Paris – Royal Monceau – Lobby Butterflies

Paris - Royal Monceau -  Lobby Butterflies

A couple of months ago, I stayed in Paris for a few weeks and had the pleasure of being a guest of the Royal Monceau Raffles Paris during my stay.

The Royal Monceau Raffles Paris Hotel is a 5 Star Palace hotel located in the heart of Paris within walking distance to the Park Monceau and the Arc de Triomphe. It opened in the late 1920s and has hosted a wide array of people including Josephine Baker, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and Michael Jackson.

It was recently refurbished by the iconic French designer Philippe Starck. And indeed, staying in the hotel and exploring it fully takes you on a whimsical journey into the imagination of Starck.

By the time I stayed at the Royal Monceau, I had been traveling in France for nearly three weeks at the tail-end of an adventure that took me through the south of France and up to Paris. I was a bit saucer-eyed and woozy from travel and travel photography. However, Royal Monceau made it impossible for me not to completely unwind and have my own smile-worthy adventure within its walls as I discovered the genius of Starck and grew to appreciate the Royal Monceau’s high standards of excellence.

Read a dedicated post about the hotel with explanations of each photo here:

Paris – Royal Monceau Raffles Hotel – A Photo Tour

Interested in viewing all of my France posts so far? Here they are:

France Through the Lens

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Paris

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NY Through The Lens: A New York Coffee Table Book

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Posted by Vivienne Gucwa on 2014-09-05 00:45:04

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