![]() ![]() “The re-imagination of Carlton Cannes, a Regent Hotel has skilfully preserved a piece of history for generations to come, including the hotel’s beloved façade and century-old features while ushering in a novel take on modern luxury,” Tom Rowntree, vice president of global luxury and lifestyle brands for IHG Hotels & Resorts, which owns Regent Hotels & Resorts, tells Travel + Leisure. ![]() Image Credit: Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel The renovation was a chance to align the hotel’s historic past with its future. (Auer oversaw the renovation of the hotel.) “The re-imagination of a historic French hotel” Image Credit: Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel It’s all French interior designer Tristan Auer‘s deliberate nod to the hotel’s sporting heritage. ![]() I notice terra cotta lines crisscrossing the carpet and similar detailing in the bathroom. ![]() (Legend has it that the clay tennis court surface originated in Cannes decades earlier.)Īs I sweep up the grand centrepiece staircase toward my fifth-floor room, I understand why a vintage tennis racket and ball are displayed like museum pieces on the wall. Yet another chapter of the hotel’s illustrious history was written in 1926 when the property hosted what was known as the tennis “ match of the century” between France’s Suzanne Lenglen and America’s Helen Wills. These Gorgeous Overwater Bungalows In French Polynesia Have Glass Floors ![]()
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