No quaint boutique with riffs on Provence, this hotel is a proper baby grand. Swags of cloth drape over floor-to-ceiling windows in the rooms; smoky mirrors cover closet doors. It's old-world through and through, but with an overlay of modern design to brighten the patina of the past. (Alas, the location, though, right off the Champs-Élysées, is a dud.)
7 rue de Berri, 8th; 877-757-2747; hotel-lancaster.fr