Travel: 2. A Seductive Hideaway.(Jardins Secrets)(Hotel review)(Brief article)

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker RICHARD ALLEMAN

Hidden behind a high wall on an unprepossessing street in NA[R]mes lies one of the most romantic small hotels in the South of France. Jardins Secrets is an eighteenth-century former inn and an adjacent cloister surrounded by gardens of bougainvillea, orange and olive trees, and a lovely swimming pool. The creation of stylist and interior decorator Annabelle Valentin and her photographer husband, Christophe, the four-year-old property has just unveiled ten new rooms and suitesoutfitted with exquisite antiques and opulent silks by the likes of Pierre Frey, Nobilis, and BraqueniA[c]. Served in the garden, breakfast consists of mini-croissants and homemade jasmine-flower and rose-petal jams. For other ...