Found Interior Classic Hotel, France Design

We stopped at this hotel overnight en-route through France on our way home. I'm not sure where it was - somewhere in the middle. We rarely book hotels in advance (unless we are near a great one previously discovered) as it's fun to see where you end up.
This was in a rather nondescript village and the hotel wasn't particularly promising from the outside but when we walked in I was completely taken aback by the crazy interior.


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Such a melange of colour, pattern, furniture and objets it's hard to take it all in!

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I love how the French go for these massive murals, though they are increasingly hard to find as they really went out of fashion in the 80s. In a way murals take the place of the large scale tapestries traditional in French chateaux, back in 'l'epoque'. I've posted another one French 1970s Hotel Mural

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Big effort with the lighting effects.

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It's hard to work out what is real and what is picture and the difference in scale between the soup tureen and the water mill is bizarre.

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You just don't know where to let your eye come to rest...............

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I really loved the richness of the interior - I wish people thought of designing public spaces like this more often.