he Nord Pinus hotel belongs
to the memory of all Arlesians.

As a child it was the temple of vacationing of high society and above all of bullfighters.
As if it were an initiatory trip taken the other way round starting from the Place du Forum but without leaving it to reach Paris, Spain, to the world.
Pictures of Lucia Bose and Dominguin in his white and gold suit of Cocteau and Picasso in their black cloaks and Germaine great priestess of this temple, with her pastel coloured suits, feared and admired. Then the closed shutter, the cracked walls the ghost. Filled lounges terrible fright lest the ship should sink. But the antique gods forum did not wish it that way and they offered their help to Ann, so that she could bring it back to life with subtile and devoted touches and very sophisticated details  : terra cotta and wrought iron, provencal style furniture and icons of bullfights "boutis" and venitian torches.
The bull, fighters are back in this mystical n°10 suite and along with them not only the nostalgies like myself but all those persons who stay in this hotel and want to feel Arlesians... Suerte  !
Christian Lacroix - 31/03/1990