# Le Grand Mazarin Brings a Maximalist Bar to a 14th Century Corner of the Marais

> Maisons Pariente's first five star hotel in Paris, designed by Martin Brudnizki inside a 14th century building in the Marais, is the kind of maximalist detour Riviera regulars increasingly build into a Paris stopover.

- Source: Monaco Day
- Canonical URL: https://monacoday.com/en/article/le-grand-mazarin-paris-heritage-imagination
- Author: Élodie Marchetti
- Section: Fine Dining
- Published: 2026-08-10T09:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T09:15:00.000Z
- Tags: Le Grand Mazarin, Martin Brudnizki, Paris
- French edition: https://monacoday.com/article/le-grand-mazarin-paris-heritage-imagination

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Le Grand Mazarin sits a few streets into the Marais, Maisons Pariente's first five star hotel in Paris, built inside a 14th century structure that the design itself refuses to treat quietly. Interior architect Martin Brudnizki, working on a project that departs from the restrained tone much of his recent hotel work is known for, drew his brief from the great houses of the aristocratic era, the kind of sumptuous salon where writers, painters and composers actually gathered rather than a generic idea of old Paris grandeur.

The 50 rooms and 11 suites commit to that brief without hedging. Boldly patterned couches and throw pillows sit under hand painted ceilings where ribbon motifs intertwine with foliage, and folksy prints cover walls and curtains in a combination that reads more like a private collector's house passed down for generations than a hotel decorated to a moodboard. Painted wooden chairs and oversized lampshades carry the same logic through into the smaller rooms, where restraint would have been the easier, safer choice.

The hotel's bar and pool sit at the center of the design rather than off to one side. A swimming pool with its own separate jacuzzi, reserved for residents, is built into the depths of the historic structure, and a fresco by Jacques Merle covers the pool area evoking the poetic, slightly surreal imagination of Jean Cocteau. It is the kind of amenity a hotel this size does not strictly need and includes anyway, because the whole project is built around excess used deliberately rather than avoided.

For readers who split their year between the Riviera and Paris, a maximalist hotel built this specifically around 18th century salon culture is a useful data point on where high end hotel design is heading generally, away from the pared back neutral tones that have dominated luxury hospitality for a decade and toward interiors willing to be looked at rather than simply lived in.

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