Exclusive interview with Sylvie de Lattre, following the launch of SGHL Recamier / Paris / Place Saint-Sulpice
http://hotelrecamier.com/fr/
Luxury hotels encounters an unprecedented crisis in 2009. You run a beautiful jewel Recamier, but with the advantage of arriving in being in tune with market needs.
Q1 / Would you say that there is a growing demand for "small" luxury hotels in Paris [as opposed to large cruise ships luxury hotel chains]?
Yes quite. Particularly because of the desire to return to true values and consumption has a human scale: the elitism that's true.
Q2 / What are the specific expectations of clients luxury hotel in 2009? Or in other words, what has changed over the past 3 years in the customer what type of institution?
From "no nonsense" of true service, concierge Advanced ... What has changed? I do not know!, I begin to test this customer there!
Q3 / What You aim nationalities in terms of customers within 3 years?
Americans, British, Northern European [not the "BRICS" who want space and luxury over foil].
Q4 / Among the "tendency" to create surprise, surprise, a new experience, what could you give us examples of what you put in place Recamier? What are the outliers that we will not find elsewhere?
Busts of Madame Recamier "revisited" in the way of six contemporary artists, the idea being to make a nod to all the clichés about Paris' history. Skirmishes Some of these tables are "shifted" and by contrast humor with the "seriousness" decoration [contemporary photographers broadcast by the Lumas Gallery].
Q5 / You who travel a lot, what is your outlook on French hospitality ? What we lack to be on top and what we have and more that are not found in other countries? Would you say that the French Recamier combines touch and an avant-garde of modernity?
AS OFTEN FAILED / True kindness, and in the small family hotels, professionalism sometimes. In the provinces, adaptation to modern amenities [viewed this as a hotel and relay towers in the southwest, whose benefits bathroom were unacceptable for this category]. Generally some very French arrogance.
The danger is to transform us into a museum. What we have: the country ! ["Without the French, it would be perfect," say the English with some reason]. Gastronomy course
The Recamier is a luxury mansion revisited in the sauce of the last century [the twentieth century].
Q6 / Your or your favorite room in Recamier? The
62: black and white
Q7 / What you brought back from your travels abroad and have returned to Recamier?
sense of service and hospitality, quality bathrooms.
cosmopolitan taste of the contact and the ability to adapt to very different expectations
Q8 / The spirit of luxury in the future is what?
Read the book by Christian Blanckaert [Hermes]: LUXURY
Q9 / If you had 30 seconds to explain to foreigners how the Recamier Hotel is a deluxe French very different and very glamorous, you say why?
It Is chic, 24 different rooms, 150 different fabrics, has very talented interior designer [Jean-Louis Deniot, watch out!] And was very friendly to professional staff. Unique rental
