1 · Position
A licensed treatment name placed inside hotels rather than a spa company. Three existed: Le Mirador Resort & Spa in Switzerland, the Hôtel Sahrai at Fez, and the Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo, which opened in February 2017 as the third and newest. Didier Gomez designed the Monte-Carlo rooms — a marble entrance cut with black lines, a digital green wall, ten treatment rooms whose embossed walls were made to resemble the lace of haute couture dresses, a heat circuit of sauna, hammam, caldarium, ice fountain and sensory showers, a Pedi:Mani:Cure studio by Bastien Gonzalez and a Givenchy boutique. The spa director’s own line was that guests loved it because there were only three Givenchy Spas in the world.
2 · ⚑ The name has since been withdrawn, and the room carried on
The Hôtel Métropole now presents the same floor as Spa Metropole by Guerlain. The Library records this as the mechanism of the whole group, not as news: a maison licenses its name to a room it does not operate, and when the licence ends the room continues under the next name. It is exactly what happened to Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast at LHL-004 Palazzo Versace, and to Trump SoHo at LHL-381 Trump International Hotels, where the letters came down overnight and the hotel reopened as The Dominick. Scarcity was the selling point — three in the world — and scarcity is what a licence cannot guarantee.
3 · Why the entry stays
Under §6.1 the address is not deleted. Givenchy Spa existed, it was one of the clearest cases in this register of a fashion house selling a treatment protocol into hotels it had nothing else to do with, and the fact that one of its three rooms now belongs to a competitor is the most instructive thing about it. An entry that only records the arrangements still standing would teach nothing about how they end.
4 · Candour
⚑ Whether the Swiss and Moroccan spas still carry the name is not established here, and the entry does not say. The date the Monte-Carlo licence ended is not established either; what is established is that the hotel’s own current pages name Guerlain. The Metropole itself is given as built in 1886 in one account and 1889 in another, and the register carries both.