Brach Paris

Evok Collection's flagship in a 1970s former postal building near Trocadéro — Philippe Starck stripped it back to concrete and stitched in walnut, leather and modernist art into 59 rooms and suites. The signature here is the rooftop: a 4,300-square-foot edible kitchen garden with vegetable beds, deck and jacuzzi, plus a chicken coop and beehive. Two pools (one indoor, one rooftop), a 1,000-square-metre fitness and wellness space — the largest hotel gym in Paris — and Brach Restaurant for Mediterranean small plates. Between the design pedigree and the Trocadéro/Passy residential perch, it reads as the boutique counterweight to the avenue Hoche palaces.