Prince de Galles, A Luxury Collection Hotel: Where Art Deco Meets High Fashion In Paris’s Golden Triangle
Step out from Prince de Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel into Paris’s style scene. This Art Deco icon offers luxury suites, fine dining, and exclusive access to the city’s design history.
By Kenneth Goh - published
I like my Paris hotels to have personality. Not the generic five-star kind, but the sort that makes you feel you’ve stepped into a romantic story, which is natural considering Paris is the City of Love. Prince de Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel on Avenue George V is exactly that.
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A neighbour to Dior, and steps from Chanel and Louis Vuitton, it is situated in the city’s “Golden Triangle”: the area located between avenue Montaigne, avenue des Champs-Elysées and avenue George V that offers a front-row seat to the city’s fashion pulse.
Opened in 1929, the hotel is pure Art Deco, with wrought-iron handrails and large stained-glass windows that catch the light for essential OOTD’s. The hotel rooms blend Macassar ebony, Saint Laurent marble, and custom furniture with the precision of a perfectly tailored jacket.
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My Lalique Suite was a two-level oasis of luxury and opulence. The rooftop terrace has clear Eiffel Tower views—very postcard, very private. Containing its own lift, a separate dining room that’s flooded with natural light and fashion reference books subtly propped in every corner, the vibes were pure Deco—think Louise Brooks draped languidly on a silken chaise lounge or Rudolf Valentino in a tailcoat suit and a Martini in hand.
The Lalique suite is decked out in the French brand’s signature glassware and felt more like a private club than a bedroom. I half expected a film crew to sweep in for an impromptu shoot.
Paris is celebrating 100 years of Art Deco and the hotel’s “Unlocking Art Deco” tour is as stylish as it sounds. It begins with a short walk down to Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, all clean lines and quiet drama, then the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, home to 1920s rooms so perfect you’d expect Coco Chanel to glide in.
The Palais d’Iéna is sharp and architectural, the Palais de Tokyo theatrical, and Printemps… well, if shopping is a sport, this is your Olympic arena, complete with a stained-glass dome worthy of a couture finale.
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Bar 19.20
Back at the hotel, the fashion references keep flowing. Bar 19.20 by Norbert Tarayre has all the rich traditions of French bistronomic cuisine.
Akira Back is the unexpected pairing—offering modern Japanese cuisine with French accents.
The thing about Prince de Galles is it’s both an address and an attitude. You’re close to the fashion show venues, the ateliers, the museums, but also tucked away enough to feel like a local.
It’s a place for exploring, for dressing up, for staying in. But always in the height of quiet luxury. C’est si bon.