"The Mondrian name has always been synonymous with a certain fairy-tale quality, but even by their standards, the Mondrian Bordeaux Les Carmes is something special: not a purpose-built hotel building but a 19th-century castle in Chartrons, which once belonged to the Maison Calvet wine-producing concern. Fantastic enough, even before Philippe Starck was turned loose on the place — and the Mondrian Bordeaux Les Carmes finds the iconoclastic designer at his most elegant and Romantic, with a capital R, filling every space with evocative details and inviting textures." - Tablet Hotels