Hotel de JOBO? JOBO was designed to honor Josephine Bonaparte — Napoleon’s love. Josephine Bonaparte is the soul of the delirious interior design by Bambi Sloan, running down the wallpaper, skipping across the curtains, and flying up to the ceiling!
The 24-room hotel is perfect environment for an affair, or for taking a rest after a hard day of shopping — it’s an original and surprising new discovery in the Marais neighborhood at 10 rue d’Ormesson, Paris 75004. And it’s time to book for the Olympics next year in Paris.
Our San Miguel and Nashville artist friend, Renee Bates, stayed at Hotel de JOBO recently and raved about the designer Bambi Sloan, whose other influence was the famous Madeleine Castaing, who was crazy about the Directoire style (setting the trend for Diana Vreeland’s favorite leopard print rugs).
From the archives of the French textile manufacturer Le Manach come fabrics with the delightful names: La Cocarde, Roses et Dentelles, and La Folie Monceau.
Maison Pierre Frey then reprinted these special fabric to order for the hotel, creating one layer of the romantic mood of the boudoir rooms. Across the floors, the ultimate honor: the leopard-printed rugs that Josephine Bonaparte, and then Madeleine Castaing, so adored.
Lots of pink, lots of full-blown roses, lots of romance, and hints of rock and roll.
French mood, perfect for a visitor from Nashville, queen city of country music.
