Design Hotels Book: 2010 Edition
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Whether travel guide or coffee table reverie, any amble through this book will certainly inspire the quick banking of extra vacation days. -
Grims Grenka in Oslo is a very swish design hotel that I visited when in Norway two years ago. Had a quick drink in the lobby, ran into a rabid Red Sox fan, worried over the state of their bullpen, wandered off into the very cold evening air with my very tall, Canadian pal, wished I were staying there. -
The Boundary is the rather relaxed Sir Terence Conran's London entry into the Design Hotels canon. -
The Boundary is a colorful affair with accents from the mid-century masters, and its restaurant is meant to inspire as much gastronomical as design lust. -
The Boundary is in London's Shoreditch neighborhood. -
The Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali has achieved Green Globe certification, making Indonesia a slightly greener place indeed. -
Another hotelier profiled here is Daniele Kihlgren, whose medieval manse in the Italian town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Abruzzo is meant for, as he puts it, "'modern-age romantics,' in the literary sense of the word." -
"IT was a dreamline vision: it seemed as though everything had frozen in time. Neither the medieval hamlet nor the rural scenery surrounding it revealed any evidence of the 20th century's passing," says Kihlgren of his hotel's environs. -
Kihlgren at his hotel. -
A match made in brand-synergy heaven, Levi's paired up with 25Hours Hotel to create 25Hours Hotel Frankfurt Tailored by Levi's. -
Kit Kemp, whose hospitality company Firmdale has a number of hotels under Design Hotels' aegis, is the designer responsible for the likes of the Covent Garden Hotel and Soho Hotel in London and the Crosby Street Hotel in New York. -
Kemp's design inspiration, clearly, comes from all over the map.
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