
If you want to stay somewhere that’s truly trendy, do what the A-listers do and reach for one of Herbert Ypma’s Hip Hotels books. Hip Hotels author Herbert Ypma‘s latest book covers Paris.The photographer and writer Herbert Ypma grew up in the Netherlands, US, Mexico and Australia, and studied design and architecture. He worked as a magazine publisher and journalist before moving to London in 1993 and turning to book publishing. He launched his famous series Hip Hotels, in which he set out to find the world’s most “highly individual places”, in May 1999….
“One night in Paris. If there is a city in the world that could make just one night memorable and worthwhile it would have to be Paris” was mentionned by the well known herbert Ypma’s city guide about the romantic city & its most trendy hotels…
Situated on a quiet street a few blocks from the Champs Elysées, it’s not what you would expect to find in what is known as the Golden Triangle of Paris, an area famous for its designer boutiques and expensive hotels. Le A is a Marais kind of hotel that happens to be in the 8th. Its design marks a new period in the work of the French designer Frédéric Mechiche, whose style has evolved from a Neo-Classical influence to a focus on modern art. Le A takes the Parisian love of detail and refinement, gives it a shake-up, and employs one artist to furnish the interior as if it were a gallery show. 