Hotel: Interior Structures - Hardcover

Curtis, Eleanor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471623768 ISBN 13: 9780471623762

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

ELEANOR CURTIS is a writer and photographer based in London. She works with a number of UK national broadsheets and various international journals. Main features include architecture, urban design and interiors. Her reportage work has included extensive coverage of the conflict in Angola since 1998 with two international photographic exhibitions. She has also worked as a photographer in Angola for Save the Children Fund UK and the United Nations World Food Programme.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471623768
• ISBN 13: 9780471623762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264