Le Bar du Plaza Athénée, Paris

Designed by noted stylist Patrick Jouin, the Plaza Athénée's new-look bar juxtaposes the new with the old. It features a dramatic sculpted and sandblasted translucent glass surface, backlit to a cornflower blue and accessorized with a dozen elongated Louis XV-style metal stools with leather seats. Superjacent small Murano glass lights shine a warm glow on 17th-century paintings by artists such as Claude Gelée, which decorate the walls. Libations comes courtesy of Thierry Hernandez, whose signature is actually a blue non-alcoholic cocktail that uses flower extract and comes topped with oxygen-enriched water.

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