Why you should experience Hôtel Bienvenue in Paris, France.
Hôtel Bienvenue is a convivial four-star hotel where Nouvelle Athènes's salon culture, artistic sociability, theatrical inheritance and affection for private gardens converge within a country-house fantasy built around the pleasure of welcoming people home.
Set along Rue Buffault near Rue du Faubourg Montmartre and just steps from Square Montholon, the 38-room hotel carries Touriste founder Adrien Gloaguen's desire for a relaxed family house into interiors created by Chloé Nègre, who previously worked with India Mahdavi. Pastel green, powder pink, pale yellow and storm blue meet floral upholstery, geometric carpeting, vintage armchairs, painted faux marble, moldings and old tiles, giving individual floors their own chromatic personalities. Artist Julien Colombier extends the composition outdoors through a concealed ground-floor patio, allowing the graphic interior style to dissolve into planting and the quieter rhythms of a garden. The result is a hotel where Chloé Nègre's domestic imagination and Julien Colombier's hidden patio translate Nouvelle Athènes's history of intimate creative gathering into a house designed fundamentally around conviviality.
What you should know about Hôtel Bienvenue.
Hôtel Bienvenue is best known for emerging from Adrien Gloaguen's Touriste collection as a 38-room hotel designed by Chloé Nègre, whose earlier collaboration with India Mahdavi informed an interior conceived as a meeting point between an old country residence and a contemporary Parisian family house. Nègre organized the guestrooms through distinct chromatic families including nude pink, sea green, storm blue and pearl grey, combining geometric carpets and colorful furniture with floral curtains on the garden side, while vintage armchairs, curios, fireplaces, moldings and old and newly introduced tiles deepen the impression of an accumulated domestic interior. Room categories range from 9-square-meter Singles to 20-to-25-square-meter Quadruples, with Nègre designing rounded furniture, velvet-edged headboards and retro lighting while the Privilege category introduces eclectic tilework and larger bathrooms across 20 square meters. Julien Colombier created the concealed ground-floor patio as the landscape counterpart to Nègre's interiors, establishing a planted retreat behind Rue Buffault that Touriste made one of the defining elements of the property.
Adrien Gloaguen conceived Hôtel Bienvenue after Hôtel Paradis and Hôtel Panache as another expression of the hospitality philosophy he began developing with Touriste in 2008, granting individual designers broad creative authority instead of imposing a uniform house aesthetic across the collection. Chloé Nègre translated Gloaguen's brief for a peaceful address suited to his wife and daughters through pale colors, floral motifs, mismatched crockery, rattan furniture and domestic objects, making family life an organizing idea behind the decorative program. Pauline Leyvaraud contributed hand-painted faux-marble surfaces to that composition, adding artisanal finish to the fireplaces, moldings, vintage furnishings and patterned textiles that establish the house's deliberately layered character. Together, Adrien Gloaguen, Chloé Nègre, Pauline Leyvaraud and Julien Colombier turn Hôtel Bienvenue into a coherent exercise in domestic hospitality, progressing from Gloaguen's family-house premise through Nègre's interiors and Leyvaraud's painted surfaces into Colombier's secluded garden.
How to fold Hôtel Bienvenue into your trip.
Hôtel Bienvenue works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing private artistic imagination, esoteric collecting and theatrical illusion through three highly individual institutions embedded within the ninth Arrondissement.
Begin at Musée Gustave Moreau, where Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau enlarged his family home with vast north-lit studios, planned its preservation before his 1898 death, bequeathed the house and fifty years of work to France in 1897, and saw his vision realized when the museum opened in 1903 with its original presentation intact. Continue to Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie, founded by Grand Orient de France in 1889 and housed within Hôtel de Chaulnes, where Voltaire's apron, Lafayette's sword, eighteenth-century earthenware and ceremonial regalia illuminate three centuries of French intellectual, political and symbolic culture. Conclude at Musée Grévin, where newspaper proprietor Arthur Meyer recruited caricaturist Alfred Grévin in 1881, opened the wax museum on June 5, 1882 and brought financier Gabriel Thomas into its direction in 1883, beginning an entertainment institution later enriched by its theater and Hall of Mirrors. The progression moves from Moreau's intensely personal construction of an artistic afterlife through Freemasonry's coded material culture into Meyer and Grévin's conversion of contemporary celebrity into performance, revealing the private imagination, eccentric collecting and theatrical invention surrounding Hôtel Bienvenue.
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