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Inside Paris’s Most Elite Hotel: The Newly Renovated Hôtel de Crillon

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    The Salon Marie Antoinette before the renovation.

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    The Salon des Aigles is named for the landmarked ceiling (featuring cartouches of the muses of power, wisdom, abundance, and truth, flanked by golden eagles), which is over 20 feet high and older than the United States.

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    A view of the hotel before the renovation. Opulent chandeliers and hand-carved walls still bring 18th-century authenticity to the Hôtel de Crillon.

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    The iconic facade of the Hotel Crillon, featuring Corinthian columns and sculptures by Coustou.

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    The glittering mica wall inlay and Amethyst crystals strewn about the surfaces of the Jardin d’Hiver are a nod to the room’s original aubergine chandeliers.

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    The Cour d’Honneur, reimagined by landscape designer Louis Benech, who was also entrusted to redesign the Water Theater grove at Versailles.

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    Gilded 18th century flourishes bring light to the impressive original woodwork in the Suite Duc de Crillon, once used as a private chapel for the Crillon family.

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    The Suite Marie Antoinette with it’s baldachin bed and quiet terrace overlooking the Cour d’Honneur was designed by Aline d’Amman, and resides next to the Salon where the Dauphine took music lessons.

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    The view of the Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais from the terrace of the newly renovated Bernstein suite, named for composer Leonard Bernstein, a frequent guest who wrote in the guestbook in 1989, “What a pleasure being once again on my terrace over Place de la Concorde.”

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    The original chandeliers in the Bar Les Ambassadeurs were updated with chain trimmings and lowered to bring an air of intimacy to the double height room, which sits beneath a landmarked vaulted ceiling painted to resemble the Parisian sky after the rain.