While a stay in Paris has always stirred up all manner of enigmatic between-the-sheets romance, an ever-growing number of boutique hotels throughout the city are making a determined and glorious effort to uphold this tradition in as many imaginatively special ways as possible. Ranging from contemporary sophisticate to haute art bohemian there are now inordinate opportunities to enjoy a stylish fling.
If Marie Antoinette married Rudyard Kipling and they were transported into the 21st century, they might come up with the kind of pretty that inhabits Hotel Daniel.
This hotel dips dangerously in Starck design territory with its channelling of neo-Baroque in as many shades of grey as you might see weathering one Paris day.
Inside a large sober white stone house the interiors have been transformed into five suites that let you see inside the imaginations of artists from around world.