Hoosta Magazine

What is common between the famous photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue and author tormented Senior Stormwind? The sensitivity of one and the romanticism of the other talk to Morgan and Frederic Rousseau Comtet. It felt strange and familiar to them upon discovering their future address in Paris. The Hotel Particulier Montmartre they have created offers the traveller a Parisian stopover nourished by human and artistic sensibility.

Hoosta: You previously owned an artist residence in the Beaujolais, you are now hotelier in Paris, how going from one to another?

Morgane Rousseau: Our hotel is a continuation of what we have achieved so far. Receiving artists and working with them gave us the idea of creating a art gallery hotel in Paris, capital of creation. The Passagede la sorcière, where lies the hotel in Montmartre, has guided our steps towards this house that seemed immediately familiar, like a childhood home that we found. I have long wanted to do this job because I love to receive people and have a real relationship with them. To do this we need to offer them a home, both elegant and discreet, where they feel at ease.

Frédéric Comtet: While the development of the house was designed to enable our customers to receive at the hotel just like at home. For me, the Hotel Particulier Montmartre is a work in itself, not only through the intervention of artists but by the experiences of which it is charged. It is an object, a place that has intended to stay. It is a continuation of what we’ve done so far.

Hoosta: How can we appropriate a hotel room as spacious as it is?

M.R: This is the spirit of our project! The size of the hotel is like a beautiful house with five bedrooms, a sitting room, a garden and a dining room beside the kitchen. We created the atmosphere of a house with comfortable furniture, noble materials, books, dvds… Our suites are very different from each other, they each have their own world, our guests can choose depending on their mood a gentle intimacy or a happy closeness with the other guests of the house. As a housewife, I am very committed to the discretion and I let everyone live according to their tastes.

Hoosta: Between discretion and animation, how do you balance?

FC: To capture the spirit of the place, imagine a writer installed for a month or two, free of all the material contingencies, who can isolate himself to write in the hotel, receive friends or meet people like him who are sensitive to art and creation. We hope that this is the place that inspires the desire for people to gather, exchange, share a little in their minds. We also plan to open a bar between 6 and 10 o’clock which access will be restricted to club members and their guests.

Hoosta: You seem both very committed to this house. Why?

MR: It is a place whose personality and history combine to impose its law! The house boasts a strong presence and there are certain things we can not afford in a place like this. A few years ago, the property has been the subject of a housing project designed to divide the house into apartments, but by a combination of unexpected circumstances the project could not succeed. The legend says that a woman has lived alone in this huge house. The children of the neighborhood call her “the witch” . The passage de la sorcière became the passage of the witch adding mystery to the house.

FR: We felt something very strong from our first visit. The austere side, a little disturbing of the house hit me. For Morgan, it is the provincial and the family side of the place that charmed her. During the work, this ambiguity has forced us to exercise requirement because we wanted our respective sensitivities to be respected. Our complementarities has succeeded in making the hotel a place both surprising and endearing.

Hoosta: What do you wish now that the hotel is open to the public?

FR: During our experience in art and cinema, we have learned to go after ourselves, it always require more work. It’s the same for the hotel, I see it as an object that is constantly changing, which requires that we give it life, so that they can grow, develops its personality and endures beyond us.

M.R: My dream? That this house remains a house. My greatest satisfaction is seeing how many customers appreciate. I am happy to give others the opportunity to enjoy this place.

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