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DoubleTree by Hilton Zhengzhou East FF&E

Project Overview

The DoubleTree by Hilton Zhengzhou East opens on 31 July 2025 as one of the most strategically positioned high-end business hotels in central China — occupying a prime address on Shunyi Street, Golden Water District, directly adjacent to the east plaza of Zhengzhou East High-Speed Rail Station, the nation’s largest high-speed rail hub. Zhobai Hotel Furniture was engaged as the exclusive FF&E partner for this 280-room property, supplying and installing the complete furniture programme across all guest-facing spaces: lobby, guestrooms, dining venues, meeting and banquet facilities, and the third-floor recreation level. The project represents one of our most elaborate engagements with a Hilton-brand opening in Central China, and the first time Zhobai has furnished a property designed by PLD — the Hong Kong practice of Liu Bo, whose Song Dynasty-inspired new Chinese aesthetic gave this project its singular design character.

The Song Dynasty (宋式) light-luxury concept that defines the DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is not a decorative choice but a philosophical one. Song-period Chinese aesthetics — restraint, natural material honesty, ink-wash tonal range, and the subordination of ornament to proportion — translate with remarkable precision into the idiom of contemporary luxury hospitality. For Zhobai’s design and production team, working to this brief meant sourcing materials that carry genuine cultural weight: stone finishes that reference celadon glaze, timber species with the warm grey undertones of aged scholar’s wood, and textile weaves drawn from Song silk traditions. Every furniture piece we produced for this hotel is legible within that framework without being literal or costume-like — contemporary in execution, Chinese in soul.

Lobby and Arrival Spaces

The lobby of DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is among the most architecturally considered arrival environments Zhobai has furnished in recent years. The design uses a monumental feature wall — a digital scenic installation depicting ink-wash landscapes of the Yellow River and Song-era architectural motifs — as the focal point that orientates every furniture arrangement in the public ground floor. Zhobai’s lobby FF&E programme was developed in direct response to this wall, with furniture pieces positioned as frames for the installation rather than autonomous objects competing with it.

The lobby’s central lounge is oriented toward the feature scenic wall; Zhobai positioned a pair of bespoke curved sofas in a warm celadon-toned velvet as the primary seating anchor, their arched backs referencing the rounded window forms of Song-era architecture.

The reception counter — a Zhobai millwork fabrication in a warm grey stone-effect laminate with brushed bronze hardware — extends over six metres to accommodate four simultaneous check-in positions for the high-volume transit guests arriving from Zhengzhou East Station.

The lobby waiting lounge uses Zhobai’s modular sofa system in a warm sand-and-slate palette, with occasional tables in a honed grey marble — a material that carries the celadon-tone reference throughout the public floor programme.

The corner sofa lounge zone provides an intimate enclosure within the open lobby — Zhobai’s L-configuration sofa modules in a warm terracotta bouclé create a visual separation from the main circulation without requiring physical partitioning.

The lobby corridor connecting the arrival zone to the lift lobby: Zhobai specified a continuous wall-mounted console run in smoked oak, with coordinated artwork lighting brackets and floor-level plinth units that maintain the Song-era tonal language through the transition space.

The secondary entrance corridor leading from the hotel’s street-level access point; Zhobai supplied a bespoke welcome console table in dark walnut with a honed stone surface — positioned as the first furniture encounter for guests entering via this route.

The business manager’s office adjacent to the lobby: Zhobai supplied the desk unit, executive chair, and visitor seating in the same warm material palette as the public lobby, ensuring visual continuity between the guest-facing and staff-facing spaces at ground level.

The reception counter at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East is the lobby’s single most important FF&E piece by both functional and symbolic measure. Located directly opposite the hotel’s main entrance — facing the axis from Zhengzhou East Station’s east plaza — the counter is the first furniture element every arriving guest encounters. Zhobai designed it as a low, horizon-line piece: 900 mm in height rather than the 1,050 mm conventional in Chinese hotel lobbies, a deliberate decision to maintain visual connectivity between the guest standing at check-in and the scenic feature wall beyond. The counter surface in honed white marble provides the brightness required by Hilton’s brand lighting standards, while the body cladding in a warm grey stone-effect laminate with horizontal grain — referencing the striated sediment layers of the Yellow River karst — grounds the counter in its Central China context.

Guestrooms: 280 Keys Across Five Room Categories

The 280 guestrooms and suites at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East occupy floors three through seventeen, with all rooms benefiting from floor-to-ceiling glazing and views across either the Zhengzhou cityscape or the Qili River (七里河) water corridor that runs adjacent to the property. Hilton’s DoubleTree brand carries specific FF&E standards — the Sweet Dreams by DoubleTree bed specification, in particular, is non-negotiable — and Zhobai’s project team worked directly with Hilton’s Asia-Pacific architecture and construction team to obtain brand approval for all custom pieces before fabrication commenced. The Song-era aesthetic was introduced through material and proportional decisions that comply with brand standards while distinctly exceeding their minimum requirements.

The standard twin room’s entry hall: Zhobai’s mirrored wardrobe door system with recessed push-to-open handles maximises the perceived width of the entry zone, while the warm oak-toned laminate on the wardrobe doors introduces the room’s material identity at first glance.

The Deluxe King Cityview guestroom: Zhobai’s platform bed base in a warm walnut tone, bespoke headboard in a structured ivory linen, and matching bedside table pair establish the room’s furniture language — restrained, contemporary, and unmistakably rooted in Song-era proportional discipline.

The Deluxe Twin configuration uses the same headboard panel system as the king room, adapted to two single-bed positions; Zhobai’s central luggage bench serves as both a physical divider between the two sleeping zones and a practical surface for guest use.

The Qili River view King room features an in-room soaking tub positioned to face the floor-to-ceiling riverside window — Zhobai supplied the teak bath bridge, stone-top side table, and full accessory programme in a coordinated brushed bronze finish.

A high-floor King room at night, with Zhengzhou’s east district skyline as backdrop: Zhobai’s motorised blackout curtain system — paired with a sheer voile inner layer — allows guests to modulate the city light view without leaving the bed.

The headboard is the room’s defining furniture piece, and Zhobai invested considerable design effort in developing a form that works across all room categories while adapting to each tier’s proportional requirements. The standard headboard is an arched panel in a structured ivory linen, 1,300 mm tall — the arch referencing the rounded windows of Song-era pavilion architecture that run as a visual motif through PLD’s design. In executive-floor rooms, the headboard height increases to 1,500 mm and the fabric transitions to a more textured silk-mix weave, creating a perceptible quality distinction without departing from the shared design language. Suite headboards are fully upholstered panels spanning the full wall width behind the bed — a configuration that transforms the bed wall into an architectural statement rather than a piece of furniture.

The Qili River view rooms required a specific furniture adaptation: with the river prospect as the room’s primary asset, Zhobai specified lower-profile occasional seating — a 420-mm seat-height lounge chair rather than the standard 450-mm model — positioned at the window to maintain unobstructed sightlines from the bed to the glass. In rooms with the in-room soaking tub, the tub is positioned on a low stone plinth aligned with the window axis, and Zhobai’s teak bath bridge and bronze accessory programme were specified to sit visually within the room’s palette rather than appearing as imported bathroom catalogue items.

Dining: Two Signature Restaurants and the Lobby Lounge

Qu — All-Day Dining Restaurant

The ground-floor Qu Restaurant is DoubleTree Zhengzhou East’s primary dining venue — a full-service all-day space that opens at 6:30 AM for the mixed Chinese-and-Western breakfast buffet, transitions to à la carte service through the day, and hosts a seafood buffet dinner programme that has already established itself as a leisure dining destination in the Zhengzhou East district. With floor-to-ceiling windows on the garden-facing elevation, the restaurant’s design prioritises the connection between the interior dining environment and the outdoor landscape — a priority that shaped Zhobai’s furniture specification from the outset.

The window dining zone in the Qu Restaurant: Zhobai specified two-top and four-top tables in a warm ash veneer positioned to maximise window-facing seats, paired with upholstered dining chairs in a sage-green fabric that echoes the garden planting beyond the glass.

The floor-to-ceiling window dining wall: Zhobai’s banquette seating system runs the full length of the glazing, upholstered in a warm ivory with decorative stitching that references Song-era silk embroidery patterns — a detail visible only on close inspection, but one that rewards attentive guests.

The breakfast buffet counter: Zhobai fabricated the entire buffet station structure — a 5.6-metre marble-topped counter with integrated hot-food wells, cereal and bread display zones, and concealed lower storage — in a single production run for seamless on-site installation.

The cold dish and salad buffet bar: a separate Zhobai-fabricated station in a darker smoked oak finish, with refrigerated display wells and a raised canopy structure that creates visual separation from the adjacent hot-food counter while maintaining the overall buffet layout’s coherence.

The restaurant’s private dining booth zone uses Zhobai’s high-back banquette system — upholstered back panels in a warm terracotta provide acoustic separation between adjacent booths, creating semi-private dining enclosures without structural partition walls.

Ju — Chinese Restaurant

The Ju Chinese Restaurant entrance lobby on the second floor: Zhobai supplied the reception console, a pair of carved stone garden stools, and the feature lantern display cabinet that frames the transition from corridor to dining venue.

One of Ju Restaurant’s ten private dining rooms: Zhobai supplied the round dining table in a dark lacquer finish, throne-style dining chairs in a burgundy silk-blend velvet, and the full sideboard and service console programme — all coordinated to Cantonese banquet dining protocol requirements.

The second-floor Ju Restaurant serves Cantonese and Henan local cuisine across ten private dining rooms — a layout that caters specifically to the corporate entertainment and banquet clientele that the hotel’s Zhengzhou East Station adjacency generates in volume. Zhobai’s private dining room furniture brief required the gravitas appropriate for high-level business banquets while avoiding the dated aesthetic common in older Chinese restaurant environments. We specified a dark rosewood-effect lacquer for all dining table surfaces — formal without being heavy — and paired the tables with a throne-style chair in a burgundy silk-blend velvet whose seat height was precisely calibrated to the 740-mm table surface height, eliminating the ergonomic mismatch that persists in many Chinese banquet settings where chairs and tables are sourced independently. The ten-room suite was furnished from a single production batch, ensuring absolute consistency in finish and dimension across all dining configurations.

Meetings and Events: 1,000 Square Metres of Convention Infrastructure

The 1,000-square-metre meeting and banquet floor at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East centres on a 527-square-metre pillar-free grand ballroom — a technically demanding space specification that required Zhobai’s banquet furniture to perform at the density and reconfiguration speed expected of a property whose primary commercial adjacency is a high-speed rail hub generating a constant stream of corporate group bookings.

The 527 m² grand ballroom configured in theater style: Zhobai’s padded stacking chairs with aisle-aligned row brackets accommodate the high-density seating required for the ballroom’s 350-person conference configuration, while the gold-tone frame maintains visual elegance in formal banquet settings.

The ballroom in a block-seating classroom configuration: Zhobai’s modular classroom table system uses interlocking row connectors that allow hotel staff to transition between classroom, theater, and banquet layouts in under two hours — essential for back-to-back event programming.

The executive boardroom features a Zhobai bespoke conference table in book-matched walnut veneer — 5,400 mm long, with flush-mounted power and data modules at each of the twelve seating positions.

One of the property’s six small meeting rooms: Zhobai’s modular conference table system — individual modules with locking connectors — is configured here in a compact 10-person boardroom layout using a cobalt blue table drape, the hotel’s secondary brand colour.

Zhobai supplied 400 gold-tone banquet chairs for the DoubleTree Zhengzhou East event floor — all from our commercial hotel collection, with a padded seat and sash-ready back, stackable to twelve per trolley. The ballroom’s 4.5-metre ceiling height and natural daylight from clerestory windows above the perimeter walls made this one of the more pleasant banquet environments Zhobai has furnished in Central China, and we specified chair dimensions — seat width 490 mm — slightly more generous than our standard model in recognition of the ballroom’s relatively relaxed density capacity of 30 tables. The executive boardroom table is a signature piece: a single 5,400-mm surface in book-matched walnut veneer with a hairline-fine brass inlay border at the edge, and twelve flush-mounted power-and-data modules positioned at each chair station — fabricated in Zhobai’s millwork facility and delivered to site pre-finished for a one-day installation.

Recreation and Wellness

The third-floor fitness centre benefits from a full glass wall overlooking the hotel’s lower-level garden — Zhobai supplied the gym’s peripheral furniture: equipment storage racks, towel service station, and the stretch mat storage unit adjacent to the yoga zone.

The fitness centre’s full equipment zone: alongside the cardio and strength machines supplied by the hotel’s fitness equipment contractor, Zhobai delivered the gym’s entrance console, member card display unit, and the water station millwork — coordinating finish and material with the overall third-floor recreation level design.

The third-floor recreation level at DoubleTree Zhengzhou East houses the 24-hour fitness centre, yoga studio, and indoor temperature-controlled swimming pool — all complimentary for hotel guests. The gym’s glass wall elevation overlooking the hotel garden was a key architectural feature that Zhobai’s furniture programme was designed to celebrate rather than obstruct: all equipment-adjacent furniture and storage units are positioned against the internal walls, keeping the glazed elevation free of visual interruption. Poolside furniture — weather-tolerant loungers in powder-coated aluminium with quick-dry mesh slings — was specified from Zhobai’s indoor pool collection, with a bronze finish selected to carry the brand’s brushed-bronze hardware language into the recreation environment.

Delivery and the Zhobai Commitment

The DoubleTree Zhengzhou East project marks a significant milestone in Zhobai’s portfolio: a first-tier Hilton brand opening at one of China’s highest-profile transport infrastructure nodes, designed by one of Asia’s most respected hospitality interior practices, and furnished end-to-end by Zhobai’s integrated FF&E team. The Song Dynasty aesthetic that PLD brought to this project demanded a level of material and proportional discipline that tests the limits of conventional hotel furniture manufacturing — finishes that cannot be approximated by standard catalogue products, proportions that require custom tooling, and textile choices that depend on specialist weaving sources not typically engaged for hospitality work.

Zhobai’s ability to meet that brief reflects the investment the company has made over fifteen years in building a production capability that sits above the mass market while remaining commercially viable for large-scale hotel openings. Every piece in this 280-room programme was reviewed against PLD’s design documentation at the sample stage, approved by Hilton’s architecture and construction team, and delivered pre-installed to room-ready standard — a supply chain and quality control process that compressed on-site installation time while giving the hotel’s pre-opening operations team confidence that the finished product would match the approved samples precisely. We are proud to have contributed the complete FF&E environment to what promises to be the definitive business hotel of Zhengzhou’s new east district.

2026年6月2日
Hotel Camille Paris — Hilton Tapestry FF&E

Project Overview

When the historic Hôtel Azur at 5 Rue de Lyon prepared to join Hilton’s celebrated Tapestry Collection as Hotel Camille Paris Gare de Lyon, the ownership team sought an FF&E partner capable of honoring the building’s French heritage while delivering the modern comfort and brand consistency demanded by a four-star Hilton affiliate. Zhobai Hotel Furniture was engaged as the exclusive furniture, fixture, and equipment supplier for this complete 92-room renovation — one of the most character-rich projects our team has had the privilege of executing in Western Europe.

Located just 200 metres from the Gare de Lyon, one of Paris’s busiest rail hubs, Hotel Camille Paris occupies a prime position in the 12th arrondissement. The property’s identity is inseparable from its signature palette: cobalt blue — “azur” in French, evoking the infinite Parisian sky — runs through every public space and guestroom, transformed by our craftspeople into a cohesive material story that wraps velvet headboards, window drapery, accent walls, and upholstered lobby seating into a single, unmistakable aesthetic.

Hotel Camille Paris occupies a classic Haussmann-era building on Rue de Lyon, steps from Gare de Lyon.

The hotel entrance is framed by branded flags and ornamental ironwork that set the Parisian tone from the street.

Client Brief and Design Direction

The client’s brief was clear: preserve the soul of a genuine Paris neighbourhood hotel while elevating every touch point to Hilton Tapestry Collection standards. That meant retaining the warmth of aged timber, the romance of high ceilings and tall windows, and the intimacy of a 92-key boutique footprint — but layering in the quality of materials, durability of construction, and precision of ergonomics expected by international business and leisure travellers arriving at one of Europe’s busiest transport nodes.

Our design liaison team spent three days on-site before a single piece was specified. We measured every room type, documented ceiling heights, window reveals, and radiator positions, and photographed existing architectural details — moulded cornices, original timber banisters, herringbone parquet fragments — that the renovation brief required us to reference rather than erase. This forensic pre-design process allowed Zhobai to produce furniture that fits Hotel Camille Paris specifically, not generically.

Exterior Identity and Arrival Experience

First impressions in hospitality are formed within seconds of a guest stepping onto the pavement. Our scope at Hotel Camille Paris began at the kerb: the entrance canopy support pillars were dressed with custom powder-coated steel brackets in deep cobalt and brushed gold — a finish combination we would carry throughout the entire project as the property’s material signature.

The hotel’s front façade after renovation: classic stonework meets contemporary cobalt and gold branded elements supplied by Zhobai.

Luggage trolleys, umbrella stands, and the entrance mat frame — all fabricated to our bespoke specifications — were delivered in the same cobalt-and-gold language. These are details that most FF&E suppliers leave to procurement afterthoughts; for Zhobai, they are integral to the arrival sequence we design for every project.

Lobby and Reception: The Heart of Hotel Camille

Stepping inside, guests enter a lobby that our team conceptualised as a Parisian salon reimagined for the 21st century. The reception counter is a centrepiece piece: a curved desk clad in smoked oak veneer with inlaid brass detailing, topped with a honed Calacatta marble surface. Behind it, a backlit feature wall in deep indigo lacquer carries the hotel’s wordmark in polished brass lettering — Zhobai fabricated the entire millwork package, from the counter carcase to the letter mounting system.

The bespoke reception counter combines smoked oak, Calacatta marble, and polished brass — fabricated entirely by Zhobai’s millwork division.

The central lounge zone is lit from above by the building’s original skylight, a feature Zhobai’s furniture layout was specifically designed to celebrate.

Zhobai specified velvet-upholstered lounge chairs in cobalt and cognac, arranged to encourage conversation beneath the lobby’s art programme.

The lobby’s lounge zone occupies the building’s most architecturally spectacular space: a double-height atrium capped by a cast-iron-framed skylight, a surviving element of the original 19th-century construction. Zhobai’s furniture layout was designed in direct response to this overhead focal point. We positioned a trio of bespoke round ottomans beneath the apex, upholstered in a cobalt velvet that mirrors the sky visible through the glass above — a deliberate narrative connection between the hotel’s name, its colour identity, and its architectural heritage.

The lobby corridor connects reception to the lift lobby; Zhobai supplied custom console tables and wall-mounted luggage shelves in smoked oak throughout.

A casual lounge corner features Zhobai’s modular sofa system, configured to create an intimate enclave within the larger lobby volume.

Corridors and Transition Spaces

Often overlooked in FF&E specifications, corridors account for a significant portion of a guest’s time on property — the journey from lift to room shapes anticipation and sets the emotional register for the bedroom reveal. At Hotel Camille Paris, the original timber stairwell was a protected architectural feature: a graceful spiral of worn oak treads and wrought-iron balusters that management was determined to preserve.

Zhobai sourced aged-oak corridor consoles specifically matched to the tonality of the hotel’s original protected staircase.

Zhobai sourced aged-oak console tables and corridor wall brackets whose warm brown patina was sample-matched to the stairwell timberwork on-site. The corridor runner carpet — supplied and coordinated through our soft-furnishings division — incorporates a geometric Parisian tile motif in cobalt, cream, and terracotta, drawing on the decorative traditions of the city’s belle-époque interiors while maintaining the colourway discipline established throughout the project.

Guestrooms: 92 Rooms, Seven Distinct Configurations

The 92 guestrooms at Hotel Camille Paris span seven distinct room types — from the intimate Economy King to the spacious Deluxe King with unobstructed city views — each requiring carefully tailored FF&E packages that shared a common design vocabulary while responding to the individual constraints of ceiling height, natural light, and square footage.

King Room Category

The signature room type at Hotel Camille Paris is the King Room, and the defining object within it is the bed. Zhobai designed a bespoke upholstered headboard in a structured cobalt velvet — a cut-pile fabric chosen for both its visual depth and its Class 1 fire compliance under French EN 1021 standards. The headboard stands 1,350 mm tall, its arched profile referencing the rounded window reveals typical of Haussmann-era Parisian architecture.

Floor-to-ceiling cobalt curtains in the King Room frame city views while reinforcing the hotel’s signature azure identity; Zhobai supplied all soft furnishings and drapery hardware.

The Standard King Cityview room: Zhobai’s platform bed base, bedside tables, and upholstered bench are the three anchoring pieces in each king configuration.

The Deluxe King Cityview bedroom features a wider room footprint that allowed Zhobai to introduce a freestanding lounge chair — an upgrade detail that distinguishes deluxe tier positioning.

Blackout drapery in a deeper navy — a darker variant within the cobalt family — lines the bedrooms requiring full light control for guests arriving on overnight trains.

Floor-to-ceiling drapery tracks were specified in all king rooms, with Zhobai supplying both the motorised track hardware and the curtain fabric — a double-layer system pairing a sheer oyster voile (daytime privacy with diffused natural light) with a cobalt blackout panel (essential for Gare de Lyon-adjacent rooms where overnight train arrivals create unusual sleeping patterns). Drapery hemming and on-site installation were completed by our European installation crew in seven days across all king room floors simultaneously.

Economy King and Alternative Configurations

The Economy King rooms occupy the more compact footprints on lower floors. Here, Zhobai’s space-planning expertise was particularly valuable: the bed platform was designed with an integrated bedside shelf system that eliminated the need for separate nightstand tables, reclaiming approximately 400 mm of floor depth in rooms where every centimetre matters. A pop of warm terracotta in the curtain fabric — a deliberate departure from the cobalt dominant elsewhere — gives Economy King rooms a distinct warmth that compensates for their smaller window-to-floor ratio.

Economy King rooms feature a warm terracotta drapery accent — a conscious design choice by Zhobai to give lower-floor rooms with limited natural light their own identity rather than simply scaling down the standard cobalt scheme.

Twin and High-Floor Rooms

The Deluxe Twin configuration accommodates corporate travellers sharing rooms; Zhobai produced a bespoke dividing headboard panel that works aesthetically whether beds are separated or pushed together.

On the upper floors, Zhobai positioned furniture to frame the rooftop panorama of Paris rather than fight it — lower-profile seating keeps sightlines unobstructed.

The Deluxe Twin rooms address a specific commercial need: the property regularly accommodates corporate group bookings where colleagues share a room but require individual sleeping spaces with privacy. Zhobai designed a twin configuration built around a central upholstered divider panel — 600 mm tall, in cobalt bouclé — that creates visual separation between the two bed zones without requiring physical partition walls. The panel clips onto both bed bases with a concealed steel bracket system, allowing housekeeping to reconfigure from twin-to-king in under eight minutes when booking patterns change.

Workspace and Functional Furniture

The desk nook in select rooms features a cobalt accent wall panel behind a full-width floating desk — the panel is a Zhobai millwork product that conceals cable management channels within its depth.

The multi-function dresser-desk unit combines drawer storage with a full-width work surface — a space-efficient Zhobai design developed specifically for the 22–28 m² room footprints at Hotel Camille.

Working in partnership with Hilton’s brand standards team, Zhobai developed a multi-function dresser-desk unit that satisfies both the storage requirements of leisure travellers and the ergonomic workspace needs of the business guests transiting through Gare de Lyon. The unit measures 1,600 mm wide with four drawers, a luggage tray at 450 mm height, and a full-width work surface at 760 mm — desk height compliant with EN 527 ergonomic standards. Cable management is integrated within the rear panel, keeping surfaces clean and device-charging invisible.

Bathrooms: Marble, Tile, and Bespoke Vanity Millwork

Hotel Camille Paris bathrooms were specified in two distinct material languages: a premium marble scheme for Deluxe tier rooms and above, and a sophisticated dark tile scheme for Standard and Economy categories. Zhobai’s scope in both cases covered the vanity unit, mirror frame, towel rails, robe hooks, and all loose bathroom accessories — the built-in elements (tile, sanitary ware, shower fittings) were handled by the general contractor, with Zhobai’s millwork components delivered to site pre-finished and installed in coordination.

The Deluxe bathroom marble scheme features book-matched wall panels; Zhobai’s vanity unit is constructed in moisture-resistant MDF with a lacquered finish matched to the room’s cobalt accent colour.

In the luxury marble shower bathrooms, Zhobai supplied floor-to-ceiling mirror units with integrated LED strip lighting — a detail that expands the perceived volume of compact bathroom footprints.

The compact dark-tile bathroom scheme uses matte black accessories and a smoked-glass mirror frame from Zhobai’s standard collection — a cost-efficient specification that still delivers a boutique aesthetic.

Vanity units in the marble-scheme bathrooms are finished in a cobalt-tinted lacquer — a deliberate echo of the room’s dominant colour carried into the most intimate space on the floor. Zhobai’s vanity drawers use a soft-close undermount runner rated to 80,000 cycles, reflecting our standard specification for hotel environments where drawers are opened and closed by hundreds of guests over the furniture’s lifespan. Mirror units in the premium bathrooms are framed in polished brass and incorporate integrated LED strips that deliver 3,000K warm-white illumination — the colour temperature our design team specifies for bathroom environments to render skin tones accurately for guests applying makeup or shaving.

Dining and Food & Beverage Spaces

Hotel Camille Paris’s food and beverage offering centres on a lobby-integrated dining hall that serves breakfast, afternoon refreshments, and light evening meals — a compact but commercially important space given the volume of Gare de Lyon transit guests seeking a rapid, high-quality meal before or after train travel.

The lobby-integrated dining hall: Zhobai supplied all dining tables, chairs, and banquette seating — a deliberate mix of formats to accommodate solo diners, couples, and small groups simultaneously.

Round tables in the banquet dining zone were specified by Zhobai in an ash veneer with brass edge inlay — a detail that connects the dining programme to the lobby’s material palette.

Zhobai fabricated the entire breakfast buffet counter structure: a marble-topped station with integrated heat retention zones, cold display wells, and concealed dry storage below.

A discreet business dining nook adjacent to the main dining room accommodates guests requiring privacy for working breakfast meetings — seating and table specified by Zhobai in a tighter, more focused configuration.

The dining hall furniture programme required Zhobai to balance three competing demands: aesthetic coherence with the lobby, commercial durability under high-turnover breakfast service, and acoustic management in a hard-surfaced space. Our solution layered three seating types — upholstered banquette benches along the perimeter walls, mid-weight side chairs with a webbed seat pad at the central tables, and bar-height stools at the window counter — each contributing different acoustic absorption characteristics while maintaining visual consistency through a shared ash veneer and brass hardware language.

The breakfast buffet counter is a Zhobai bespoke fabrication: a 4.2-metre marble-topped station with integrated GN-pan hot wells, refrigerated display zones, and concealed lower storage for replenishment stock. The counter’s structural carcase is in moisture-resistant MDF finished in the hotel’s cobalt lacquer, with brass kick-plates protecting the most impact-prone lower panels. Our French installation team completed the buffet counter installation — including utility connections coordinated with the hotel’s plumbing contractor — in a single overnight shift to minimise disruption to pre-opening soft launches.

Project Execution and Delivery

The Hotel Camille Paris project presented logistical challenges specific to urban European renovation: a narrow Rue de Lyon streetfront allowed only single-file vehicle access, requiring Zhobai’s Paris-based logistics partner to stage deliveries in three coordinated waves using compact curtain-sided vans rather than the articulated lorries used in suburban and resort projects. All furniture items were delivered pre-assembled to room-ready condition where door widths permitted, with on-site assembly reserved only for pieces exceeding the 850 mm corridor width.

Zhobai coordinated directly with the Hilton Tapestry Collection pre-opening team to ensure that furniture installation milestones aligned with the building contractor’s floor-by-floor handover schedule. Our project manager was embedded in Paris for the final six weeks of the installation programme, conducting daily floor walks with the general contractor’s site manager and the hotel’s pre-opening operations director. This single point of contact model — a standard feature of Zhobai’s Premium Project service tier — eliminated the coordination gaps that commonly arise when furniture supply, installation, and pre-opening operations are managed by separate parties.

The project achieved practical completion on schedule, with all 92 rooms dressed and photographed ahead of the Hilton Tapestry Collection pre-opening inspection. Guest feedback in the property’s first operational year has consistently cited the “authentic Parisian character” and “beautifully decorated rooms” of Hotel Camille Paris — a response that validates the brief Zhobai worked to fulfil: a hotel that feels genuinely French, genuinely Parisian, and genuinely exceptional.

Why Zhobai for European Luxury Hotel Projects

Hotel Camille Paris Gare de Lyon exemplifies the type of project that showcases Zhobai Hotel Furniture’s deepest capabilities: a historically sensitive building, a recognisable international brand with non-negotiable quality standards, a compact urban logistics environment, and a design concept dependent on colour and material precision executed consistently across nearly 100 individual rooms. Our ability to deliver against all four of these challenges simultaneously — while maintaining the communication cadence and documentation standards expected by a Hilton-affiliated property — reflects fifteen years of refinement in how we manage complex FF&E programmes for international hotel operators.

From the cobalt velvet headboards to the brass-inlaid dining tables, from the marble vanity units to the hand-sourced aged-oak corridor consoles, every element of the Hotel Camille Paris FF&E programme was conceived, fabricated, shipped, and installed under Zhobai’s direct control. That is the value of a genuine one-stop FF&E partner — not merely a furniture vendor, but a creative and operational collaborator invested in the success of the hotel from the first design meeting to the final guest review.

2026年6月2日