Grand Hotels is the fruit of the many years Elaine Denby has devoted to travels and visits throughout Europe, North America, the Near East and the Orient; it is a fascinating architectural and social history that covers the globe from the 1830s to the 1930s, but which also takes note of the most recent refurbishments. The styles of architecture and decor have varied enormously for grand hotels: a French Renaissance ch???teau manner for the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 1880s; a fantastic Moorish-style confection for ...
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Grand Hotels is the fruit of the many years Elaine Denby has devoted to travels and visits throughout Europe, North America, the Near East and the Orient; it is a fascinating architectural and social history that covers the globe from the 1830s to the 1930s, but which also takes note of the most recent refurbishments. The styles of architecture and decor have varied enormously for grand hotels: a French Renaissance ch???teau manner for the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 1880s; a fantastic Moorish-style confection for the Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast (1891); Art Deco for Oliver Hill's seaside Midland Grand at Morecombe in England (1933). And the services available were equally stunning: Turkish baths, rifle-ranges, even a fleet of vintage Rolls-Royces at Hong-Kong's Peninsula. To keep this illusory world glittering, the reality had to run like clockwork, with managers like C???sar Ritz, king of hoteliers, monitoring every detail from ballrooms to basement boilers. Grand Hotels explores every aspect of this all-but-vanished world of opulence, from the entrepreneurs, architects and designers who made it possible to the ambitious individuals and dynasties that kept it going.
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An excellent guide both to development of hospitality as well as individual database of the historic hotels of the world. Hotels are presented in a concised manner, generally offering details about their architects and architectural styles which I found of great interest. Numerous historic and contemporary illustrations helps in better preview of these special institutions. My only regret is that some hotels for which I believe should of been in this book are excluded, such as Danieli in Venezia, Carlton in Cannes, Grand & Excelsior in Florence...as well as, a lack of information about Eastern Europe hotels.
Overall, this is an excellent and must-have book for all admirers of the historic hotels.
