A house, since 1908.
Maison Aurelia was founded by Aurelia Lévêque in the autumn of 1908, in a townhouse her grandfather had built three decades earlier. It welcomed its first guest — a poet from Lyon — on the evening of October 12th, with a single candle burning in the window.
For more than a hundred years, the house has changed hands four times and survived two wars. We took it on in 2019 with one promise: to restore it without modernising away its soul. Three years of careful work followed — new plumbing hidden behind original mouldings, climate control whispered into oak floors, beds you can fall into without thinking.
Today the house has eighty-two rooms, two kitchens and a small team that has been with us, in many cases, since the day we opened the doors again. We're not the largest hotel in Paris. We have no plans to be.
What we believe.
Quiet, never quiet.
We believe true luxury is the absence of friction — not the abundance of gold leaf. Every detail is chosen, then chosen again.
Hospitality, not service.
Our team is small on purpose. They remember your coffee, your favourite chair, the book you left in the salon last spring.
Built to last.
Linen instead of polyester. Oak instead of veneer. Real wax candles. We build slowly because we plan to be here for another century.