Ooh the lovely one! In one of Paris's hottest new hotels - with the property's chic interiors, near the Champs-Élysées, inspired by a famous American designer
MailOnline Travel's Ted Thornhill checked into the swanky Norman Hotel. The property is part of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World portfolio. The hotel is a stone's throw from the Champs Élysées. READ MORE: The Mail checks into Glasgow's fanciest hotel
If there was an Oscar for headboards, it would be our fifth floor suite of the Norman hotel in Paris would be. be a contender.
Formed from sumptuous burnished wood that gently curves around the bed, with a centerpiece of stitched brown upholstery and sockets and lamps incorporated into the design on one side or the other, I'd bet the judges would be slightly spellbound.
And it's not anything that would catch their eye, because this newly opened hotel – just a stone's throw from the Champs Elysées and part of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World portfolio – is an aesthete's paradise, its look a bewitching fusion of French creativity and American.
The architect behind the design is Paris-based Thomas Vidalenc, the name of the hotel referring to its inspiration, the American modernist Norman Ives.
Ives (1923-1978) was a Bauhaus-influenced painter and professor of graphic design at Yale, with the hotel stating that his "taste for the color, the simplicity, the functional and harmonious shapes inspired the particular atmosphere of the Norman hotel”.
What is this means for the guests?
If there was an Oscar for headboards, it would be our fifth floor suite of the Norman hotel in Paris would be. be a contender.
Formed from sumptuous burnished wood that gently curves around the bed, with a centerpiece of stitched brown upholstery and sockets and lamps incorporated into the design on one side or the other, I'd bet the judges would be slightly spellbound.
And it's not anything that would catch their eye, because this newly opened hotel – just a stone's throw from the Champs Elysées and part of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World portfolio – is an aesthete's paradise, its look a bewitching fusion of French creativity and American.
The architect behind the design is Paris-based Thomas Vidalenc, the name of the hotel referring to its inspiration, the American modernist Norman Ives.
Ives (1923-1978) was a Bauhaus-influenced painter and professor of graphic design at Yale, with the hotel stating that his "taste for the color, the simplicity, the functional and harmonious shapes inspired the particular atmosphere of the Norman hotel”.
What is this means for the guests?
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