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The Design Hotels Book
The Design Hotels Book: Edition 2009 is the most comprehensive encyclopedia to date featuring the most attractive international design hotels the world over. The book presents 170 luxurious, original and distinctive properties that are setting new standards in high-end hospitality. This rich compendium contains portraits of each member hotel through stunning photographs of its architecture and interior design in addition to detailed information about its distinguished concept. The book also features extensive profiles of visionary individuals designers and hoteliers who...
UltraLuxe Hotels: The experience awaits
Ultraluxe. A byword for comfort, where the ambience is comprised of carefully crafted interiors, unrivalled amenities and superlative service; in which the most discreet of staff attend to their guest’s every wish - in locations ranging from the international hot spots of Paris and New York to far flung villages in Cambodia, to exclusive island paradises and private villas in the Gulf offering the ultimate in spa treatments. From safaris to snorkelling to rural retreats, here is a selection of only the very best from around the globe.
Hotel Spaces
Hotel owners and designers recognize that the range of style options now available to appeal to hotel customers is not only endless but that creativity and distinction in this area of the hotel business is essential to success. Everyday, hotel owners give more and more freedom to today's most recognized architects and designers to create looks that are unique and make a personal statement about the hotel's clientel. This book, divided into room types such as lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, guest rooms, spas and sports facilities, showcases an array...
The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms
Written by one of the world's leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read www.coolhunter.net, Bill Tikos, The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms opens the doors to more than fifty of the hippest, sexiest, newest, and most unusual rooms across the seven continents. Featuring the work of today's top architects and interior designers, this book offers diverse accommodations with one thing in common: impeccable taste with edge. So wherever wanderlust may take you—from an idyllic getaway in Scotland's remote Jura Island to the bright lights...
Spectacular Hotels: The Most Remarkable Places on Earth
Showcasing 30 hotels on five continents, this beautifully photographed travel book conducts a tour through some of the world’s most extravagant and lavish lodges, including the Four Seasons, the Peninsula, Aman Resorts, the Ritz-Carlton, and other famously luxurious hotels. The photographs visit world-class hotels in a variety of cities—from Bangkok and Capetown to New York and Hong Kong—and offer travelers expertise on amazing places to stay in locations they may never have dreamed of visiting. This updated edition features six new hotels for the prospective...
Luxury Hotels Spa&Wellness
At these top hostelries, you’ll receive the levels of comfort and convenience you’d expect from the finest hotels, but you’ll also feel revitalized thanks to their emphasis on relaxation and wellness. The book features lavish full-color photography of luxury spas from The Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, to The Ritz Carlton South Beach, Miami, to The West Cape Hotel & Spa, South Africa and Rajvilas in Jaipur, India. Whether a fully equipped spa, where you’ll receive an array of pampering treatments, or a kitchen that emphasizes healthy and invigorating menus, here are some...
Best Designed Ecological Hotel
Hi-tech, environmental compatibility and good design are no longer a contradiction in terms. In fact, they can complement one another splendidly. Business with nature and the number of "Eco lodges" on offer is huge. Often this type of accommodation is lacking in style. And yet, particularly travel in harmony with nature should be something that appeals to all our senses. The new book "best designed ecological hotels" shows how elegance, architecture and nature can be perfectly combined. It presents outstanding hotel architecture from its best side in the world’s most...
Exotic Retreats: Eco Resort Design From Barefoot Sophistication to Luxury Pad
Exotic Retreats is a sumptuous collection of gorgeous holiday retreats. It features 40 remarkable hotels, ecolodges, and resorts from around the world... from the tops of mountains to tiny secluded islands, and from five-star luxury pads to barefoot hideaways. What makes these retreats different is that they all tread lightly on the earth; they all give more to their local communities than they take, and they all use architecture in a sustainable way which also complements the beauty of the surroundings. Organized by region, the beauty and character of each destination comes alive in...
Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan
Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate decor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books...
Stylish Hotel Design
With ever-increasing numbers of savvy customers, and the growing exchange of information on destinations, hotels have discovered that they must constantly keep upgrading and improving in order to hold their appeal for discriminating travelers. The innovative designs in Hotel Design redefine the concept of what a hotel should be, from a design standpoint as well as the consumer standpoint. With thorough documentation, floor plans, the architects? own sketches and notes, and hundreds of glowing color photos, Hotel Design is a great place to settle down for a long stay.
Hip Hotels: City, Revised Edition
Hip Hotels: City was the very first book to address a whole new travel phenomenon: hotels of such sheer style and individuality that they have redefined the travel experience. Through innovative architecture, outstanding design, and world-class cuisine, Hip Hotels have become destinations in their own right. But the book did not just identify a trend, it has led it. This revised edition reflects that, introducing ten stunning new hotels. They include Blakes in Amsterdam, Anouska Hempel's latest venture, which brings her Asian-inflected minimalism to a superb piece of Dutch Golden...
Hip Hotels Atlas
With Hip Hotels Atlas, Herbert Ypma created the ultimate guide to the world's best places to stay. Now in a travel-friendly new format, the book is ready to be tucked into a carry-on as you venture off to one of these eighty remarkable destinations. The book is divided into six sections—Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and South America—each with its own introduction and atmospheric historical map. You will be tempted by, among a host of other alluring possibilities, a stay in a classic Italian palazzo with a romantic rose garden, a magnificent mud Casbah...
21st Century Hotel
Newly built hotels are being admired throughout the world by travelers and architects, and this strikingly illustrated survey features the best new designs. In the past several years, hoteliers have responded ever more boldly to their guests’ demands for both luxury and aesthetic sophistication. The result has been the emergence of new trends in hotel design, which at one extreme increasingly blur the border between lodging, lifestyle, and living theatre, and at the other seek to reinvent the more discreet manners and style of the grand hotels of the late nineteenth century.
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