Review: Hôtel Les Haras

Hôtel Les Haras, which opened in 2014 after a three-year renovation. The Paris-based design team of Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku (known for their work on the Abbaye Fontevraud hotel in the Loire Valley) have pulled off a brilliant visual marriage of old and new, a sensitive but confident redo of an abandoned com- plex of pink-sandstone royal stables from 1752. Behind the elegant facade, the interiors have been remade in a rich trifecta of materials—brass, oak, and tobacco-colored saddle leather from Hass, the 170-year company that supplies Hermès. The showstopper is the brasserie by chef Marc Haeberlin of the three-Michelin- star L’Auberge de l’Ill. It’s arguably the most dramatic new restaurant in France, with a sweeping curved stair- case of bent wood and glass leading to the dining room, tucked under the building’s massive oak-beamed ceiling.