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Camille Omerin had no business plan to become a hotelier; she even admits she had “never imagined opening a hotel.” Then came this maison de maître in Verneuil-sur-Avre: a residence nearly 140 years old, with a brick facade carrying Norman influences, reliefs inspired by Viollet-le-Duc, and a grand glass conservatory overlooking the garden. One morning, she says, opening a hotel simply became an obvious truth. She decided not just to restore the house, but to transform it into a demeure d’art, conceived as an artistic project down to its finest details.
Camille sketched some of the furniture herself and gathered a circle of artists whose work and personalities she adored. Throughout the 17 rooms and salons, artworks, frescoes, and bespoke pieces replace the usual hotel codes. Under the conservatory’s ironwork inspired by Eiffel, Ségolène Derudder unfolds murals nourished by Greek mythology. In the garden, artist Ben Arpéa takes the concept a step further, placing Un printemps en Normandie directly at the bottom of the outdoor pool—allowing guests to literally swim inside a work of art. Afterward, all that remains is to dine, have a drink under the glass roof, and sleep in one of the Palette rooms or Rêverie suites.
All this just about an hour from Paris, according to the hotel. Such is the beautiful imprudence of visiting an old Norman house when you are a romantic at heart.
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Verneuil la douce · Camille Omerin · Amoureuse en puissance · Coup de foudre immobilier · Normandy · An hour from Paris · Maison de maître · 140-year-old house
