This summer I spent a lovely hour or so at the Hôtel Des Académies Et Des Arts in Paris.

The only reason for my short visit was due to the hotel being sold out.

But loving the fact that they had hired street artist Jérôme Mesnager, giving him carte blanche to use the hotel as his canvas — I couldn’t resist stopping in. He painted one of his famous white bodies in each of the 20 rooms, throughout the main floor, and even a 50-foot mural on the exterior of the building.

Luckily for me, the hotel’s bistro serves tea from 2:30 to 6:00 pm daily, so I didn’t