Pershing Hall Hotel

This mini-Costes of just 26 rooms is named after the <b>American general Pershing</b> who stayed in the building during the war. What he would make of the trance music, the dimly lit corridors and the space-ship décor – mixed with 70s retro – is anybody’s guess. All they are missing is one of his tanks outside.

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<b>Pershing Hall</b> has become one of the leading design hotels in <b>Paris</b>, and design groupies will appreciate its style. The building retains tall ceilings, and the white walls and blond wood built-in cupboards give the rooms a stark, Spartan but new-age feel. Sinks are of the farmhouse variety, with bathrooms of grey/brown slate and travertine marble. Only suites and some juniors have power showers and tubs – otherwise it’s a choice. Some of the smaller junior suites have balconies. Street side rooms have tall elegant traditional windows – elsewhere they are modern and not so pleasing.

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The most pleasing feature here is the courtyard garden, with its <b>retractable roof</b>. A wall of moist greenery tumbles down one end. The place is always full of fashionable diners and drinkers, and they do a wonderful Sunday brunch with jazz. In the evenings the bar is buzzing, sometimes with a DJ.