Taking Off

by travel-expert José Berrocoso

Photography: Kelvin Trautman

Hit the Slopes, Unwind & Repeat

Monsieur Aristide has set up shop in one of the small cobblestone streets that form the urban and idyllic meanders on the side of the Butte Montmartre in Paris. A 19th-century building, among artist’ galleries and bistros, houses the hotel’s 25 rooms and suites

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Aristide hears the name of the street on which it is located. At number 3 rue Aristide Bruant, Monsieur Aristide pays tribute to the famous singer of the Belle Époque with the emblematic red scarf, illustrated by Toulouse Lautrec. The hotel embodies this universo, neither truly in Paris or outside, with the wimsical and carefree soul that is the Montmartre district. The hotel was designed by the interior designer Marion Collard. With numerous achievements to her credit for over fifteen years, her portfolio includes Le Tigre Yoga Club, private homes of artists and collectors, properties abroad and also the hotel Monsieur Cadet. The property is a true boutique hotel with 25 rooms including 4 suites. Each room has made the most of the building’s atypical spaces. Refined and designed top lay with the light, these rooms are both comfortable and intimate, ideal for family trips, romantic trips or business trips. As one moves upstaris, the tone of the rooms matches the light. Sand-colored on the first two floors, they take on beige hues on the third, a brick shade on the 4th and offer whiskycolour reflection on the last. All the rooms have been custom designed with the aim of offering the traveler a sense of peaceful serenity. The waxed stone floors made of a single piece and painted in a warm beige, and the use of natural materials produce a soft and restful atmosphere. On the walls, watercolours or antique door locks evoke Aristide’s hidden garden. Musical scores, photos and sketches of Montmartre recall his past as a cabaret artist.