Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square

Brand Paris infiltrates America's executive block party with stealth, impeccable taste, and funky striped carpets. Fancy man Pierre-Yves Rochon blends gold, teal, and red without flinching, throws in serene white goose-down duvets, angled black modern things. No absinthe in the minibar, but you'd think it. Jet-lagged men d'affaires slumber on cloud-like mattresses. Monsieur Sarkozy keeps coming back for more. If these walls could talk, they'd murmur incomprehensible French with their eyes half shut.