It's for this designer hotel between the Champs-Elysees the Avenue Montaigne & the Avenue George in Paris that the word chic' was invented. A dramatic brightly coloured stone tunnel is a suitable segue into the lobby of a 19th-century mansion where whispers of the Second Empire are still apparent in the sweeping staircase splendid wrought-iron balconies & arched doorways. Combining calm & serenity with understated luxury each of the 26 rooms at Pershing Hall is a design-conscious romantic's dream & the spa is the cherry on this sybaritic cake."