Jungle Luxe: Indigenous-Style Hotel and Remote Resort Design Around the World [Paperback]

Justin Henderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2, 2002

This unique book celebrates the luxury and romance of tropical resorts and "eco-lodges" from around the world. Inspired by indigenous architecture, environmentalism, and remote, incredibly beautiful natural settings, these small hotels and lodges represent a new wave in hospitality design. The projects featured, from the Caribbean, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Bali, Australia, and Polynesia are original pieces of architecture reflecting indigenous building methods and small scale, site sensitive design.

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About the Author

Justin Henderson is a freelance writer specializing in architecture, interior design, and travel writing. He served as a senior and contributing editor to Interiors magazine for ten years, and has contributed articles to numerous design and general interest publications, including Metropolitan Home, the New York Times magazine, the Village Voice, Architecture, Interior Design, and Metropolis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers; 2 edition (March 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564968707
• ISBN-13: 978-1564968708
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,860,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin here. I've been writing all kinds of books for a long time now, through years in LA growing up, then the 80s in New York, the 90s and 00s in Seattle, and now, here in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. I live here with my beautiful wife, Donna Day, and our smart, charming, princess of a daughter Jade. I do a lot of surfing these days, and watch the tropical birds in the mango trees across the vacant lot.

When I was in New York, I worked as an architectural journalist, and eventually wrote a bunch of books about interior design and architecture. I also did some traveling as a journalist, and it was on one of those trips that I found the inspiration for Lucy Ripken, my amateur mystery sleuth. Lucy is a hybrid of Donna and me, a semi-tough-talking contemporary "broad" with a heart of gold and a loft in SoHo. Not unlike the one Donna and I lived in until we fled for the less stressful environs of Seattle in 1991. In Seattle I kept on writing all kinds of books, and as was my habit, hanging around music venues. Eventually that turned into another book, called Grunge Seattle, a kind of cultural travel guide to Seattle in the early 90s.

After the first Lucy Ripken, I wrote six more. They are all available at Amazon, as are the architecture and design books. These days I spend a lot of time riding waves, and writing about surfing among other things. You can check out my surfing column here: http://www.elsayulero.com/channel/44/stories. And the books are all sitting on the electronic shelf. Have a look. See you in the waves.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exotic travel & Architecture book, inpirational, June 12, 2001

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Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jungle Luxe : Indigenous-Style Hotel and Remote Resort Design Around the World (Hardcover)

An exotic travel book and an exotic architecture book in one. Even though I am not a hotel or resort designer, nor am I actively searching for a vacation spot, this book was ideal for me since I was looking to create the open, breezy, jungle feel of these tropical spaces in my own home.

Over twenty different resorts are detailed with numerous photos of each as well as information on design principles, materials used, interior design and amenities. There is also a people and places section give information on the architect, owner, and the resort's history. Sixteen others are contained on single pages with a few small photos and text on the layout and design.

I love the vibrant colors and spacious feel of the Hotel Bel Air Costa Careyes. I also like the Hotel Salto Chico with its abundance of huge windows and the Hotel Bora Bora that has all its bungalows on stilts over the water. Since one day I hope to live in a dome home I love circular layout plan provide by the Banyan Tree Maldives.

I like it that the book features resorts that are have taken steps to be environmentally friendly. In case you would like to visit some of these beautiful places there is a map showing where each is located. Contact information including phone, website and email for each is also here.

This book takes you on a journey through the world to exotic locations. It is great for people looking for exciting travel destinations or for building and décor ideas for their own homes.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tropical Travel, May 27, 2004

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This review is from: Jungle Luxe : Indigenous-Style Hotel and Remote Resort Design Around the World (Hardcover)

A nice book with information on a variety of tropical travel resorts. The photos are great, but too small and info informative. A great idea that could have been executed better. Wonder if they were saving on printing costs since the pictures are so small. Nevertheless, I purchased a copy when it was a bargain book so I don't feel cheated as I do enjoy the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good places but lack of content and small pictures., May 7, 2007

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D. Fernandez "FL, USA" (FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jungle Luxe : Indigenous-Style Hotel and Remote Resort Design Around the World (Hardcover)

Please read the reviews before buying this book since you might get or not what you are looking for.

In my opinion the pictures selected are not bad at all but more than half of them are too small. You'll even find a blank page with a 2" x 2" picture on the upright corner, that's bad since the page is not even populated with content about the picture. It's a global tour of some of the trendiest resorts in the globe but once again poorly presented in terms of content and sizes of the pictures selected. When the pictures are not small then it's the angle selected that doesn't give us a whole idea of the space. The only value that I found was the list of locations that could then be visit by internet for more details. I'm giving it 3 out 5 starts since despite all the cons it was not expensive.