Opened a year ago, the Sezz is still out there as definitively the most avant-garde hotel in Paris. It’s not just the extraordinary décor of slate-lined rooms with vibrant shag-pile rugs, bed in the centre of the room and state-of-the-art bathrooms that are either in the room or behind glass; the whole approach to serving guests has been radically rethought. On arrival you are shown to the Champagne bar where you sit in works of art posing as furniture. A walkie-talkie-equipped android appears in Matrix gear and proceeds to log your personal preferences into a PDA which will later be used to pre-empt your desires and needs. You can call them any time of the day or night when a sushi craving or some such whim descends. The downstairs salons incorporate a private screening room and there is a gym and steam room. All this makes it rather incongruous that it’s located in bourgeois Passy; however, the fact that this is the road where Last Tango in Paris was filmed may add a frisson as you fondle each other’s tootsies in the yin and yang formation bath tubs in room 72.