Before the pink banquettes and Bibie’s grand chandeliers, this space was filled with machines and pipes. Le Jardin de Verre by Locke has found its home on Rue Lacépède, in a curious slice of Paris: an 18th-century private mansion joined with a former industrial hall, which once served as a distillery and later, a public works warehouse.
Rue Lacépède, 5th arrondissement. The building lived many lives before ever dreaming of becoming a hotel. Part of it dates back to the 18th century, while the rear of the property grew around a vast industrial hall, used at various times as a distillery, then as a warehouse for a public works and sanitation company.
In other words, long before the cocktails and plates of Bibie, the spectacular glass roof sheltered pipes and heavy machinery. When Locke chose this address for its Paris debut, design studio Fettle chose to work with these layered histories rather than erase them. Stone walls, concrete columns, and industrial ironwork remain exposed, now softened by terracotta and rose tones, lush greenery, and intentionally oversized light fixtures.
The result features 145 rooms and apartments, some complete with kitchens—true to the Locke philosophy, bridging the gap between a hotel and an apartment where one could truly live for a few days—alongside two courtyards, coworking spaces, and wellness areas.
Yet the most beautiful rebirth lies beneath the glass canopy: Bibie, a restaurant and bar envisioned as the vibrant heart of the house, now occupies the former industrial hall.
