Why you should experience Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido in Paris, France.
Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido is a cultivated luxury hotel where Madeleine's discreet character, Faubourg Saint-Honoré couture heritage, private-house elegance and enduring tradition of French decorative craftsmanship converge around a secluded garden concealed behind Rue d'Aguesseau.
Set along Rue d'Aguesseau near Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and just steps from Palais de l'Élysée, the hotel opened in 2019 after architect and designer Arnaud Behzadi spent three years transforming a nineteenth-century Haussmannian residence and adjoining building into two distinct architectural worlds connected through a planted courtyard. Behzadi preserved the original stone staircase, mouldings, tall windows and residential proportions of the older house while creating a contemporary wing behind a mirrored Alucobond façade designed to reflect the historic building across the garden, with climbing jasmine softening the modern elevation. Current accommodation comprises 36 rooms including four suites, divided between Parisian interiors shaped by Haussmannian references and contemporary rooms combining wood, brass, marble and powder pink, blue-grey and gold. The result is a hotel where nineteenth-century domestic architecture, contemporary design and a remarkably private garden create an intimate interpretation of luxury within the institutional and couture heart of the 8th Arrondissement.
What you should know about Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido.
Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido is best known for opening in 2019 after Arnaud Behzadi directed an three-year reconstruction of the property at 9 Rue d'Aguesseau, converting a former Haussmannian private residence and neighboring structures into a five-star hotel organized around two deliberately contrasting architectural identities. Contemporary documentation recorded the opening configuration as 33 rooms and three suites, with 24 rooms and three suites distributed across four levels of the historic building and nine rooms occupying a two-level contemporary wing, while the current inventory comprises 36 rooms including four suites. Behzadi retained the original stone staircase and nineteenth-century proportions in the Parisian building, where high ceilings, mouldings and tall windows were paired with bespoke cabinets of curiosities, contemporary paintings and lithographs, marble-and-glass bathrooms and specially designed gold-toned fittings. Across the courtyard, the contemporary wing introduced a mirrored Alucobond façade covered with climbing jasmine, using reflection to place the nineteenth-century elevation directly into the newer architecture while interiors combine geometric forms, curved furniture, wood, brass and custom marble pieces. The property joined WorldHotels' Elite collection before its spring 2019 debut, while the completed design positioned a planted courtyard and Japanese loquat tree between the two buildings as the physical center of the entire composition.
Shiseido extends the property's discussion between French and Japanese design through a subterranean spa centered on a heated pool 16 meters long and maintained at 30°C, accompanied by a hammam, sauna, treatment facilities and protocols developed around the Japanese company's wellness philosophy. Shiseido traces its cosmetics history through more than 150 years of Japanese expertise, while the spa specifically employs the Qi treatment method created in 1986, combining pressure on Tsubo points, meridian-based techniques, oshibori hot towels and aromachology within facial and body treatments. Il Giardino carries the Japanese botanical thread above ground through the courtyard's loquat tree, Japanese bamboo and flowering shrubs while Chef Davide Pecorella develops Italian cooking from regional products and recipes connected with his grandmother beneath the restaurant's glass-roofed winter garden. Together, Arnaud Behzadi, Shiseido, Davide Pecorella and the garden connecting the hotel's two buildings create a continuous narrative through architecture, Japanese wellness practice, Mediterranean cooking and landscape design.
How to fold Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido into your trip.
Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing the decorative craftsmanship, collecting culture and aristocratic interiors that shaped western Paris.
Begin at Hôtel de la Marine, where Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed the classical architecture framing Place de la Concorde and the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne occupied the eastern palace from the eighteenth century before the French Navy established its headquarters there in 1789 and remained for more than two centuries. Continue to Musée Nissim de Camondo, where architect René Sergent constructed Moïse de Camondo's residence between 1911 and 1914 beside Parc Monceau, creating a setting inspired by the Petit Trianon for one of France's great collections of eighteenth-century furniture and decorative arts. Conclude at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, where furniture, fashion, textiles, jewelry, glass, ceramics and graphic design extend the afternoon through the disciplines of craftsmanship that have repeatedly defined French luxury culture. The progression moves from royal furnishing and eighteenth-century interiors through private collecting into the broader history of French decorative production, creating a natural cultural structure for the craftsmanship and authored interiors of Les Jardins du Faubourg Hotel & Spa Shiseido.
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