| | 
Profile
|
 Today, this mansion has been restored its legacy without fanfare, offering its guests small château charm and star quality: an immense portrait galery, a restaurant with a lovely courtyard garden, impressive wood-panelled lounge, and of course its welcoming rooms, bright suites, with several of these offering their guests luxurious, breathtaking views of Paris... Along with visits, encounters and discoveries, the hotel is part of the travel experience. |
 It is but a foothold, but it becomes a "home" where the traveller's time takes on a different dimension, communicating a kind of contemporary melancholy. This is how Thomas Vidalenc, the architect that re-designed the Hôtel de Sers, describes his approach. Marquis de Sers employed the services of architect Jules Pellechet, who designed the original four-storey building with a classic facade and numerous windows. |
Inside, the design was very functional: an entrance for horse-drawn carriages immediately in front of an enormous staircase, an interior courtyard which led to the stables, and a ground floor used for service quarters; the first floor was divided into an anteroom, sitting room and dining room while the other two floors housed the masters' chambers with the servants' quarters on the top floor. |
 At the outset of the 20th century, the Hôtel de Sers housed a medical facility.In accordance with the architectural style of the 1930's, the building was lifted up onto four additional floors and attached to a six-storey building overlooking the courtyard. Inside it was redivided, with each bedroom being accorded a private lavatory as a result. |
 In 1935, the transformed Hôtel de Sers became a travellers' hotel. Ever since then it has welcomed those that travel the world. Newly renovated and restored in 2005, it is back in its original role: a discretely luxurious home, comfortable, and inviting, located in this most enduringly seductive capital city. |
| |
|
