Lally Berger, the Lyon based design studio, reimagines the Belle Etoile Suite at Le Meurice in Paris

The majestic, centuries old Le Meurice hotel, along Paris’ river Seine, offers an uber luxe accommodation on its top floor. The Belle Etoile Suite is an almost 6,500 sq ft space with breathtaking views of the city’s most iconic monuments—the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais. Hired to renovate Le Meurice’s 160 rooms and suites, Margaux Lally and Luc Berger of Lyon based Lally Berger painstakingly crafted the interiors. “We revisited the classical codes in the property’s other spaces.

 

The idea was to feel as if you are in the same hotel but in another era and that translated into some contemporary touches within a traditional framework,” explains Berger. The duo used the architectural language of Parisian town mansions, most notably in the use of materials such as marble thresholds, a chevron patterned parquet, wood panelling, gilding and bronze door handles with handcrafted details. The Tuileries Gardens next door especially influenced the design of the suite. Some of the botanical allusions in the space include the banister of the spiral staircase in the entry foyer with its branch motif as well as the chandelier with glass palmettes. The colour palette predominantly features bluish greys and grey tinged greens, symbolising “the way the Parisian sky changes during the day, over the months and seasons,” as Lally puts it.