Product Description

Hotels are increasingly concentrating on offering memorable experiences through unique design features from soft and luxurious and deliberately artistic kitsch through to no-fuss minimal.

Hotel Interior Structures presents a world-wide range of innovative hotel designs that illustrate all these different aspects and bring to light the work of leading architects and designers including Michael Graves, Philippe Starck and John Rocha. It gives particular attention to design features - colour, light, materials, use of space - and the use of particular furnishings and objects in these innovative interiors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1484924 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-21
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 264 pages

From the Inside Flap
The steep increases recently witnessed in both business and leisure travel have helped provoke a new variety in hotel interiors, and designers from various disciplines are now establishing a range of design solutions catering to the widely differing demands of each client type, giving new identities to hotels. form the boutique hotel to the airport atrium, the urban retreat to the contemporary resort, the immensity of Vegas to the intimacy of Beirut, Hotel Interior Structures presents a wide range of these new design trends found in present-day hotel interiors.
This volume aims to offer architects, interior designers and hotel owners - as well as those with a more general interest in the use of interior design detail to create a particular atmosphere or living experience - a valuable insight into the what, why and how of current design directions for hotels across the globe. Identifying ten hotel types that have been conceived within the last ten years, it features text, plans and detailed photography of a selection of hotels of each type, as well as interviews with some of the key figures involved. With examples of hotels in major cities and resorts worldwide - from London, Paris and New York to locations in Japan, Egypt and Lebanon - it gives a complete picture of the creativeness and imaginativeness of hotel interior design at the beginning of the 21st century.
Hotel Interior Structures is the first book in the new Wiley Academy "Interior Structures" series, highlighting innovative interior design in specific building types. The next title in the series will be Bar Restaurant Interior Structures.

From the Back Cover
The steep increases recently witnessed in both business and leisure travel have helped provoke a new variety in hotel interiors, and designers from various disciplines are now establishing a range of design solutions catering to the widely differing demands of each client type, giving new identities to hotels. form the boutique hotel to the airport atrium, the urban retreat to the contemporary resort, the immensity of Vegas to the intimacy of Beirut, Hotel Interior Structures presents a wide range of these new design trends found in present-day hotel interiors.

This volume aims to offer architects, interior designers and hotel owners - as well as those with a more general interest in the use of interior design detail to create a particular atmosphere or living experience - a valuable insight into the what, why and how of current design directions for hotels across the globe. Identifying ten hotel types that have been conceived within the last ten years, it features text, plans and detailed photography of a selection of hotels of each type, as well as interviews with some of the key figures involved. With examples of hotels in major cities and resorts worldwide - from London, Paris and New York to locations in Japan, Egypt and Lebanon - it gives a complete picture of the creativeness and imaginativeness of hotel interior design at the beginning of the 21st century.

About the Author
ELEANOR CURTIS is a writer and photographer based in London. She works with a number of UK national broadsheets and various international journals. Main features include architecture, urban design and interiors. Her reportage work has included extensive coverage of the conflict in Angola since 1998 with two international photographic exhibitions. She has also worked as a photographer in Angola for Save the Children Fund UK and the United Nations World Food Programme.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Photography and Detail
Eleanor Curtis has done a beautiful job of capturing the outstanding nature of the hotel properties in this book. Her photographs demonstrate the unique details added to each structure, while giving a more general view of the property.

She selected excellent features of each property to high-light, and her descriptions and photographs are to be applauded. This collection would be a perfect gift for anyone intereseted or involved with architecture or hotels or both.