Upon first impression, Fouquet’s New York shares little in common with its Parisian counterpart. The original sits on a bustling corner on the Champs-Élysées, the world’s most famous shopping boulevard, while its stateside iteration can be found on a quiet, residential block in historic Tribeca. In Paris, the Barrière hotel is impossible to miss, with a swirling neon sign sprawled across a Beaux Arts facade that glows red well into the right. In New York, Fouquet’s is tucked away in a stately yet low-rise brick building, with only a small exterior plaque displaying its name.
Yet inside, the two ideals of Tribeca cool and Parisian flair effortlessly and harmoniously combine, due to a dynamic interior by Martin Brudnizki and MBDS Studio.
Brudnizki decided to take interior cues from the Art Deco movement—a design period that distinctly influenced the architecture, interiors, and well, identity of both cities. (New York’s Waldorf Astoria, for example, was designed in the style, as was Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.)
Indeed, much of the hotel is swathed in lavender pastels—which Brudnizki says he always views as “quite French”—as well as Art Deco’s signature geometric motifs, creating an chic, candy-land atmosphere that feels timeless rather than contrived. Fabrics include sumptuous velvets, while chandeliers are gilded and geometrical, a nod to Tribeca’s industrial origins. Some walls are even covered in a textured silk. “We needed to marry the ideas of eclectic New York and upscale Paris,” he says.
The blending of each city’s aesthetic identities goes far beyond mere subtleties: Some of the guest rooms are adorned in a custom Tribeca toile de jouy by Schumacher, a playful interpretation of the classic French wallpaper print. Instead of the traditional hunting or landscape scenes, there are joyful motifs of neighborhood restaurant The Odeon, a street pretzel cart, and pigeons flying with a baguette in their beaks. “It knits this whole story together,” says Brudnizki.
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