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The Christmas List:
21st Century Hotel by Graham Vickers
It’s another snazzy, glossy book on snazzy, glossy hotels. ‘ The 21st century has seen the emergence of new trends in hotel design, which at one extreme increasingly blur the border between lodging, lifestyle, and living theatre, and at the other seek to reinvent the more discreet manners and style of the grand hotels of the late nineteenth century. This visually exciting volume profiles no fewer than thirty-seven of the world’s most noteworthy new hotels, from the lavishly appointed Ritz-Carlton Miami to a Quebec hotel constructed entirely of snow and ice.’ Snazzy.
$40 from http://www.amazon.com/ Publisher: Abbeville Press (May 5, 2005)