Once we went to Paris just lately to go to makers and reveals (similar to Man/Lady) I had the prospect to remain in one of many Cinabre suites, which I’ve been eager to do for ages.
Among the causes for this are menswear-related. Most clearly, the rooms are above Cinabre itself, so that you want no excuse for shopping a number of the handmade ties, dressing robes and classic sun shades whenever you verify in.
Then there are the subtler touches within the suites: every has a brass-buttoned blazer in your measurement (they ask beforehand), do you have to want one thing slightly smarter to exit and forgot to pack something. OK, it’s unlikely any PS reader would discover themselves on this scenario, however you continue to have to like the thought – I think about a complete set of vacationers steadily being reminded of the pleasure of going out in a very good blazer.
The studying materials within the rooms additionally has a menswear slant, with magazines similar to Avaunt and a pleasingly area of interest choice of vogue books. In reality it’s most likely fairer to say there’s a vogue angle, with another craft and interiors combined in.
However regardless of these menswear points of interest, the larger cause I needed to remain at Cinabre (and certainly would need to keep anyplace) was that it seemed stunning, cosy and private.
There are solely two suites, and there’s a personal entrance subsequent door so that you don’t must undergo the store every time. If I may I believe I’d at all times keep in small locations like this, the place the variety of friends and employees means they at all times recognise you and also you recognise them; although after all greater than two rooms is okay.
In reality the extra I give it some thought, we have now fairly a number of opinions about motels, but it’s not one thing PS has ever written about. (I can not stand home windows that do not open, for instance.) Maybe doing this extra could be welcome, maybe not; as ever I’m positive you’ll tell us. We actually attempt sufficient given the quantity the staff travels these days.
The opposite benefit of small motels is that the rooms typically really feel distinctive and characterful. Generally that is by design, generally simply as results of age – members’ golf equipment are sometimes a superb instance of the latter, the place rooms simply appear to build up random furnishings through the years.
In the course of the go to to Paris I stayed in Cinabre’s Suite 2, which we’ve pictured right here. And it actually is gorgeous.
The lounge’s partitions and ceiling are lined with cloth in a Pierre Frey print – one which Cinabre founder Alexandre Chapellier retrieved from Frey’s archive. The mattress is from Hastens – not simply because it’s now a trendy title, however as a result of the manufacturing is completed in Koping, Sweden, the place Alexandre’s household are from.
It is all tasteful but distinct, and even when the decor slips slightly into louche from time to time – the wave-like wall-to-wall couch within the lounge being the apparent instance – it’s all very snug. In that case as a consequence of serried ranks of cushions.
You may as well sit on mint-green cushions across the toilet (beneath) and discuss to your companion whereas they’ve a shower. The large home windows on the entrance of the suite open onto a quiet avenue. Or there are home windows within the bed room that look throughout a small courtyard into the kitchen reverse.
Sure there’s a kitchen; there’s additionally a separate bathroom, a lounge, a eating room, a toilet and a bed room (the latter two divided from one another, and the lounge by curtains). The kitchen is stocked with high quality drinks and meals, as is the hidden bar, which is revealed whenever you push on a mirror within the eating room. It’s someplace you might really dwell – which I assume is how a set ought to really feel.
All this makes it very costly, and I ought to emphasise that I used to be a visitor of Alexandre’s throughout this go to. Nonetheless, I plan to convey my spouse a while, most likely for our anniversary later within the 12 months. At €1150 an evening it must be an event like that, although I do know for some readers it wouldn’t must be so particular.
I do know my spouse would love how the suites are tucked away on such a quiet, pedestrianised avenue – Cité Bergere, within the ninth. It’s in the course of Paris and near Gare du Nord, however feels worlds away from the busy and touristy Grand Boulevards outdoors.
I might additionally take her to the restaurant on the nook – Les Invisibles. That is all the things we like in a restaurant: small, pleasant, unfussy, with nice meals. The PS staff took Alexandre for dinner there one night time and sat outdoors, regardless of the upcoming risk of a storm. When it lastly got here poring down, everybody on the terrace crowded inside and carried on, as hail rattled on the home windows.
For people who care about such issues, a number of celebrities and movie stars (largely American) keep within the Cinabre suites, often for every week or two.
It’s truthfully not a cause for me to need to go – if something, I really feel barely aggravated that anybody else is staying in that room other than me. However I can see the way it elevates it within the eyes of others: it’s not only a unusual little menswear factor. And I can see why celebrities would need to keep right here, given its mixture of luxurious and privateness.
Cinabre, by the way in which, has expanded its clothes vary just lately, including some properly made tailoring and robes to the silk equipment it began with. However I will cowl these in a separate article a while.
The Cinabre Suites can be found to guide via their web site in addition to different reserving platforms. The one I stayed in is Suite No.2. The ground beneath, Suite No.1, is slightly larger and dearer. It features a pretty glassed-in atrium (beneath) and a sofa-bed.
Costs begin at €1150 and €1250 an evening for the 2 suites respectively. Images: Ludovic Balay / Alex Natt.
