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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 manor house in Verneuil-sur-Avre: a residence of nearly 140 years, its brick facade carrying Norman influences, reliefs inspired by Viollet-le-Duc, and a grand glasshouse 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 make it 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 she loves as much as their personalities. Across the 17 rooms and salons, artworks, frescoes, and custom-made pieces replace the usual codes of the hotel industry. Beneath the glass canopy with its Eiffel-inspired ironwork, Ségolène Derudder unfolds murals nourished by Greek mythology; in the garden, artist Ben Arpéa takes the idea a step further, installing Un printemps en Normandie directly at the bottom of the outdoor pool—allowing guests to literally swim inside a work of art. All that remains is to dine, enjoy a drink under the glass roof, and sleep in one of the Palette rooms or Rêverie suites.
All this about an hour from Paris, according to the hotel. Such is the beautiful imprudence of visiting an old Norman house when one is already poised to fall in love.
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