The Saint James Paris is located in a ritzy residential neighborhood, the 16th Arrondissement. The Saint James even has its own herb garden, and a beehive that provides all of the honey used at the hotel’s restaurant.
Staff take great care to give the property the atmosphere of tranquility that one might find at a countryside chateau. The hotel’s on-site Michelin-starred restaurant is only open to club members and hotel guests during the day, but it's open to the public for dinner by reservation only.Īlthough the property is wedged between two city boulevards, it feels a world apart, particularly on the hotel’s outdoor terrace or its expansive front lawn. During the day, members meet for lunch, or host business engagements at the cozy library bar. Club members have access to the property’s restaurant, spa, fitness center, and private meeting rooms. This hushed and exclusive atmosphere comes in part because the Saint James Paris is actually a members-only club that also functions as a hotel for members and outside guests. Children are technically welcome, though parents with little ones may feel out of place amongst buttoned-up businessmen and discerning older couples. The property has a library-quiet feel that may make some guests uncomfortable. To say the Saint James has an exclusive atmosphere would be an understatement. The hotel's eccentric decor comes courtesy of Bambi Sloan, a famed French-American designer known for her reality-meets-fantasy stylings. Guests enter a dizzying lobby surrounded by so much black-and-white molding, gold-fringed red-velvet sofas, and checkerboard floors that it feels plucked from "Alice in Wonderland." The taxidermy zebra heads mounted on the fireplace would be outlandish anywhere else, but here, it's just another detail in the whimsical tableau. The lobby’s piece de resistance is the “chandelier of chaos,” a light fixture composed of 14 stacked chandeliers, which seems to hang precariously from the room’s 45-foot high ceiling. But the interiors are a completely different story. From its driveway, lined with small topiaries and circling a tiered fountain, the property seems frozen in time, with little changed since its days as an aristocratic home in the Second Empire. On the outside, the Saint James remains a stately neoclassical chateau - indeed it's the only chateau hotel in the city.
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