Hotel Alfred Sommier

In the Haut-Marais on the Right Bank, this Belle Époque townhouse preserves its original stone façade, wrought-iron balconies, and mansard roof, the ground floor opening to a courtyard garden with upper salons retaining painted ceilings and parquet de Versailles. The venue hosts fifty to one hundred thirty guests and places guests in the sophisticated residential texture of late nineteenth-century Paris—a neighborhood where writers, painters, and minor nobility created a counterculture of taste. Intellectual and artistic patronage shaped local character.