Hotel Plaza Athénée
Architect: Jean-Jacques Ory
Interior Designers: Bruno Moinard, Patrick Jouin, Sanjit Manku, Marie-José Pommereau
Description:
The Hotel Plaza Athénée is a Brunei-owned historic luxury. It is located at 25 Avenue Montaigne in the 8th arrondissement, near the Champs-Élysées and the Palais de Tokyo. The hotel is part of the Dorchester Collection group of international luxury hotels. On August 1, 2010, receiving the prestigious Living Heritage Company award (Enterprise du Patrimoine Vivant), in recognition of the hotel’s rich heritage and fine dining. This was followed in May 2011 one of the first hotels to receive the official ‘palace’ distinction, along with our sister Parisian hotel, Le Meurice. Further celebrations took place on April 20, 2013, when proudly celebrating the centenary, exactly 100 years to the day from when the hotel first officially opened. Following a major restoration and extension by architect Jean-Jacques Ory, known for designing the Paris headquarters of LVMH, we reopened on August 31, 2014.