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Hiding Away in Montmartre

Where: 23 Avenue Junot, Paris, France, 75018

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven Katie K fancies a trip to Paris. Enjoy.

This being V-day weekend, I’m feeling a bit sappy — so today’s daydream takes me to clichéd-for-a-reason Montmartre, Paris. In realityland, my most romantic romp in Montmartre was a closet-size rental apartment, but as you know, cubicle dreamin’ calls for a more crème brulee kind of hotel experience.

Voila, the Hotel Particulier de Montmartre, listed prominently on Conde Nast Traveler’s 2008 Hot List.

The five-suite boutique hotel is housed in an 18th-century guesthouse cached in a cobbled corner of swoony Montmartre and surrounded by well-manicured gardens (curated by landscape architect Louis Bénech, the lauded gent who renovated the Tuileries). Though each room is distinct and fascinating, I’m booking the Vegetal guest room, where pretty artist-created wallpaper evokes a treehouse feel.

At Hotel Particulier, rather than drowning in Montmartre’s schmaltzy charm I’ll be sitting pretty in a Mies van der Rohe chair, helping myself to the honor bar while admiring the avant-garde designs of Mats Haglund, a Finnish designer who has worked for Chanel, and other art and fashion luminaries.

[Photo: Hotel Particulier]