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Great, Grand & Famous Hotels
This is a book for lovers of remarkable hotels. Whether you are a long-term luxury hotel addict, or just fantasising about a visit to one of the world's great hotels, this book is for you. This book features stories about great, grand and famous hotels sourced from history, legend and the occasional snippet of gossip. Take a peek inside and discover a treasure trove of famous or forgotten anecdotes. See the dramas unfold in lobbies, dining rooms, bars and ballrooms, or behind the closed doors of guest rooms and Presidential Suites. Marvel at those who made these hotels what they are: daring financiers, visionary owners, inventive architects, cutting-edge designers, devoted hoteliers and reno...
Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age
The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore, the Sherry, the Pierrethese landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating these and countless other hotels throughout the United States, were the partners of a single architectural firm: Schultze & Weaver. Together, this duoan architect and an engineervirtually invented the glamorous lifestyle made famous in films like Grand Hotel. Catering to the social elite of which they were themselves a part, Schultze & Weaver synthesized the Old World style of Renaissance Italy, Moorish Spain, and Georg...
British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire
Drawing focus on a crucial period of contemporary British history, this book explores Cold War anxieties over Imperial decline and British identity through analysis of space in popular twentieth-century spy fiction, enabling the cultural impact of decolonisation to be read in a new and revealing light. Visiting the literary representation of space, identity, and power in the work of Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, and John le Carré, it is an excellent resource for any scholars with an interest in spy fiction, British fiction, and popular literature.
Great, Grand and Famous Chefs and Their Signature Dishes
Great, Grand & Famous Chefs and their Signature Dishes is a study of the development of haute cuisine and the rise of the chef-patron, from Marie-Antoine Careme (the first celebrity chef, known as 'the king of chefs and the chef of kings') to superstar chefs of today such as Gordon Ramsay and Australia's own Tetsuya Wakuda. The included recipes - one for each chef - enable the reader to get a taste of the signature dishes of the world's greatest chefs. This book is presented in a roughly chronological order, with profiles of 20 chefs who have been influential in the development of haute cuisine throughout the 20th century.
Bell'Italia È Per Sempre
The author brings to life some of Italy's most amazing landscapes, such as Venice, Lake Como, Florence, the Amalfi Coast and the Aeolian Islands. She explores legendary hotels in which novels have been set, movies made and love stories consummated.
The Grand Tour
- Perfectly interpreted in a contemporary, enriching manner, The Grand Tour takes the viewer on an inspirational journey through Italy's most individual hotels scattered all over the peninsula, all whilst letting readers discover the myriad of culture that there is to learn from every corner of this great country - The Grand Tour proposes a distinct way of traveling, becoming an invaluable travel companion or a unique window on the world in the making Beginning in the late 16th century it became fashionable for the aristocracy to visit Italy; from Venice to Florence and Rome as the culmination of their classical education. Thus, the idea of The Grand Tour was born; a practice which taught ar...
The Hotel Book
Who minds sleeping under a mosquito net when it's royally draped over the bed in a lush Kenyan, open-walled hut, fashioned from tree trunks and shielded from the sun by a sumptuous thatched roof? This selection of the most-splendid getaway havens nestled throughout the African continent is sure to please even the most finicky would-be voyagers. Photos.
Najsławniejsi hotelarze wszech czasów
"Najsławniejsi hotelarze wszech czasów" to jedna z najbardziej wszechstronnych publikacji poświęconych wybitnym postaciom, które miały kluczowy wpływ na rozwój hotelarstwa i całej branży gościnności. W 36 rozdziałach przedstawiono fascynujące historie 41 wyjątkowych osób – budowniczych, inwestorów, właścicieli i menedżerów hoteli, a także szefów kuchni oraz twórców innowacyjnych koncepcji i globalnych marek hotelowych. Książka odkrywa kulisy powstawania największych sieci i korporacji hotelowych, takich jak Ritz, Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, Holiday Inn, Oberoi, Sheraton, Accor, Four Seasons, Days Inn, Residence Inn, Howard Johnson’s, Hyatt, Best Western czy Trust Houses Forte. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono pionierom tej profesji – niektórym zapomnianym, lecz bez wątpienia kluczowym dla rozwoju hotelarstwa i podniesienia jego prestiżu. To wyjątkowa publikacja, będąca swoistym hołdem dla legend, które na stałe wpisały się w historię światowej gościnności.
What Happens at Night
A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the b...
Glasgow's Grand Central Hotel
This title presents a history of Glasgow's Grand Central Hotel dating from 1883 that chronicles a glamorous, exciting past of celebrity, stars, nostalgia, luxury, glitz, weddings, kitchens and chefs, fancy dresses and ball rooms to stories of its 20 million refurbishment by the Principal Hayley Hotel Group."
