Le Windsor, Art Jungle Hotel
The Windsor is part of a family hotel tradition spanning four generations… Over time, the garden has grown into a tropical world of lush vegetation, providing much-appreciated shade in summer, gently pierced by rays of sunlight. It offers a remarkable variety of plant species that give the place its sense of magic, fantasy, and serenity.
Art is our signature and can be found everywhere… The interior itself is also a kind of jungle, where art reveals itself around every corner and hidden nook of the hotel.
ROOMS:
Privilège (27 m²) Garden side with balcony, shower or bathtub
Premium (25 to 27 m²) Garden side with whirlpool bath (Jacuzzi)
Séduction (21 to 25 m²) Garden side, with shower or bathtub
Création (17 m²) Garden side with shower or (22 m²) City side with bathtub
Intimité (15 m²) City side, with shower
Travel through the rooms of Hotel Windsor across every comfort category — each of our rooms is unique, so let yourself be surprised:
- Artist Rooms or Art Rooms: site-specific creations by contemporary artists. Click on each room to discover more…
- Rooms featuring frescoes and wall paintings by Antoine Beaudoin
- Tribute Rooms: rooms inspired by a particular artwork or artist.
The Windsor Through the Eyes of Sonia Rachline
The Windsor Hotel is, in itself, an in situ work of art.
A work shaped by time, memory, and inspiration — a creation in constant evolution, as artistic as it is human. In 1989 came the first encounter: Bernard Redolfi, then owner of the hotel, entrusted Room 83 to the visual artist Joël Ducoroy. A room and its bathroom became a blank page, an invitation to a dialogue between art and the art of living. And sometimes, all it takes is one experience to create a habit, to begin a collection.
Since then, every year, French and international artists have opened a new door, gradually transforming this 19th-century Eiffel-school building into an extraordinarily vibrant museum, where the experience of travel becomes inseparable from the journey of emotion. From one room to the next, Ben, Glen Baxter, Raymond Hains, Philippe Perrin, and many others have each felt at home there — as though within themselves — artists both passing through and in residence, pushing back walls and reshaping the world.
Following in their footsteps, the visitor becomes far more than a spectator; they are invited not only to observe, but to experience. The room is anything but neutral. It tells of a past, a presence, sometimes even a question.
Since 2004, Odile Redolfi-Payen, Bernard’s niece, has taken over the hotel and carried this torch forward, multiplying permanent and temporary artistic performances more than ever before, extending them into the common areas as well. Exhibitions create surprise and leave lasting traces. Like a guestbook, each invited artist — Marcel Bataillard, Nicolas Rubinstein, Aicha Hamu, Cedric Teisseire, Kristoff Everart, Pierrick Sorin, and others — “leaves behind” a work upon which perhaps the next artist will build their own. As a result, throughout the bar, corridors, elevator, or even the façade, one discovers artworks with a strangely compelling identity: as legitimate as a beloved family heirloom, yet as vibrant as a stranger arriving unexpectedly.
And then there is the garden — a world apart, where nature works its wonders through shade, light, birdsong, and the graceful labyrinth of tropical plants and flowers. At night, Luna, Mauro Benetti’s installation, reflects in the swimming pool. By day, JonOne’s graffiti blurs the geography.
People say that the most beautiful places possess a soul. The Windsor has several — intertwining, overlapping, meeting one another — united perhaps by a shared vision of the good life: offering each guest not merely comfort, but the pleasure of becoming part of a story. And of entering into dialogue with the Other.
— Sonia Rachline, 2018
The Artist Rooms
The artist rooms open a window onto the world of art:
the use of space, the interplay of shapes and materials, humour…
Each room is a unique creation, born from the artist’s imagination and reflecting their artistic vision. Every room offers travellers a space for discovery.
List of Artist Rooms
4 Basserode, 10 Olivier Nottellet, 11 Samta Benyahia, 17 Jean-Pierre Bertrand, 20 Philippe Perrin, 22 Claude Viallat, 23 Glen Baxter, 25 Peter Fend, 31 Aicha Hamu, 32 Jeong-Hwa Choi, 35 Nicolas Rubinstein, 37 Lawrence Weiner, 38 Felice Varini, 40 Raymond Hains, 42 Robert Barry, 43 Jean Mas, 45 Lilly van der Stokker, 52 Charlemagne Palestine, 54 Henri Olivier, 55 Jean Dupuy, 57 Claudio Parmiggiani, 58 Mathieu Mercier, 59 François Morellet, 60 Gotscho, 62 Olivier Mosset, 63 Présence Panchounette, 65 Ben, 74 Noël Dolla, 77 Cécile Bart, 78 Gottfried Honegger, 79 Joël Jean Le Gac, 82 Claude Rutault, 83 Joël Ducoroy.
The Fresco Rooms
The fresco rooms are traditional and romantic.
Antoine Beaudoin drew inspiration from famous places, mythical figures, and fairy-tale scenes.
His frescoes, often evoking distant lands, extend your journey into the realm of dreams.
These fresco rooms can be found in the Privilège, Séduction, and Intimité categories.
The Tribute Rooms
These rooms pay tribute to:
- Cocteau through the work of Konstantin Sgouridis (Room 8 – Privilège)
- Coco Chanel through the work of Jean Le Gac (Room 19 – Privilège)
- the Nice artists Niki de Saint Phalle (Room 5 – Intimité) and Yves Klein (Room 30 – Intimité)
- Simone Simon during the filming of Gériko (Room 80 – Création)
