Arcachon, La Co(o)rniche*****

The Co(O)rniche is a place with extraordinary details. Figurehead of the Pilat-Plage district lookout from Arcachon, backed by the highest dune in Europe, the Dune du Pilat, it is suspended between sky and sea, secured between sand and pine forest.
It is a mythical place that evokes the golden age and the invention of the Silver Coast. A former hunting lodge of the 1930s in the heart of a preserved site, where did the aristocracy and gentry attracted by the quality of the air, the magic of the site and the popularity of sea bathing.
The cornice is related to the vision of an exceptional entrepreneur Louis Gaume and the great designer Philippe Stark. New guardian of the place, William Téchoueyres partnered with the Gaume family to give a new breath La Corniche. With the complicity of Philippe Starck, it awakens the sleeping beauty. Thus was born La Co(O)rniche which provides additional exclamation in this stunning view.
"A place at the peak, the most beautiful, the most poetic, the most surreal, the most powerful of nature". That in a nutshell Philippe Starck's breathtaking spectacle from the La Co(o)rniche.
The hotel, its rooms, its restaurant and its terrace are the forefront of this inland sea, "natural theater with gigantic dimensions, which are constantly plays telluric forces." You can admire the variable geometry of the Banc d'Arguin, a huge outcropping of sand by hours and read in the language of the most beautiful pages reality of "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo, whose evocations moon, attraction, pernicious and beneficial currents, inspired the creation of carpets, Philippe Starck designed for hotel rooms.
La Co(o)rniche, Philippe Starck fate of its usual luxury codes. It applies in the development alchemy of a place he described as unique in the world by the encounter of a landscape and nature beyond the grandiose. The entrance is through an aromatic path. Indeed, first appears a great house classic neo-Basque, features regional style imposed by Louis Gaume. You enter the property by a Colee brick steps, culminating in a surprising tile consisting of loose cement tiles that form as a spooky Persian carpet. Right, squares gardens with aromatic herbs distinguished by small labels to guide the restaurant and of course will be used by the heads of the premises. Opposite the doors open on the hotel reception.
The hotel entrance opens onto the lobby kept intact. Its dark wood, frescoes and antique furniture, we speak friendly ghosts of time past, and gallant gentlemen, the first movie stars, artists, writers and the anonymous crowd, all went here for the parenthesis of a rare moment.
The hotel, restaurant, terrace and bar are reinventing themselves in an essential and familiar luxury. As a place of living village, La Co(o)rniche is dedicated to all the lovers of the basin. Between privacy and discretion, here they are invited to a perpetual party where live moments to the best of their desires.