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Hot Spot: Murano Urban Resort, Paris.(The Good Life)(Brief article)

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Byline: Sameer Reddy

When it comes to high-end hotels, the City of Lights tends more toward the stuffy than the streamlined. The Murano balances the equation, bringing a sleek, ultracontemporary option to the bourgeois elegance of the Marais.

Rooms The 43 rooms and nine suites range from about $570 to $3,600 a night. High-tech effects, like a light system that shifts color to suit your mood and a Bang & Olufsen flat-screen TV, are set against a pop backdrop of funhouse colors and frosted glass. A biometric finger-scanning mechanism, straight out of "Star Wars," controls each room's front door. Two suites feature a heated plunge pool set in a small terrace.

Food Le Murano restaurant has carved out a reputation as ...

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