Hoosta Magazine

• The hotel is one of the last members of Hoosta Style Hotels Collection
Step inside this charming small hotel and immerse yourself in luxury and fine details: a night at the Hotel des
Académies et des Arts is also an encounter with art, where silhouettes known as “White Figures” will be your guides. The aim of the hotel’s owners, Charlotte and Laurent Inchauspé, is for every client to feel at home in this unique place.
Just a few steps from the Luxembourg Gardens, opposite the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière, a well-known art school, this hotel remembers the roaring twenties, when Montparnasse was a magnet for artists such as Picasso, Modigliani and Fujita. Inspired by the hotel’s past and the history of the neighbourhood, Charlotte and Laurent wanted to revive the hotel’s artistic heritage by bringing together several artists to create an original backdrop for contemporary works of art.

• Discover the hotel’s video made by cool TV “Intérieurs” (in French)

Sophie de Watrigant and Jérôme Mesnager have invested the place with their artistic imagination. Sophie’s sculptures are dotted around the lobby and the “petit bistrot”, going right up the main staircase, where small figures climbing ladders are suspended in the stairwell. Jérôme Mesnager’s jointed figures are painted directly onto wallpaper which serves as his canvas. Take the lift up to the top floor and admire another of Mesnager’s works as you ascend. A white giant also appears on the red-painted wall of the inner courtyard and can be seen from the ground floor right up to the fifth floor.

These white figures, the new custodians of the hotel, inhabit a luxurious and elegant space, a subtle mix of traditional and contemporary materials.

The twenty rooms are decorated in four inviting themes. The walls are covered in warm tones – taupe, beige, prune or red – and luxurious materials – wood, leather, velvet and satin. One of the themes is black and white.

The bathrooms are lined in stone, a natural material providing an imaginative contrast with more refined elements, such as the sculptured taps.

On the ground floor, a succession of rooms lead off from one another - a library, a fireside sitting room, the “petit bistrot” and the video art screening room - giving the impression of being in an intimate, private residence, a far cry from the large, impersonal lobbies of traditional hotels.

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