Paris, France

La Fondation

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Style

Bold new belle monde

Setting

A rue with a view

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A modernist layer cake in Paris’ bohemian Batignolles neighbourhood, La Fondation delights on every level. From the subterranean spa and pool soars an all-stops-pulled sports club. A locally loved brasserie spills out onto the pavement; above, clean-lined rooms — courtesy of NYC design doyens Roman and Williams — gaze out over the city. And from the rooftop bar, views of the 17th arrondissement's mansard rooftops and romantic parks give way to the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur. Talk about a cherry on top...

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

58, including three suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in is at 3pm.

More details

Rates are room-only, but a choice of à la carte breakfast menus (Parisian, Continental or American) is on offer each morning for an extra charge.

Also

Three Executive Rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility, and each have a roll-in shower, grab bars and lowered features. The communal areas are all accessible, too.

Please note

The indoor pool will be closed from 23 to 26 February 2026; the restaurant will close from 20 December 2025 to 5 January 2026.

At the hotel

Sports club, courtyard garden and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Nespresso or Smeg coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Typology bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Suite Sacré Coeur’s namesake views are hard to beat. But go for any room facing Rue Legendre and your floor-to-ceiling windows will look out onto a pretty Haussmannian scene — and provide unmatched people-watching.

Poolside

In a feat that feels almost like a magic trick in Paris, La Fondation has conjured up a 26-metre heated pool in the underground spa area, atmospherically lit and flanked with loungers to zonk out on between semi-Olympic lengths.

Spa

At the hotel’s spacious subterranean spa, treatments come courtesy of two feelgood French brands — natural skincare mavens Typology and Ho Karan, who've created a signature massage designed to boost levels of the love hormone. Suitably destressed, slink over to the hammam and sauna to continue your relaxation. The full-scale sports club ensures the flip side of wellness is taken care of just as thoroughly. Alongside the large Technogym-equipped fitness area, there’s a climbing wall and four studios with a weekly schedule of over 100 classes, from boxing to barre, plus a juice bar to put you right post-workout.

Packing tips

Bring shoes you can cycle in — a rental bike is an ideal way to crisscross the 17th arrondissement, ideally with fresh boulangerie goodies in the basket.

Also

Take a break from city slicking in the Solarium, a secret garden-like suntrap that’s reserved for hotel guests only.

Pet‐friendly

Small dogs are welcome, on request and for no extra charge. See more pet-friendly hotels in Paris.

Children

All ages are welcome, and the hotel supplies towels, bathrobes, slippers and high chairs for little Smiths. The spa and fitness areas are for adults-only, and children need to be supervised at the pool.

Sustainability efforts

La Fondation uses refillable Typology bath products, made in France with an emphasis on natural ingredients. Lights automatically turn off when rooms are unoccupied, and sustainable ozonated water is used for cleaning. The restaurant team have partnered with Too Good To Go to save leftover baked goods from going to waste, and work with a local enterprise to compost kitchen waste.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Those committed to watching the world go by (or studying Parisian street style) will want a table by La Base’s street-level windows or out on the pavement terrace.

Dress Code

Edged-up Parisian elegance, like silk under vintage leather.

Hotel restaurant

Brasserie La Base is the hotel’s ground-floor restaurant where, under Chef Thomas Rossi’s watch, nourishing and nostalgic French dishes are revitalised with sophisticated modern flavours. In a neighbourhood not short of elevated bistros, dishes like onion tatin with thyme créme, beef tartare with candied egg yolk and aubergine steak au poivre have won La Base a fan club of local regulars (who all know to save room for the fruit Charlotte). 

A second restaurant is set to open in September 2025 on La Fondation’s eighth floor, with a seasonal fine-dining menu and showstopping city views. It will serve dinner from 7.30pm to 11pm, Tuesday to Saturday.

Hotel bar

Landmark views and a moreish wine list draw le dix-septième’s in-the-loop denizens to La Fondation’s Rooftop cocktail bar. Bring your amour up here at sundown, when Paris unfurls like a twinkling carpet towards Sacré-Coeur and the Eiffel Tower. You'll find cocktails, such as raspberry Hugo spritzes, at Brasserie La Base.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am to 10.30am; until 11am, weekends. Lunch is served at La Base from noon to 2.30pm, dinner from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. The Rooftop is open from 5pm to midnight.

Room service

A separate room service menu is available from 10.30am to 11.30pm.

Location

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Address
La Fondation
40 Rue Legendre
Paris
75017
France

La Fondation is in Batignolles, a village-like neighbourhood in the 17th arrondissement in north-west Paris.

Planes

The hotel is under an hour’s drive from both Paris Orly Airport and Charles de Gaulle Airport. Staff can arrange transfers on request (from €60 for Orly; from €80 for Charles de Gaulle).

Trains

If you’re coasting into Paris on the Eurostar, you’ll have around a half-hour Métro ride from Gare du Nord to La Fondation. Pont Cardinet, a 10-minute walk away, is the nearest Métro station to the hotel. It’s on Line 14 and connects you with Paris Orly Airport, Châtelet and Gare de Lyon. For Lines 2 and 3, it’s a similarly short walk to Villiers.

Automobiles

The hotel doesn't have a private carpark, but there’s public parking nearby. Valet parking is available from 10am to 9pm (free for street parking, and €50 a night for a spot in the nearby carpark).

Worth getting out of bed for

A no-set-plans stroll is the best way to get acquainted with Batignolles’ pretty boulevards and lime tree-shaded squares. Stick to La Fondation’s Rue Legendre for cult-label clothes shopping, then fan out to the surrounding streets for indie boutiques. Cité de Fleurs is a storybook pedestrianised street, home to a patchwork of architectural styles and bloom-filled courtyards. Take a breather in Square des Batignolles, tracing the stream through the leafy gardens to the duck pond. Parc Monceau has a fairytale quality with follies and statues hidden amid its romantically landscaped acres. Nearby, Musée Cernuschi is worth stopping by for its rich collection of Asian art, housed in a 19th-century mansion. Set in an equally grand residence, Musée Jacquemart André has an impressive European art collection, but the real pull is the immersion in Belle Époque opulence.  

Batignolles was once a rural village, and if you’re looking to re-root yourself in the neighbourhood’s heritage, head to the covered market, open every day except Saturday and still as lively and loaded with enticing local food as it was 200 years ago. There’s also an organic farmers’ market, which lures tote bag-carriers from across Paris to Boulevard des Batignolles every Saturday.

Local restaurants

L’Endroit is an updated take on a classic Parisian bistro, with friendly service and a festoon-lit terrace on Place du Dr Félix Lobligeois, this neighbourhood’s laidback heart. At Anona, chef Thibaut Spiwack’s produce-forward menus prove that a sustainable approach isn’t just possible with fine dining, it actually enhances it. For a timeout from meat-heavy Gallic cuisine, try Le Potager de Charlotte, a family-run spot where the entirely plant-based menu is spun from farmers market produce.

Local cafés

Take your artisanal latte or ginger-laced carrot juice out on the pavement terrace at Dose, a specialty coffee house facing the Square des Batignolles.

Local bars

Rue des Dames is where you want to be for inviting bistros and wine bars open till late. An evening at Les Caves Populaires is akin to an induction into Batignolles life. Regulars squeeze into this down-home wine bar to play cards; you’ll want to snag yourself a spot for unfussy charcuterie and a sense of being welcomed into the fold. It's no accident Les P’tits Potes feels like hanging out at a particularly cool pal's place — ‘a wine bar of friends’ is the ethos behind this neighbourhood favourite. It's a cosy spot with comforting sharing plates, a tailored cocktail menu and a cellar sure to get the bonhomie flowing.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this bold hotel in Batignolles and unpacked their artisanal bonbons and farmers’ market bounty, a full account of their landmark-gazing break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside La Fondation in Paris… 

Batignolles might be a residential neighbourhood, but there’s a bounce in its Haussmannian step — cool bars, curated friperies and fun design stores weave between the mansions, markets and meandering gardens. La Fondation takes that pep and plugs in the amp, with a glass-grid facade that cuts a striking figure between its dainty limestone neighbours. The spa and pool, steamy with French-made botanicals, are luxuriously large for Paris; and there’s a sports club that knocks the socks off a standard hotel gym (hello, climbing wall).

Not every mould’s been broken, though. Rooms have an air of modernist Manhattan, but their zinc-rooftop views, fine French craftsmanship and Le Corbusier-esque pieces root them firmly in Parisian soil. And the brasserie may be modern, but it perfectly captures Batignolles’ village-like charm. Follow the district’s discerning locals to the rooftop bar for your final surprise — an eyeful of Eiffel in one direction, Sacré-Coeur in the other, and the City of Lights stretching out between.

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