Why you should experience La Fantaisie in Paris, France.
La Fantaisie is a garden-driven luxury hotel where Faubourg-Montmartre's market-garden inheritance, Rue Cadet's neighborhood energy, contemporary British design and Parisian horticultural culture converge inside a verdant retreat conceived around the district's centuries-old relationship with cultivation.
Set along Rue Cadet near Rue La Fayette and just steps from Square Montholon, the five-star hotel occupies number 24 on a street whose name recalls Jacques and Jean Cadet, sixteenth-century master gardeners associated with the cultivated land that once characterized this part of northern Paris. Leitmotiv Hotels commissioned Petitdidierprioux Architectes to reconstruct the existing property, while Martin Brudnizki Design Studio created Brudnizki's first Paris hotel interiors around the same horticultural inheritance through botanical motifs, handcrafted mosaics, natural materials and a palette of greens, yellows and coral. The contemporary property contains 63 rooms and 10 suites opening toward either Rue Cadet or the interior garden, with selected accommodations incorporating balconies and terraces. A substantial garden planted directly into the ground extends behind the hotel beneath the restaurant's glass canopy, while the rooftop carries the botanical composition above the surrounding roofs and the subterranean spa develops the concept below street level through mineral pools and botanical mosaics.
What you should know about La Fantaisie.
La Fantaisie is best known for opening in 2023 as the third property from family-owned Leitmotiv Hotels after Petitdidierprioux Architectes reconstructed 4,000 square meters at 24 Rue Cadet into a five-star hotel containing 63 rooms and 10 suites, with Martin Brudnizki Design Studio completing its first Paris hotel interiors and landscape architect Christophe Gautrand developing the garden. Petitdidierprioux redesigned the building around a pre-patinated gray-green zinc façade functioning as a filter between guestrooms and Rue Cadet, enlarged the rear garden and introduced a full-width glass roof connecting the restaurant with the planted landscape, while Martin Brudnizki translated the horticultural premise through floral wallpapers, patterned carpets, bespoke furniture, ceramic lighting, handcrafted mosaics and colors progressing from the subterranean spa toward the rooftop. The 73-key accommodation inventory divides into 63 rooms and 10 suites, with guestrooms facing either the city or garden and selected categories adding private balconies or terraces, while the subterranean wellness complex incorporates mineral baths, sauna and hammam beneath the building. Chef Dominique Crenn originally established the culinary program through Golden Poppy, her first restaurant outside California, bringing members of her Atelier Crenn team to Paris and developing the opening restaurant around vegetable-forward cooking and sustainably sourced seafood before the property subsequently transitioned its principal dining room into Restaurant La Fantaisie. Petitdidierprioux Architectes subsequently received the 2024 Prix Versailles in the hotel category, a 2024 AHEAD Award for hotel renovation, a BIG SEE Architecture Award and a Gold Hotel MUSE Award for the project, while the MICHELIN Guide awarded La Fantaisie One MICHELIN Key.
Martin Brudnizki develops the horticultural narrative vertically through the building, conceiving the underground spa as the roots of an imagined plant before botanical forms, patterned textiles and vegetation accumulate through the accommodation floors and culminate in the planted rooftop above Paris. Christophe Gautrand gives that metaphor a living counterpart through the interior garden, where substantial planting occupies real soil behind the hotel and creates the landscape around which Petitdidierprioux Architectes organized the restaurant's broad glass enclosure. Holidermie carries the botanical philosophy into wellness through the original spa partnership, connecting the underground baths with a French brand founded by Mélanie Huynh around holistic beauty, nutrition and personal wellbeing. Together, Martin Brudnizki, Christophe Gautrand, Petitdidierprioux Architectes and Holidermie turn Rue Cadet's horticultural history into an unusually coherent design system extending from subterranean water and botanical mosaics through a living garden to the vegetation crowning La Fantaisie's rooftop.
How to fold La Fantaisie into your trip.
La Fantaisie works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing nineteenth-century collecting, Romantic painting and operatic architecture through the cultural institutions surrounding Faubourg-Montmartre.
Begin at Musée Gustave Moreau, where Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau commissioned architect Albert Lafon in 1895 to enlarge his family house and create vast upper-floor studios specifically for the thousands of paintings, watercolors and drawings he intended to leave as a museum, with the institution opening to the public in 1903. Continue to Musée de la Vie Romantique, where Dutch-born painter Ary Scheffer settled on Rue Chaptal in 1830 and established studios that became gathering places for figures including George Sand, Frédéric Chopin, Eugène Delacroix, Franz Liszt and Charles Dickens during the cultural flowering of Nouvelle Athènes. Conclude at Palais Garnier, commissioned under Napoleon III and designed by Charles Garnier after he won the 1861 architectural competition, with construction extending until the opera house opened in 1875 beneath a program combining sculpture, painting, marble, gilding and a vast auditorium designed for the performance of nineteenth-century Parisian society. The progression moves from Moreau's purpose-built artistic archive through Scheffer's Romantic salon into Garnier's synthesis of architecture and performance, creating a concentrated cultural sequence around the creative history surrounding La Fantaisie.
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