andré interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM hôtel grand amour is not just a place for checking in and checking out. it’s not a club, but it could be. it’s what paris used to be famous for, a place for romance OLIVIER ZAHM — Did you have an ideal hotel in mind, a model? ANDRÉ — I didn’t know the Chelsea in its heyday, but it’s clear I was thinking of that mythical hotel and recreating something like that on a small scale, with 24 tiny little rooms. All our artist friends from New York have been here. Dash Snow, for example. I remember when you spent the day interviewing him in his room, naked, with his girlfriend Jade, who was pregnant… My Amour hotels are not a chain. They’re not concept hotels, either, or boutique hotels, or hotels done up by hip designers. This is an artists’ hotel, made for a creative community…