Dupond-Smith | Peyroux & Thisy

The heart of Paris’s Marais quarter is home to a new hotel, an address that exudes the atmosphere of a “select club”, where guests can enjoy one of today’s greatest luxuries: the pleasure of being incognito. Dupond-Smith is akin to a code, a password to the lap of luxury, which conceals a haven of peace and quiet carefully shielded from prying eyes. five rooms, three suites, and hushed elegance and refinement where you can enjoy Paris away from it all, in setting that’s in a class of its own.

Dupond-Smith enjoys a unique location, nestled in a genuine 17th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, which rises up four floors, drawn skywards to the rooftops of the French capital. The spacious rooms and suites offer the ultimate in comfort and relaxation, in exclusively elegant settings designed by leading architect duo Anne Peyroux and Emmanuèle Thisy.

The Dupond-Smith is a hotel of many atmospheres. Although the décor does not necessarily follow a unity of period or colour scheme, there is a harmony of taste inherited from the most inspired of French traditions. The melange of culture and boldness, art and art of living, creates a sense of harmony in which talent and artistic integrity come together in true harmony.

Body and soul
Designer furniture from here and there, today and yesteryear, offer the ultimate in comfort and wellbeing, as the cornerstones on which the rooms and suites very own spacious, private realm is created.

Inspired identity
The eight rooms and suites explore the concept of identity, working on the premise that “I is another”. All are named after the distinguished – often tonguein-cheek – aliases of illustrious figures. Here and there you will find clues to these famous pseudonyms, behind which you can take shelter in complete confidentiality.

Quintessential “art de vivre”
Secluded, and therefore happy, with few or no public areas, the Dupond-Smith places the emphasis on in-suite and in-room service, so that our guests are at leisure to create their own private in the comfort of spacious surroundings.

LORD R’HOONE
Ceramic tiling that recreates the look of crumpled, blank pages, with celadon velvet and noble wood phrasing, industrial touches, punctuated with orange, and a small balcony as an interlude… Lord R’Hoone – the anagram that Honoré de Balzac used to sign his early works – offers a lively host of pirouettes and contrasting styles.

MONSIEUR MOJO RISIN
An atmosphere of marbled sheet music, psychedelic riffs, rock ’n’ classic harmonies, and melodies in emerald… The Monsieur Mojo Risin – Jim Morrison to his acquaintances – goes for major chords with retrographic clarity.

ALAN SMITHEE
Close-ups of wood and velours, platinum notes, azure-blue and shades of California, the Alan Smithee – the pen name used by film-makers if they didn’t want their names to appear in a commissioned film’s credits – features décors with a glamorous patinated sheen.

JOSEPH L’ESTRANGE
Dandyesque damask fittings, Lavallière silk, lavish bronze, and refined trompe l’œil effects are just some of the room’s many appointments. The Joseph L’Estrange – from the name of the fictitious translator invented by the writer and member of the French Academy, Prosper Mérimée – conceals a secret: its balcony, high up, overlooking the rooftops of Paris, beckons you to enjoy the picturesque views and the exhilarating feeling that you can almost touch the sky.

CLARA GAZUL
Theatrical flourishes and scrolls, romantic, oldfashioned visible beams, watery shades of almond, and a whisper of glass… the Clara Gazul – another of Prosper Mérimée’s inventions, but this time as a playwright – has the authentic charm of rooms under the eaves.

SAINT LEGER LEGER
Leather marquetry, graphic apostrophes, tonic red touches and poetic lighting… the Saint Léger Léger – one of poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse’s many assumed names – offers an outstanding double exposure, on both the Rue des Guillemites and the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, and also overlooking the courtyard and its small private balcony.

JAMES JEWEL
Hypnotic silk, star-studded yellow, and aesthetic elegance… the James Jewel – the real name which true fans will have no trouble recognising belongs to the iconic rock legend with iguana looks – asserts exquisite, glowing masculine-feminine luxe.

JOHN DOE
Renaissance-style wallcoverings, a minimalist metal overtones, reminiscences of the “Sweet fifties”, pixellated effects… The John Doe – in other words the name given to an unidentified person in Englishspeaking countries – resolutely blurs the tracks, for the purposes of exquisite elegance.