Luxury Hotels Golf Resorts Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of a series of books published by teNeues that are really idea books on how the best of things are being designed right now. The hotels described here are not the normal Motel 6's in either amenities, or (I suspect) room rate. They range across the world from Europe to Asia, South Africa, and both North and South America.
Golf is featured at all of these places, but the non-golfer would not find himself out of place visiting any of them. They all have every feature you could possibly expect of a Luxury Hotel. These hotels offer a lot more than simply a place to put ones head down for the night.
The book is of large format, profusely illustrated with color photographs and printed using a very high quality printing process on very good paper. Anyone looking to design such a hotel, or even looking for a high end business entertaining location can find a lot of good inspiration in this book.

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This impressive volume showcases the finest golf resorts around the globe.All these hotels enjoy a unity of style that ties together interiors and exteriors.All corners of the earth and every type of setting are represented.This outstanding collection shows fine architecture and interiors set amidst lush, manicured greens and fairways.The book features golf resorts from Scotland where the game was invented, as well as from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Northern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.Each resort is remarkable in its own right and will certainly please the avid golfer. But with their top-notch standards and settings, they are a delight for the non-golfer as well!

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Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion Review

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(More customer reviews)This book represents a good historic insight to hotels and their development in the worlds regions. As an hotel industry professional, I find the details of yesteryear a delight recorded in this well planned and illustrated volume. The book shows a slight bias toward the English tradition but as Elaine has clearly researched some of Englands older towns and cities, it is charming to see how grand the home market was. The selection of the international hotels misses many of those hotels that I would consider of the Grand genre but that gives Elaine a reason to write the next volume.

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Paris, Hotels and More (Midsize) Review

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(More customer reviews)Written in English, French and German, "Paris" not just a guide book, but a memory book of exquisite design, superb photographs, and the highest quality printing on thick, finely-textured paper. Note that the type is a bit small, even with reading glasses.
These featured photos from the internal pages of the book don't fully capture its beauty and artistic design. When was the last time you ran your fingers over thick, finely-textured paper and experienced genuine quality for $16.40? Like Paris, this book is not "slick". It's the equivalent of a Bergdorf Goodman cashmere sweater.
Organized by arrondisement or neighborhood, each page captures the very soul and character of Paris, immersing the reader in the atmosphere and sensuality of the streets, shops, hotels and restaurants. I was completely seduced by each page.
Anjelika Taschen introduces both the seasoned explorer of Parisian neighborhoods and the first-time visitor to new haunts. Stop by the Grande Herboristerie Parisienne de la Place Clichy, a shop stocking more than 900 herbs that produce an infinite number of individually-prepared remedies for a multitude of modern maladies. I've been to Paris more times than I can count, and I found many new experiences for my Sept. visit.
Plan ahead in your gift giving or personal travel schedule. Unfortunately, this jewel of a guide book is not immediately available in the U.S. and is on a 1-3 week delivery. Buy a few copies in advance and put them in the closet. You will have a unique, memorable gift for special friends, family and business colleagues of every age, male and female.

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The total Paris experienceWhere to stay and what to visit in the City of Love? Among the sumptuously-photographed accommodations included here are the Christian Lacroix-designed Le Petit Moulin, the Dokhan's (designed by Frédéric Méchiche), the ultra-chic Hotel Costes by Jacques Garcia, the charming low budget Le Recamier Hotel overlooking the magnificent Place Saint Sulpice or the intimate secret hideaway of Tom Ford and a Marais apartment for rent owned and decorated by fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa. While you're in town, enjoy our suggestions for everything from a literary café experience to a luxurious perfume boutique or a renowned cheese shop. Everything in this guide is carefully tailored to help make your Parisian holiday as fulfilling as possible.

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Cool Hotels Best of Europe (Photography) Review

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(More customer reviews)All of Europe's most influential designers find a place in this collection of cutting-edge accommodations for the jet set, the landed, and the tastemakers in between. Rich, vibrant photographs capture the astonishing craftsmanship and ingenuous design that goes into truly world-class hotels built to draw the best and brightest and most beautiful.
It's a gorgeous book -- the perfect conversation starter, a thoughtful present, and so much fun to read.

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Europe's burgeoning contemporary hotel scene draws much attention for its daring and panache. This oversized addition to the successful Cool Hotels series is a selection of the most outstanding examples the continent offers. With designs that intrigue and amuse, these accommodations highlight the absolute best in groundbreaking architecture and design. Stunning photographs showcase bold use of materials, innovative artworks, hip furnishings as well as creative color combinations. Each hotel is a true microcosm of the cutting edge aesthetic.

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Cool Hotels: India, Maldives, Sri Lanka Review

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(More customer reviews)Students of architecture, hotel and commercial building design, and travel will all find much to attract in Cool Hotels: India, Maldives, Sri Lanka: it features the best hotels of the region, from rustic to big city, and discusses craftsmanship, artistic d‚cor, and landscaping qualities which make each hotel exceptional. The meat of Cool Hotels lies in its full-page color photos of both interior and exteriors of featured hotels.


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With more than 500 ravishing full-color photographs, Cool Hotels brings you to the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The super-deluxe establishments included here are all at the cutting-edge of hotel design and management. Each property has been hand-picked according to a set of criteria that includes a strong design aesthetic, architectural integrity, and a sense of individuality a million miles away from the cookie-cutter approach of chain hotels. Many of these properties have never been featured in guides before, and many have recently opened. Cool Hotels is the first in a series of hotel guides focusing on Asia. Ultimately these will be the definitive guides exclusively featuring Asia'sfinest places to stay.

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Summer by the Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950 Review

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(More customer reviews)As an architect who grew up in a small coastal New England town that had a grand wooden hotel from the late 19th century, I appreciate Tolles' survey of what were once some very special places. Many of these buildings were significant as works of architecture, and were done by some of the best architects practicing at the time. Many were spectacular renditions of the Shingle Style, and others were done in earlier styles. They created the atmosphere of the seashore resort, and brought people to appreciate the natural beauty of the areas where they were built. It in unfortunate that so many succumbed to fire, but balloon framing (with its open vertical chases between studs) and the lack of sprinkler systems increased the risk of fire tremendously. This book, like Tolles' other books, is well-presented, with good period photographs and drawings.

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Summer by the Seaside is a lavishly illustrated work on the origins, evolution, and gradual decline of the resort hotel phenomenon and its architecture along the New England coastline and on its offshore islands.In this indispensable, breakthrough volume, Bryant F.Tolles, Jr., the recognized expert in this popular field, examines the landmark hotels, extant and not, in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.Together these hospitality enterprises helped define the upscale tourist industry and key aspects of New England social,cultural, economic, and architectural history between 1820 and 1950.Exhaustively researched and beautifully assembled, this stunning and informative volume is the definitive work on the history of travel and tourism in coastal New England during this period.

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Public Toilet Design: From Hotels, Bars, Restaurants, Civic Buildings and Businesses Worldwide (Trends in Architecture) (English, French and Italian Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)while the majority of the WC shown here were created with a substantial budget, Public Toilet Design demonstrates a wide variety of styles and settings that can be inspiring (if you can imagine a public toilet being inspiring) for anyone in the design profession.

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A really well-designed public toilet is a rare and welcome discovery. It adds greatly to the impression made on a building's users -- whether in a restaurant, mall, airport or hotel. And, in the case of public toilets in parks and streets, a clean and aesthetically pleasant public toilet leaves the user with a positive opinion of the city as a whole. For much of the 20th century, "cheap and durable" was the rule. That trend is changing.Designing Public Toilets presents the best projects made in the last two years, worldwide. There are more than 50 public spaces shown, with the "facilities" well integrated into good design.There are more than 600 full-color photographs. Each project is accompanied by plans and detailed descriptions that show the transformation of the public toilet as its planning, development and construction took shape over the last few years.It includes:- History and evolution of the public toilet- Places of leisure: restaurants, bars, clubs, malls, gyms, theatres, museums, stadiums- Commuting spaces: airports, train stations, boats, rest areas- Public residences: hotels, spas, geriatric residences- Work areas: banks, offices, public administrations- Materials and accessories used- Ergonomics: adaptations of the elderly, handicapped, and diaper-changing stationsDesigning Public Toilets is for architects, designers, public administrators, restaurant owners and other proprietors of publicly used space -- anyone wanting to give their clients a better impression where it is keenly noticed.

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Cool Hotels Cool Prices Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been buying my coffee table books at teNeues for quite a long time now, and it's just perfect for such usage! It brings a definite aesthetic upgrade to the lounge and the photos are printed clearly with short description of each hotels. Good book for leisure activity.

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We all know how fun and exciting travel can be.But as with all good things in life, it's too easy to deny yourself.This accessible Styleguide edition profiles the coolest hotels for more modest budgets.Each featured hostelry offers comfort, style and sophistication.It just goes to show that high-end design can equal affordability.

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Hotel Spaces Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is full of color photographs, most of them full-page. It is organized by type of space: facades, pools & terraces, lobbies & lounges, bars & restaurants, and suites & bedrooms. Each type of space is given a very brief introduction and represented by 30+ pages of beautiful photographs; the captions contain only the name of the hotel pictured. A directory of hotels at the end contains thumbnails of the pictures of that property, making cross-referencing easier.
There is minimal text, and no architectural plans are included. This is a great book for designers looking for inspiration - it provides beautiful pictures of different ways to design basic components of a hotel, such as a lobby or bedroom. Recommended for architecture and design libraries.

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More than 400 international hotels are featured
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 of some of the most recently built and inventive hotels in the world.

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Spectacular Hotels: The Most Remarkable Places on Earth Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is your guide to the best hotels in the world. It has THE places to go before you die - the most beautiful places on earth to spend a week or a weekend. Even if you never go there, this book is the perfect fantasy travel guide. It will make any rainy cold day disappear as you walk through the pages of the world's greatest hotels. Trisha Wilson knows what she's talking about - she designed many of these top picks. This book is for anyone who loves travel, luxury and room service!

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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 and adventurous jet-set traveler.

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The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms (The Cool Hunter) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you a fan of The Cool Hunter you will enjoy this book ... has a lot of ideas that can inspire you ...

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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 and nonstop action of Berlin—there is an amazing place to stay, and Tikos has roamed the globe to find it and the best room in the house.

From a personal concierge in Buenos Aires who can schedule an impromptu tango lesson to a spectacular view of Rajasthan's age old Aravali hills from a deluxe suite, every accommodation provides a unique experience. Boring is not an option. There are rooms that fulfill rock star fantasies—complete with soundstage—and others that elevate the meaning of luxury, with sumptuously dressed daybeds in lush, secluded gardens with private pools. Each entry provides the inspiration behind the hotel's architecture, details the room's special amenities, design features, and rate. Local points of interest are described as well.

With every entry personally selected by a tastemaker whose discerning eye for the most happening movements, styles, and trends in travel, fashion, music, urban living, and design has earned him a global following, The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms is indispensable for creating a special travel experience.

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