Hip Hotels USA [Paperback]

Herbert Ypma (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hip Hotels | Publication Date: September 29, 2003

For "Hip Hotels: USA", Herbert Ypma has taken to the road, travelling the length and breadth of that vast land in search of Highly Individual Places to stay. Every HIP hotel has its own unique character. It is timelessly stylish, it is attuned to its location in design, ethos and cuisine, and it achieves that subtle balance between attentiveness and discretion that marks the best of modern service. The natural magnificence of the US is stupendous. Many of these hotels invite you to immerse yourself in wilderness. Restore your perspective in a spectacular private treehouse 50 feet up a giant cedar in the heart of Mount Rainier National Park, or come back to earth in your own lakeside cabin in Wisconsin designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Experience Old World gentility in the Renaissance palazzo of Wheatleigh, amid the steeples and clapboard farmhouses of New England, where an immaculate makeover has restored the grace and understated privilege of the world of Edith Wharton (but added all the discreet modern luxuries you might mention). Or live out your Rat Pack fantasies as you lounge poolside with a cocktail surrounded by mid-century modern classics - furniture by Bertoia, Eames, Saarinen - in an authentic 1950s motel in Palm Springs.

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[E]nough to restore even the most jaded traveler's appetite for originality and personality in hotel design. -- Weddingbells, Fall/Winter 2002

About the Author

By the time writer and photographer Herbert Ypma was thirteen, he had been to every state in the USA bar Alaska and Hawaii; his enthusiasm for the country remains undiminished.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson (September 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500284040
• ISBN-13: 978-0500284049
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Question, January 16, 2010

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This review is from: Hip Hotels USA (Paperback)

I saw several of this series at a resort. I am familiar with several unique, small hotels in NY that would seem to qualify. They were not in the NY book (not even mentioned). Looking at the hotels that were, it struck me that the NY book at least looked like a big ad for hotels wanting to buy space. If so, the author should tell us. Additionally, the photography is fairly awful--blocked shadows, hodge-podge compositions, and a general mishmash. There are good travel books ... I'll pass on this series.