Maison Métier: A Storybook of Southern Sophistication in New Orleans
Silk tassels, spirited pours, antique soul
A House With a Past — Reimagined
Housed within New Orleans’ former Beaux Arts City Hall Annex, Maison Métier feels like stepping into an alternate timeline of New Orleans—one where Southern hospitality is whispered rather than shouted, where the details matter more than the display. This is elegance lived, not performed. Grand staircase banisters greet you like characters in a literary epic, silk tassel keys swing like amulets, and linens are hand-embroidered, because here, nothing soulless makes the cut.
Where Old New Orleans Meets New Design Intelligence
The interiors are a quietly hypnotic mix: New Orleans-sourced antiques side-by-side with custom contemporary pieces. Every surface, pattern, and vignette has intention. Bespoke wallpapers frame Christopher Farr x Shamshiri rugs, while paintings and sculpture by local artists point the narrative forward: this is a new NOLA aesthetic—more cerebral, more collected, more curated. This is a hotel you don’t “stay in,” you decode.
Bar New Orleanians: Where the Night Actually Begins
At the center of the experience is Bar New Orleanians, a candlelit world unto itself. Operated by French tastemakers Quixotic Projects, the bar is a cross-continental love letter—a mashup of European apéritif sensibility and Caribbean heat. Cocktails are not decoration, they are craft: deeply layered, highly intentional, and dangerously drinkable. The French-inflected small plates? The kind that guarantee you cancel other plans. This is where locals would want to drink—if they only could.
A Different Way to Do New Orleans
Maison Métier is not the boisterous French Quarter cliché. It’s the sophisticated parallel universe you always hoped New Orleans had. The afterglow that happens when history, design, and spirit align. It’s quiet enough to read, decadent enough to feel bad about nothing, and generous enough to seduce you into one more round.
DNA Hotels Verdict
Maison Métier is New Orleans for the aesthetes, the romantics, the detail-collectors. An elegant home for the design-literate traveler who wants the Big Easy—without the obviousness. Here, beauty is not loud. It’s layered. And it lingers.
