Le Petit Hotel

The place

In Old Montreal, a 19th-century building that once housed a leather business. The grey stone facade has been kept as it was; inside, Europe's old-world charm reads through a modern hand.

There are 28 rooms, no more. Raw exposed stone walls hold the building's history, while sleek furnishings pull each room into the present. Marie L'Oie bedding, a Marshall speaker, Le Labo toiletries, a multi-jet shower.

Small, deliberately. The kind of hotel you remember by the texture of its walls.