A 56-room 5-star inside an 18th-century hôtel particulier at 4 rue d'Anjou, the first European Delano under Accor's lifestyle umbrella, opened 2022 with Katara Hospitality, between Place de la Concorde and Place de la Madeleine.
"Ian Schrager's 2023 Paris debut, Delano's first European hotel, the 18th-century private mansion off Place de la Madeleine, the contemporary Paris alternative."
Why this rank, Maison Delano Paris opened in November 2023 at 4 Rue d'Anjou, Ian Schrager's first European Delano property, in partnership with Accor's Ennismore platform. The building is the 18th-century Hôtel de Brancas mansion, restored by architect Lazaro Rosa-Violan. The Rue d'Anjou address sits one block from Place de la Madeleine and three blocks from Place Vendôme, in the working business and luxury-retail district. 56 rooms and suites across the heritage building. Maison Delano Restaurant under chef Dani García runs the dining program with a contemporary Mediterranean focus. The Bar Maison operates as the cocktail room. The Spa is small (two treatment rooms) and operated through partnership; no swimming pool. The Penthouse Suite at the top of the building has private rooftop space with a view across the Madeleine. The contemporary design language is the working alternative to the Palace-tier heritage hotels, Maison Delano competes on fresh product rather than historic provenance. Best for design-led stays, Paris repeat visitors, and stays where 8th-arrondissement proximity matters.
Best room: Penthouse Suite, top-floor with private rooftop terrace.
"The Delano arrives in Paris like the Delano arrives anywhere else, a fluent rebrand of an 18th-century hôtel particulier into the white-and-mirrored Schrager grammar, with a Dani García restaurant downstairs and the Concorde three minutes from the door."
Maison Delano Paris is the first European outpost of Accor's repositioned Delano brand, the lifestyle-luxury label originally established by Ian Schrager in Miami in 1995, since acquired by Accor and reimagined as an international portfolio. The Paris property occupies an 18th-century hôtel particulier at 4 rue d'Anjou, between Place de la Concorde and Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement. The building had housed the Buddha-Bar Hotel from June 2013 until its closure on 12 March 2020, collateral damage of the early-pandemic shutdown, and was then comprehensively reimagined under a partnership between Katara Hospitality (the Qatari sovereign hospitality fund that owns the property) and Accor (the operator), opening as Maison Delano Paris in spring 2022.
The interior brief was given to Lázaro Rosa-Violán, the Catalan designer behind Soho House Barcelona and Hotel Sahrai Fez, who calibrated the original 18th-century envelope (preserved mouldings, original parquet, the Belle Époque staircase) against the contemporary white-and-mirrored Delano signature register. The 56 rooms and suites, across six floors and five categories, feature ivory-and-soft-grey colour palettes, leather-bound writing desks, custom Alessandro Mendini-inspired millwork, and bathrooms in white marble with separate walk-in showers. The Maison Delano Suite is the property's signature unit, a 110-square-metre top-floor space with a private terrace looking toward Madeleine and the dome of Saint-Augustin in the distance.
Restaurant Lutèce, under Andalusian three-Michelin-starred chef Dani García, handles the property's gastronomic programme as a more accessible all-day brasserie register than García's flagship venues in Marbella and Madrid; the menu draws from the Roman, French, and Andalusian traditions in roughly equal measure. The Bar Les Bains operates in the 18th-century cellar with a serious cocktail programme; the Garden Bar handles aperitifs in the courtyard during warmer months. The wellness floor includes an indoor 12-metre swimming pool, rare in central Paris boutique hotels, alongside a sauna, hammam, fitness room, and three treatment rooms running a Sothys Paris and Codage spa programme. The pool is the property's quiet differentiator: most 8th-arr boutiques cannot match it.
The position is decisive. Place de la Concorde is three minutes on foot, the Tuileries open from there to the Louvre, and Place de la Madeleine is two; the Crillon and Le Bristol are five and seven minutes respectively. The Champs-Élysées is six minutes via the Concorde; the Palais de l'Élysée is two; the Palais Garnier is eleven by foot. The hotel sits on the unmarked diagonal connecting four of the most photographed Paris squares without being on any of them, which produces the quieter residential register the Delano's design programme was calibrated against. The neighbourhood concentration of high-end shopping (Faubourg Saint-Honoré starts five minutes north) is the second proposition; the third is the Dani García restaurant, which has rapidly become one of the more booked tables in the 8th arrondissement.
For a contemporary-luxury anniversary in the 8th, Place de la Concorde at sunset, the Madeleine for the morning bouquet, the Faubourg Saint-Honoré for the afternoon, the Maison Delano is the most architecturally interesting boutique five-star in the area. The Maison Delano Suite at the milestone tier; a Junior Suite for the calibrated weekend; dinner at Lutèce; the Bar Les Bains in the 18th-century cellar afterwards.
Honeymoon Maison Delano works for the couple whose Paris register is more contemporary-design than historic-palace. The Maison Delano Suite with private terrace for the milestone version; a Deluxe Suite for the calibrated weekend; the indoor pool open until 10pm; dinner at Lutèce on the Dani García-curated tasting menu; the courtyard Garden Bar in the warmer months.
The hotel's lifestyle-luxury positioning calibrates well to a Paris bachelor or bachelorette weekend at the high end, Bar Les Bains in the cellar handles the late-night cocktail register; the courtyard Garden Bar handles aperitifs; the Madeleine and Faubourg Saint-Honoré shopping circuit handles the day. Connecting Junior Suites take groups of four to six without breaking the design register.
4 rue d'Anjou
75008 Paris
France
Métro Madeleine (lines 8/12/14) 2 minutes; Concorde (lines 1/8/12) 3 minutes; Place de la Concorde 3 minutes; Faubourg Saint-Honoré 5 minutes
56 rooms (incl. 7 suites)
Classic Rooms from €620/night
Deluxe Rooms from €820/night
Junior Suites from €1,400/night
Maison Delano Suite from €4,200/night
Check-in: 2:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened 2022 (Accor / Katara Hospitality)
18th-century hôtel particulier
Restaurant Lutèce by Dani García
Bar Les Bains (18th-century cellar)
Garden Bar courtyard
Indoor 12-metre swimming pool
Sothys / Codage spa programme
Lázaro Rosa-Violán interiors
Accor ALL programme
From €620/night. The Maison Delano Suite books three months ahead for autumn fashion week and Paris+ par Art Basel; the Junior Suites book four to six weeks ahead for spring weekends.
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Editorial · #20 on the Top 20 Paris Hotels 2026 list
Maison Delano Paris is the freshest Five-Star Paris hotel to make this list, the November 2023 opening of Ian Schrager's first European Delano property, in partnership with Accor's Ennismore platform. The 18th-century Hôtel de Brancas mansion at 4 Rue d'Anjou was restored by Lazaro Rosa-Violan to a contemporary specification that contrasts deliberately with the heritage Palace tier. The property opened to working operational standards from day one, uncommon for new Paris hotels in the first six months.
For Paris visitors, Maison Delano is the address for fresh contemporary product in the 8th arrondissement. The Place de la Madeleine location at one block away, three blocks from Place Vendôme, places the property in the heart of the Rive Droite luxury corridor. Maison Delano Restaurant under chef Dani García runs the dining program with contemporary Mediterranean focus. The Penthouse Suite at the top of the building has private rooftop space with view over the Madeleine. For Paris repeat visitors who have stayed at the heritage Palaces and want a contemporary alternative, the Maison Delano is the working answer for 2026.