Hotel: Interior Structures [Hardcover]

Eleanor Curtis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0471623768 | ISBN-13: 978-0471623762 | Edition: 1

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.

Following the success of the original hardback version published in February 2001, since which it has virtually sold out, this paperback edition brings the same inspirational and stunning visual content at an even more affordable price

Focuses on the treatment of interiors and the many options available to solve the interior design challenge on a large-scale professional level

Highlights the different styles of hotels that have emerged and how the designers have aimed to complement the very intention of their spaces through their interior design

Editorial Reviews

Review

"…for those with an interest in hotel design, this gives a good picture-led spread of top international hotels…" (Building Design, 16 May 2003) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (March 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471623768
• ISBN-13: 978-0471623762
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,898,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Photography and Detail, June 12, 2001

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This review is from: Hotel: Interior Structures (Hardcover)

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.

3.0 out of 5 stars Hmmm...almost new?, February 14, 2010

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This review is from: Hotel: Interior Structures (Paperback)

I thought this book would be in better shape, more almost new. But it is fine. Thanks