The filmmaker famous for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive has lent his name to a signautre suite at the Hotel Lutetia, an Art Deco Left Bank establishment that has given haven to the likes of Josephine Baker, the sculptor Arman and Charles de Gaulle on his wedding night.

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The queen, on a velvet chair, perched among the rags for a grim, blue-chinned portrait.

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She draped a bed in midnight blue velvet and put it in the living room (because a bed is more relaxing than a sofa, of course), tacked ikat fabrics over embroidered benches, and served couscous dinners wearing a djellaba.

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The new store's powder blue and gold walls and velvet-upholstered chairs are inspired, she explained, by Marie Antoinette's theater in the Petit Trianon at Versailles.

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To give the formal areas of the house a stately feel, he installed black double doors, stained black walnut flooring, and blue velvet curtains.

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