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Hotel Lobbies and Lounges The Architecture of Professional Hospitality

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ISBN-10: 0415496535

ISBN-13: 9780415496537

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tom Avermaete, Anne Massey, Anne Massey

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This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture. Hotels occupy a particular place in popular imagination. As a place of exclusive sociability and bohemian misery, a site of crime and murder and as a hiding place for illicit liaison, the hotel has embodied the dynamism of the metropolis since the eighteenth century. Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The Architecture of Professional Hospitalityexplores the architectural significance of hotels throughout history and how their material…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Tom Avermaete is Associate Professor of Architecture at the TU Delft (Netherlands) with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. Tom is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005)  and is an editor of OASE Architectural Journal. He is also an initiator of the research and exhibition project In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009, Marseille 2013).Anne Massey is Professor of Design History at Kingston University and Deputy Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC). Anne has…    

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Notes on contributors
Introduction - Hotel lobbies: anonymous domesticity and public discretion
Beyond the lobby: setting the stage for modernity - the cosmos of the hotel
Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood hotel lobbies
The architectonics of the hotel lobby: the norms and forms of a public-private figure
The hotel lobby and local/global journeys
Shifting spaces
Tracing tracks: illusion and reality at work in the lobby
Case studies
The Ritz, Paris: looking to eighteenth-century France through the lens of nineteenth-century historicism for a twentieth-century hotel lobby
Strand Palace Hotel, London
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
Grand Hotel Gooiland, 1936
Hotel Le Corbusier: the extended lobby, the resident as guest and the Unit� d'Habitation as hotel
Watergate Hotel
The Amsterdam Hilton Hotel: Old Amsterdam's Little America
SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: Arne Jacobsen, 1955-60
The war lobby of Prora: KdF Seebad on R�gen
Exploding the lobby: Hyatt Regency, Atlanta
The Viru Hotel, Tallinn: modernist in form, late socialist in content
H�tel des Thermes, Dax: Jean Nouvel and Emmanuel Cattani, 1992
Hotel Lakolk, R�m�, Denmark: Friis and Moltke, 1966
Gramercy Park Hotel, New York: 2 Lexington Avenue, New York
Paramount, New York, 1990: interior design
Hotel II Palazzo: Venetian blind in Fukuoka
The Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal, OMA: architecture after the crisis of the whole
CUBE Hotel, Tr�polach: an ultimate home base and stage-scape of the alpine event society
Bibliography
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