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Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion: An Architectural and Social History

Door Elaine Denby

Categorie
Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer
#374402-KB43
Titel
Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion: An Architectural and Social History
Auteur
Denby, Elaine
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Zwolle : Waanders
Jaar van uitgave
1998
ISBN10
9040092133
ISBN13
9789040092138
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original beige cloth, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (mostly photographs) in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
Elaine Denby's magnificently illustrated history of the world's greatest hotels in the most important contribution to the subject ever published. Grand Hotels is the fruit of the many years the author has devoted to travels and visits throughout Europe, North Ameica, the Near East and the Orient, a fascinating architectural and social history that covers the 1830s to the 1930s but which also takes note of the most recent refurbishments. The railway that opened up Europe and North America demanded sumptuous hotels for every new terminus. later in the century it was the steamship companies that were to introduce travellers to the ancient cultures of Egypt, India and the Orient, where once again lavishy appointed new hotels wre available. By that time in Europe many people were seeking out th... (Lees verder)e swiss mountains for winter sports and the French or Italian Rivieras for casinos or rest-cures, while across the Atlantic the exclusive summer resorts of New England and Virginia were equally fashion.
Pagina's
304
Conditie
Goed — Name on first free endpaper.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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