It has been the byword for one-of-a-kind hospitality ever since Rémy de Haenen first welcomed guests to his Eden Rock home on the ocean, during the 1950s. In 2018 the studio undertook a renovation of the public areas and a number of rooms and suites.

Eden Rock St Barths has established itself as the preferred private and discreet bolt-hole of many glamourous Hollywood characters who quickly became friends of St Barths. Howard Hughes Greta Garbo Robert Mitchum Gore Vidal Baron Rothschild David & Peggy Rockfeller Princess Lee Radziwill, amongst numbers of others.