After we went to Paris lately to go to makers and exhibits (corresponding to Man/Lady) I had the prospect to remain in one of many Cinabre suites, which I’ve been desirous to do for ages. 

A few of the causes for this are menswear-related. Most clearly, the rooms are above Cinabre itself, so that you want no excuse for shopping a few of the handmade ties, dressing robes and classic sun shades while you verify in.

Then there are the subtler touches within the suites: every has a brass-buttoned blazer in your dimension (they ask beforehand), must you want one thing a bit of smarter to exit and forgot to pack something. OK, it’s unlikely any PS reader would discover themselves on this state of affairs, however you continue to have to like the concept – I think about an entire set of vacationers step by step being reminded of the pleasure of going out in a extremely good blazer.

The studying materials within the rooms additionally has a menswear slant, with magazines corresponding to Avaunt and a pleasingly area of interest number of vogue books. In actual fact it’s in all probability fairer to say there’s a vogue angle, with another craft and interiors combined in.  

However regardless of these menswear points of interest, the larger purpose I needed to remain at Cinabre (and certainly would need to keep anyplace) was that it seemed stunning, cosy and private. 

There are solely two suites, and there’s a non-public entrance subsequent door so that you don’t need to undergo the store every time. If I may I believe I’d all the time keep in small locations like this, the place the variety of visitors and employees means they all the time recognise you and also you recognise them; although after all greater than two rooms is ok.

In actual fact the extra I give it some thought, we now have fairly just a few opinions about lodges, but it’s not one thing PS has ever written about. (I can not stand home windows that do not open, for instance.) Maybe doing this extra could be welcome, maybe not; as ever I’m certain you’ll tell us. We definitely attempt sufficient given the quantity the group travels these days. 

The opposite benefit of small lodges is that the rooms usually really feel distinctive and characterful. Typically that is by design, typically simply as results of age – members’ golf equipment are sometimes a superb instance of the latter, the place rooms simply appear to build up random furnishings over time. 

Throughout the go to to Paris I stayed in Cinabre’s Suite 2, which we’ve pictured right here. And it actually is gorgeous. 

The lounge’s partitions and ceiling are lined with cloth in a Pierre Frey print – one which Cinabre founder Alexandre Chapellier retrieved from Frey’s archive. The mattress is from Hastens – not simply because it’s now a modern title, however as a result of the manufacturing is completed in Koping, Sweden, the place Alexandre’s household are from. 

It is all tasteful but distinct, and even when the decor slips a bit of into louche once in a while – the wave-like wall-to-wall couch within the lounge being the plain instance – it’s all very snug. In that case on account of serried ranks of cushions. 

You can even sit on mint-green cushions across the toilet (under) and discuss to your accomplice whereas they’ve a shower. The massive home windows on the entrance of the suite open onto a quiet road. Or there are home windows within the bed room that look throughout a small courtyard into the kitchen reverse. 

Sure there’s a kitchen; there’s additionally a separate bathroom, a lounge, a eating room, a rest room and a bed room (the latter two divided from one another, and the lounge by curtains). The kitchen is stocked with high quality drinks and meals, as is the hidden bar, which is revealed while you push on a mirror within the eating room. It’s someplace you could possibly really dwell – which I suppose is how a set ought to really feel. 

All this makes it very costly, and I ought to emphasise that I used to be a visitor of Alexandre’s throughout this go to. Nonetheless, I plan to carry my spouse a while, in all probability for our anniversary later within the 12 months. At €1150 an evening it must be an event like that, although I do know for some readers it wouldn’t need to be so particular. 

I do know my spouse would love how the suites are tucked away on such a quiet, pedestrianised road – Cité Bergere, within the ninth. It’s in the course of Paris and near Gare du Nord, however feels worlds away from the busy and touristy Grand Boulevards exterior. 

I might additionally take her to the restaurant on the nook – Les Invisibles. That is the whole lot we like in a restaurant: small, pleasant, unfussy, with nice meals. The PS group took Alexandre for dinner there one evening and sat exterior, regardless of the approaching menace of a storm. When it lastly got here poring down, everybody on the terrace crowded inside and carried on, as hail rattled on the home windows. 

For people who care about such issues, just a few celebrities and movie stars (largely American) keep within the Cinabre suites, often for per week or two. 

It’s truthfully not a purpose for me to need to go – if something, I really feel barely aggravated that anybody else is staying in that room other than me. However I can see the way it elevates it within the eyes of others: it’s not only a unusual little menswear factor. And I can see why celebrities would need to keep right here, given its mixture of luxurious and privateness. 

Cinabre, by the best way, has expanded its clothes vary lately, including some properly made tailoring and robes to the silk equipment it began with. However I am going to cowl these in a separate article a while. 

The Cinabre Suites can be found to guide by means of their web site in addition to different reserving platforms. The one I stayed in is Suite No.2. The ground under, Suite No.1, is a bit of greater and costlier. It features a beautiful glassed-in atrium (under) and a sofa-bed. 

Costs begin at €1150 and €1250 an evening for the 2 suites respectively. Pictures: Ludovic Balay / Alex Natt.