La Fantaisie, a new boutique hotel in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, is a sleeper’s paradise. It’s located on a pedestrian street that’s dotted with food and wine shops and seemingly devoid of tourists. That’s a long way of saying it’s quiet. Opening your eyes to greet the day, you will probably wake up on the right side of the bed, because the room is decorated like a good mood. It’s all sunny yellows, greens, pale blues, and pinks, which sounds possibly stress-inducing but is absolutely charming and unexpectedly soothing. It’s the work of Martin Brudnizki, the London-based Swede who also created the interiors for Annabel’s in London (which a friend describes as “maximalist Amazon rainforest meets San Simeon”). The rest of the hotel is more energized, but not Annabel’s-manic. Flowers bloom everywhere in honor of the Cadet brothers, 16th-century master gardeners who gave Rue Cadet, where the hotel is located, its name. It’s as bucolic as a city hotel can be.
—Linda Wells

Linda Wells is the Editor at AIR MAIL LOOK