Why you should experience Jules & Jim in Paris, France.
Jules & Jim is an art-driven boutique hotel where Arts-et-MΓ©tiers's creative character, Haut-Marais industrial history, contemporary architecture and Parisian photography converge inside the remains of a former precious-metals factory.
Set along Rue des Gravilliers near Rue du Temple and just steps from MusΓ©e des Arts et MΓ©tiers, the four-star hotel opened on December 26, 2011 after founders Antoine Brault and Geoffroy Sciard spent five years developing a 23-room property distributed across three buildings surrounding two cobbled courtyards. Architect Henrich Fitger directed the structural architecture, Natacha Froger of Atome AssociΓ©s developed the guestrooms and circulation spaces, and Michael Malapert conceived the bar and courtyard around concrete, stone, glass, wood, stainless steel and backlit HI-MACS. Thirteen HI-MACS rooms place wardrobes, bathrooms and washbasins around the perimeter while a backlit stone-and-resin shell encloses the bed at the center, turning an unusually compact floor plan into the hotel's defining architectural gesture. A 15-meter photographic gallery begins immediately inside the Rue des Gravilliers entrance and continues toward the reception, courtyard and bar, establishing art as part of the building's circulation.
What you should know about Jules & Jim.
Jules & Jim is best known for opening on December 26, 2011 after five years of planning and 19 months of construction transformed the remains of a former precious-metals factory at 11 Rue des Gravilliers into 23 individually conceived rooms distributed among an eight-story building and two smaller houses surrounding two cobbled courtyards. Henrich Fitger directed the structural architecture, Natacha Froger of Atome AssociΓ©s designed the guestrooms and circulation spaces, Michael Malapert developed the bar and courtyard, and lighting designer Alain Pin shaped the illumination program around materials including glass, solid wood, stone, concrete and HI-MACS. Thirteen guestrooms inside the principal eight-story building introduced the project's most distinctive spatial device, placing the wardrobe, toilet, shower and washbasin into the four corners while enclosing the centrally positioned bed inside a backlit composite shell formed from stone and resin. Founders Antoine Brault and Geoffroy Sciard simultaneously established a 15-meter entrance gallery conceived during construction specifically for photography exhibitions, with programming extending through the courtyard and bar and collaborations with Parisian photography galleries later supplemented by annual street-art and illustration exhibitions beginning in 2014. BΓ©atrice Ardisson created the original musical character around an eclectic program spanning electronic music, classical compositions, Latin music and jazz, while the bar combined a backlit HI-MACS counter, stainless steel, solid walnut, reclaimed antique parquet and a 150-volume library of literature, comics, photography and art books.
Natacha Froger extended the architectural program into bespoke furniture by designing the reception desk, which cabinetmaker Christophe Feugnet fabricated before Portuguese artist Gezo Marques covered the piece with an original artwork. BΓ©atrice Ardisson gave Jules & Jim a parallel sonic character through a dedicated musical program whose repertoire ranged across jazz, classical, Latin and electronic music, with Jeanne Moreau's connection to FranΓ§ois Truffaut's Jules et Jim providing an additional cultural reference through the song Le Tourbillon. RΓ©gis Celabe currently carries the bar's creative program through mixology, while photographer and artistic director Vladan FilipoviΔ joined Jules & Jim and Campari for the 2026 Quand Paris voit rouge exhibition, pairing a Paris photography series with four temporary cocktails created by Celabe. HΓ΄tel Jules & Jim consequently connects Natacha Froger, Christophe Feugnet, Gezo Marques, BΓ©atrice Ardisson, RΓ©gis Celabe and Vladan FilipoviΔ through architecture, cabinetmaking, visual art, music and cocktails, continuing the multidisciplinary premise established by Antoine Brault and Geoffroy Sciard in 2011.
How to fold Jules & Jim into your trip.
Jules & Jim works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing scientific invention, seventeenth-century architecture and private collecting through the northern Marais.
Begin at Musée des Arts et Métiers, where Abbé Grégoire founded the Conservatoire des arts et métiers in 1794 and the former Saint-Martin-des-Champs priory now houses nearly 80,000 objects and 15,000 drawings spanning scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanics and transportation, including Jacques Vaucanson's loom, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's steam vehicle and Clément Ader's Avion n° 3. Continue to Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, inaugurated by André Malraux on February 21, 1967 inside François Mansart's seventeenth-century Hôtel de Guénégaud before expanding into the adjoining eighteenth-century Hôtel de Mongelas in 2007, where collections assembled by François and Jacqueline Sommer examine relationships between humans and animals from antiquity through contemporary art. Conclude at Musée Picasso, occupying the Hôtel Salé that financier Pierre Aubert commissioned after purchasing 3,700 square meters of land for 40,000 livres in 1656, with architect Jean Boullier de Bourges completing the residence in 1659 and Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy with Martin Desjardins contributing its sculptural decoration. The progression moves from Abbé Grégoire's repository of invention through François Mansart and the Sommer collection into Pierre Aubert's seventeenth-century residence, creating a concentrated study of technology, architecture and collecting around Jules & Jim's own fusion of industrial memory and contemporary art.
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