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's finest places to stay.
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Kim Inglis, a Singapore-based writer and editor, personally selected the properties featured in Cool Hotels. She co-wrote Periplus Editions' bestselling Tropical Asian Style.
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Features the best hotels of the region,
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This review is from: Cool Hotels: India, Maldives, Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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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Gorgeous book of hotels,
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This review is from: Cool Hotels: India, Maldives, Sri Lanka (Paperback)
This gorgeous book of luxury hotels is organized by region and covers North India, Rajasthan, Goa, South India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Each hotel is represented by a 1- to 2-page description and about 4 pages of color photographs (mostly interior, but some exterior). The description focuses on the design of the hotel - colors, materials, construction, furniture, finishes, etc. It is a wonderful book for designers and armchair travelers; it is not intended as a travel guide, although it does include the address, phone number and website of each hotel.
The quality of the photographs is very good, the paperback cover is thick, and the binding seems strong. The photographs are an excellent source of inspiration for designers, and the text adds some context regarding the decisions made during the design process. Highly recommended for interior design libraries.
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For those who know India well, it is somehow comforting to arrive in Delhi, see a cow nonchalantly walking in the middle of the road, note the mayhem of traffic, and reminisce about the noise, confusion and Indian-ness of it all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sri Lanka, Fort Cochin, Sun House, Four Seasons, Siolim House, Malabar House, Kahanda Kanda, Nilaya Hermitage, Sonar Bangla, Soneva Fushi, Coconut Lagoon, Dutch House, Elephant Corridor, Villa Mahotti Walauwa, Arabian Sea, Durbar Hall, Geoffrey Bawa, New Delhi, Park Hyatt, Pousada Tauma, Republic of Maldives, Samode Palace, Barr House, Candle Room, Indian Ocean New!
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For those who know India well, it is somehow comforting to arrive in Delhi, see a cow nonchalantly walking in the middle of the road, note the mayhem of traffic, and reminisce about the noise, confusion and Indian-ness of it all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sri Lanka, Fort Cochin, Sun House, Four Seasons, Siolim House, Malabar House, Kahanda Kanda, Nilaya Hermitage, Sonar Bangla, Soneva Fushi, Coconut Lagoon, Dutch House, Elephant Corridor, Villa Mahotti Walauwa, Arabian Sea, Durbar Hall, Geoffrey Bawa, New Delhi, Park Hyatt, Pousada Tauma, Republic of Maldives, Samode Palace, Barr House, Candle Room, Indian Ocean New!
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- Sri Lanka (British Documents on the End of Empire) (Pt. 1) by HMSO on page 237, and Back Matter
- Latin America (Technological Transformation in the Third World Series ; Volume 3) by Surendra J. Patel in Back Matter
- The Reefs of Taprobane by Arthur C. Clarke on page 213
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