Cereal City Guide: Paris

The acclaimed travel and style magazine presents a curated portrait of Paris for visitors with a passion for culture, design, and architecture.

Inspired by their extensive travel for the magazine, Cereal founders Rich Stapleton and Rosa Park began issuing a series of city guides that highlight their favorite places to visit. Curated rather than comprehensive, Cereal City Guide: Paris explores points of interest and venues that reflect Cereal’s aesthetic and unique sensibility.

Rich and Rosa have personally visited hundreds of venues in Paris, distilling their preferred locales down to their firm favorites. From lively, local cafés to design-driven boutiques that channel the inimitable Parisian savoir faire, these hidden treasures offer a more personal take on the city.

Meticulously researched and illustrated with original photography, this guide includes photo essays of the city, an illustrated neighborhood map, interviews and essays from celebrated locals, essential architectural points of interest, museums, galleries, day trips outside the city, and unique goods to buy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781683353409

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PLACES TO VISIT

HÔTEL NATIONAL DES ARTS ET MÉTIERS

HOTEL

in LE MARAIS (3)

A calm refuge in a busy neighborhood, the new Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers is an elegant expression of celebrated designer and art director Raphael Navot’s first foray into hotel design. Placing an emphasis on the use of raw materials, most of which, like the majestic Paris stone columns, have been tempered by hand, the space is awash with a mineral color palette and fitted out with elegant, bespoke furniture. At night, visitors and guests mingle in the Italian restaurant downstairs, or take in the panoramic view on the rooftop terrace.

Cereal talks to Raphael Navot (see this page)

[phone]

hotelnational.paris

243 rue Saint-Martin

Paris, FR 75003

LES BAINS

HOTEL

in LE MARAIS (3)

Les Bains has been something of a chameleon over the centuries, and its storied past has placed it at the epicenter of Parisian culture. Once a nineteenth-century public bathhouse where Marcel Proust used to bathe, it was transformed into a legendary club, oft-compared to Studio 54 in the 1980s. Today, it’s been reborn as a luxury boutique hotel. Its rooms and suites have been elegantly furnished using raw materials including Carrara marble and mahogany, while finer details like sumptuous velvet sofas in jewel tones allude to its decadent history. Downstairs, the spacious restaurant and bar are furnished with checkered flooring and undulating ceilings that form the shape of giant water drops—perhaps an ode to the building’s first life. The latest incarnation of Les Bains retains its bohemian edge and provides an ideal base from which to explore the city.

[phone]

lesbains-paris.com

7 rue du Bourg l’Abbé

Paris, FR 75003

HÔTEL DES GRANDS BOULEVARDS

HOTEL

in OPÉRA (2)

Grands Boulevards pairs eighteenth-century Parisian elegance with modern sensibilities. In the rooms, canopied beds and red marble surfaces subtly nod to the styles of Louis XVI of France, which are then softened by linen sheets and worn wooden furniture. For evening drinks, head to The Shell, the hotel’s cocktail bar, named for one of the eighteenth century’s favored motifs; or venture to the rooftop terrace, where views of the 2nd arrondissement accompany the