By Aric Chen, Michael Adams
Let the world’s leading designers of boutique hotels reveal how hospitality design is related to residential design. Hospitality showcases the work of architect Stephen B. Jacobs, noted for his groundbreaking hotel work, and Andi Pepper, the noted interior designer. The Library, The Giraffe, and the Gansevoort, among other hip hotels, are shown in full-color photos accompanied by floor plans and ...

By J. Peter Clark
Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated. From initiation of major capital requests to legal design requirements to project management and plant operations, food engineers and scientists must understand the myriad of requirements and responsibilities o...

By Silvio San Pietro
Today’s premier hotels have evolved into complex organisms that prompt a variety of different ways of addressing the rising expectations of the clientele, and each new design seeks to establish a unique figurative and semantic image. The interiors presented in this book offer a broad and complex panorama in which projects that reinterpret the idea of luxury coexist with others that elaborate enti...

By Montse Borras
Hotel owners and designers recognize that the range of style options now available to appeal to hotel customers is not only endless but that creativity and distinction in this area of the hotel business is essential to success. Everyday, hotel owners give more and more freedom to today's most recognized architects and designers to create looks that are unique and make a personal statement about t...

By Guy Dittrich
High-end hotels have always been the setting for style and fantasy, a venue to see and be seen. This volume explores a relatively new trend, where major fashion houses take over the running of upscale hostelries. With every detail coordinated, from bed linens, to décor, china and glassware, the overall effect is of a chic jewel box, where every piece shines. We get a peek at glamorous hotels conc...

By Howard Watson
Hotels have become the fulcrum for innovation in architecture and design. For the first time, Hotel Revolution draws together the new concepts of luxury that are germane to 21st century life, exploring the very best recent designs that leave the now diluted concept of the boutique hotel in their wake. The way we use time, space and natural resources is undergoing a revolution that has given birth...

By Anja Llorella
A follow up to New Hotels, this new book continues to investigate the progressively more personalized approach in modern hotel design. Among the most interesting challenges for any architect or designer, hotel design invoves creating environments that simultaneously explore new sensibilities, apply the latest technology to design, supply ample space, and convey a strong character.

The modern hotel not only offers a place to sleep, but, through its design, amenities and sense of theater, it also provides its guests with the ultimate escapist experience. This book combines architecture, interior design, photography, film, and works of art to show just how varied and dynamic international hotels can be today.

By Jacques Lévy-Bonvin
The huge potential of technology that makes retrofits as easy as possible! That is the aim of this book. Decision makers less intimidated with modern technologies would be able to ask the right and pertinent questions to their counterparts - Archidects, consultants, contractors- before making their choice, before investing for technical and sometime vital equipment for either refurbishment of new...

By Martin Nicholas Kunz
Outstanding buildings and stylish surroundings promote fitness and health in this selection of wellness hotels. The author has selected fascinating addresses which, not only offer an attractive spectrum of wellness activities, but also the finest architecture and design. Thus it is an unusual selection as most current examples orient themselves less towards aesthetically pleasing and holistic pla...