates with other professionals, as was the case with Les Plumes Hotel and Pascale de la Cochetière. It is to her that we owe the theme of the hotel, devoted to the loving couples among the legendary writers of the 19th century.
A lovely nod to literary Paris, as might be expected from Pascale, who is also a journalist!
"I hate to be bored and I need to work on unique projects that are different each time; on hotels intimately linked to the character of their location."
Vincent Bastie
