Why you should experience Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles in Paris, France.
Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles is a polished contemporary hotel where Batignolles's village-like character, artistic inheritance, independent social culture and evolving relationship with modern northwestern Paris converge inside a former office building reimagined around light and a planted courtyard.
Set along Rue de Tocqueville near Rue Cardinet and just steps from Promenade Pereire, the hotel emerged in 2018 after Fernier & Associés transformed a deep office structure into a 134-room property for Pitch Promotion and Groupe Central Hôtel. The architects retained the existing concrete structure while completely recomposing the exterior through powder-coated aluminum shells, clipped stone and pre-weathered zinc, then closed the former ground-floor entrance porch to create a lobby and Bar à Bourgogne opening directly toward the street. ADN developed the interiors, while Fernier & Associés organized the building around a planted patio with a green wall and terrace that draws daylight into the unusually deep floorplate. The result is a hotel where architectural conversion, contemporary French design and the Jacquier family's Burgundian hospitality heritage create a distinctive connection between Batignolles and the evolving western edge of the 17th Arrondissement.
What you should know about Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles.
Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles is best known for opening in 2018 after Pitch Promotion completed a €11.5 million, 4,500-square-meter conversion of an existing office building at 116 bis-118 Rue de Tocqueville into a four-star hotel developed for Groupe Central Hôtel. Fernier & Associés led architecture and construction across a 22-month project, retaining the building's concrete frame while replacing its office façades with powder-coated aluminum shells, clipped stone and upper levels finished in pre-weathered zinc, while ADN directed the interior architecture. The conversion produced 134 guestrooms with capacity for 268 people, including upper-floor duplex accommodations, and reorganized the building's deep floorplate around central circulation and guestrooms originally designed at 20 square meters on average. A former open porch at street level was enclosed to create the lobby and bar, while the interior courtyard became a planted patio with a green wall and terrace connecting directly with those public spaces. Christian Terrassoux of Pitch Promotion, Groupe Central Hôtel presidents Alain and Patrick Jacquier, general manager Olivier Quintin and 17th-arrondissement mayor Geoffroy Boulard formally inaugurated the property on September 19, 2018, completing a project that translated an existing commercial structure into a purpose-designed hospitality program.
Groupe Central Hôtel gives the property a more personal character through the Jacquier family, whose four generations of hospitality experience and connection with Burgundy became the conceptual foundation for Bar à Bourgogne. Bar à Bourgogne develops that family history through Burgundy appellations including Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, opening directly onto the planted patio and extending the Jacquiers' regional heritage into the principal social space created during Fernier & Associés' conversion. Accor carries the accommodation program from 17-square-meter Superior rooms and 20-square-meter Privilege rooms into 30-square-meter Deluxe Duplex Suites and 34-square-meter Superior Suites, with upper categories overlooking the Paris skyline and selected duplexes occupying the eighth and ninth levels anticipated in Fernier & Associés' original plans. Together, Groupe Central Hôtel, the Jacquier family, Fernier & Associés and ADN establish a coherent character in which Burgundy wine culture, retained concrete structure, contemporary interiors and vertically organized suites remain connected to the architectural decisions that created Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles in 2018.
How to fold Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles into your trip.
Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing the private artistic houses, institutional architecture and landscaped reinvention that distinguish the 17th Arrondissement.
Begin at Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, where painter Guillaume Dubufe acquired the mansion in 1878 as his home and studio before Marie Henner purchased it from his heirs in 1921, commissioned Marcel Legendre to convert its reception spaces and opened the museum in 1924 around a collection that now preserves more than 2,200 works. Continue to Cité de l'Économie, where Hôtel Gaillard provides an unusually theatrical setting for exploring economic history inside one of the Plaine Monceau district's great nineteenth-century private residences. Conclude at Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther King, where landscape architect Jacqueline Osty and her team began design work in 2004 before successive phases expanded the former railway territory into a 10-hectare park completed in July 2021, retaining rails within a landscape organized around seasons, sport and water. The progression moves from a painter's preserved private world through the grand architecture of Plaine Monceau into a contemporary landscape shaped from railway ground, revealing the layers of artistic patronage and urban reinvention surrounding Mercure Paris 17 Batignolles.
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