Paris

April 22, 2024

Europe, Feature, France, Paris, Travel

THE renowned Plaza Athénée hotel, a member of Dorchester Collection, originally opened in 1913. This unashamedly opulent property with 154 bedrooms and 54 suites is located within the Golden Triangle of France...

Glass indulges in French heritage at Hotel Prince des Galles

Imogen Clark

January 22, 2024

Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

TAKING pride of place on Avenue George V, Hotel Prince des Galles’s central location, nestled between the Champs-Elysées and the Eiffel Tower, captures the very essence of Paris. Steeped in history and con...

Glass is awed by the stunning Le Meurice, Paris

October 23, 2023

Feature, Paris, Travel

SITUATED opposite the relaxing Jardin Tuilleries and just steps from the world’s most famous art gallery – the Louvre and France’s finest shopping street Rue Saint-Honoré - as well as the dramatic Place de la ...

Mercedes-Benz unveils exclusive art collaboration with Kid Cudi

Zlata Kryudor

October 26, 2022

Design, Exhibitions, News, Paris

AS PART of its continued endeavours to expand on its core values of innovation and technology, last Friday, 21 October, Mercedes-Benz invited those in Paris for an immersive experience at an exclusive event dub...

Saint Laurent Longines Global Champions Tour-Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping competition

Saint Laurent present two challenges for Longines Global Champions Tour

Alicia Tomkinson

June 28, 2022

Fashion, Paris, Sport

CREATIVE Director at Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello joins the Longines Global Champions Tour-Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping competition event from 24 June to 26 June 2022. As celebrations are underway for ...

Glass hotel-hops in Paris and Normandy with MGallery

Rachel McCormack

May 24, 2018

Europe, Feature, France, Paris, Travel

GLASS has been exploring the MGallery family of hotels in central Paris. Each hotel in the MGallery portfolio has a unique story, a history that is treasured and teased out to create a distinctive and memorable...

Adding colour to the chandeliers – Glass visits Le Bristol, Paris

Stephanie Clair

August 29, 2016

Art, Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

THE relationship between art and hotels has long been a difficult one – fraught with hotels garnishing their walls with a last-minute thought of bulk-bought art and subsequently falling at the last hurdle. In t...

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Glass visits Paris – Literature and Language at Le Pavillon Des Lettres

Stephanie Clair

June 28, 2016

Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

VISITING Paris years ago, when both my French and cycling skills were far better, I (now nostalgically) remember riding to the local boulangerie in the morning ordering my coffee and croissant in French without...

Pop Art at Le Meurice, Paris

September 29, 2015

Art, Culture, Europe, News, Paris, Travel

To celebrate the arrival of the Andy Warhol Unlimited Exhibition at the Paris National Museum of Modern Art, the Dorchester collection’s Le Meurice has conceived a special Pop Art Package. For the duration of t...

Soaking up the je ne sais quoi

July 1, 2015

Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

Parisian chic – that certain je ne sais quoi that many of us Brits like to try to absorb on long weekends across the channel – is an elusive attribute. There are places in the city, however, where the essence o...

A secret sanctuary

June 22, 2015

Europe, Feature, Paris

The 16th arrondisement in Paris, much like New York’s Upper East Side or London’s Knightsbridge, is a district synonymous with affluence and prestige. It is also the largest, with the grand Palais de Chaill...

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche

January 12, 2015

Culture, Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche The charming and petite L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is one of the last vestiges of a bohemian and artistic society ...

Making a splash in Paris – The Molitor Hotel

June 24, 2014

Europe, News, Paris, Travel

The nautically themed MGallery Molitor hotel Paris, located in the 16th Arrondissement, has recently opened with much excitement and anticipation. In its former life, the Piscine Molitor occupied the site – an ...

Stylish renovations for Pullman Paris Montparnasse

May 26, 2014

Avant Art, Europe, News, Paris, Travel

Pullman Paris Montparnasse is proud to unveil its new look after 18 months of renovations. The hotel, ideally located on the Rive Gauche and just a stone’s throw away from Montparnasse train station, offers gue...

East meets West

January 13, 2014

Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

Rue Saint-Honoré is one of the Glass team’s favourite streets in Paris – filled with stores we love, chocolatiers we crave and boulangeries we miss. Perfect for us then that the Mandarin Oriental group have...

Three perfect days in Paris 6eme Rive Gauche – day three

November 13, 2013

Avant Art, Europe, Paris, Travel

The morning began with a fresh coffee and oeuf au jambon at Bistrot Mazarin, next to La Palette, where we met Sebastiano Varoli. A curator with a very different perspective on how art should be exhibited, b...

Fit for a Queen

October 30, 2013

Europe, Paris, Travel

Ah, Le Marais! To many, the pulse of hip Paris beats from the 3rd and 4th arrondisement. Its cute shops, gorgeous restaurants and grand museums occupy buildings steeped in the district’s royal history. Yet ...

Three perfect days in Paris 6eme Rive Gauche – day two

October 20, 2013

Avant Art, Europe, Paris, Travel

There is only one place to have your first breakfast in Paris – Les Deux Magots. Sitting in the morning sun opposite the oldest church in Paris, L’Eglise St Germain, it is the perfect place to begin a walking...

Three perfect days in Paris 6eme Rive Gauche – day one

October 13, 2013

Avant Art, Europe, Paris, Travel

. At six in the morning there was a run on the gates of Eurostar in St Pancras International, it seemed like everyone was leaving London. Looking around me I was struck by one of those thoughts that quickly ...

Peking to Paris 2013 Rally