Dorothée Meilichzon is still in her early 30s and already has six hotel designs to her credit; take a look at one of them, Hotel des Grands Boulevards, in an 18th-century building in Paris’s Second Arrondissement, with a nod to Louis XVI style.
Set back from the street, the hotel—formerly used as an office building—is entered through a broad courtyard surrounded by plantings.
The Shell, a moody cocktail bar, features 1960s chairs by Italian architect Eugenio Gerli, which Meilichzon sent back in time by upholstering them in a flame stitch and carmine-red velvet.
Each of the 50 guest rooms has lime plaster walls and custom-dyed linen draperies.
A nod to Marie Antoinette’s fantasy farm at Versailles: Rustic stools serve as bedside tables.
Meilichzon chose a rough linen for the canopies—”so it looks old"—custom stained by French fabric house Nobilis.
In most cases, Meilichzon matched the headboard and curtain color.
Marbre corail, a red marble synonymous with Louis XVI, appears throughout the hotel.
The bathroom’s fanciful tiles were handmade for the hotel by Céramiques du Beaujolais, near Lyon.