The Gallery
Quietly opening this past spring, the new 118-room Sax Paris makes a good addition to the 7th arrondissement, providing guests with a front-row seat to Paris at its most quintessentially elegant.
The first plus is the location: The new hotel is discreetly set on Avenue de Saxe, a leafy street from which it gets its name, within a neo-Gothic building that once served as the Ségur telephone exchange. While the immediate surrounding area can be sleepy and residential, the 7th arrondissement is home to so many of Paris’ top landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower.
Sax Paris
The neighborhood is also home to Les Invalides, a complex of buildings and monuments famed for its skyline-defining gilded dome and housing the Musée de l’Armée and Napoleon’s tomb. Musée Rodin is a delight for art lovers, with sculptures nestled in its gardens, and, of course, there is the world-renowed Musée d’Orsay and the contemporary Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. On the foodie front, there’s the pedestrian market on Rue Cler, a pretty street lined with boulangeries, fromageries and cafés. Plus, the hotel is not far from the beloved gourmet grocer, La Grande Epicerie de Paris, a subsidiary of Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche.
There is also no shortage of draws within the hotel. Just off the hotel’s entrance hides The Gallery, a dazzling, tunnel-like red bar that glows with 200 mirrors, Baccarat crystal chandeliers and video projections. Walk through the quaint lobby to find another hidden gem, the Sax Garden, a romantic French-style garden restaurant, complete with a heated outdoor pool (a rarity in Paris), checkerboard marble floors and green foliage.
Sax Paris
Guest rooms are impeccably designed sanctuaries, with muted, retro tones and book-ended black-and-white marble bathrooms. Some even offer private terraces or Eiffel Tower views. Bespoke minibars come stocked with goodies from the nearby La Grande Epicerie de Paris. Another highlight of the hotel is the subterranean wellness space with Technogym equipment, sauna, hammam and a handful of treatment rooms for everything from facials to deep-tissue massages.
Sax Paris' Deluxe Junior Suite
Sax Paris' Prestige Room Twin
The star of the hotel’s food and beverage options is the indoor/outdoor Kinugawa Rive Gauche, perched across two levels on the 8th-floor rooftop. Bringing the brand’s signature sceney Franco-Japanese flair to the Left Bank, Kinugawa was founded in Paris in 2010 and quickly became one of the city’s most fashionable Asian dining addresses, later expanding with sister restaurants in hotspots like Saint-Tropez, Megève and Dubai. The Rive Gauche outpost has some of the best Eiffel Tower and skytop views in the city. On the menu, expect trendy and upscale bites like toro sashimi with ponzu, miso-marinated black cod and tuna tartare with caviar.
By night, live DJs set a glamorous tone, making Kinugawa as much a scene as it is a dining destination. Come morning, the same space doubles as the hotel’s breakfast spot.
Kinugawa Rive Gauche
Kinugawa Rive Gauche
