Hotel lobbies and lounges : the architecture of professional hospitality / edited by Tom Avermaete and Anne Massey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; Hotel Lobbies andLounges; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Introduction --
Hotel lobbies: anonymous domesticity andpublic discretion; 01 Beyond the lobby: setting the stage for modernity- the cosmos of the hotel; 02 Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood hotel lobbies; 03 The architectonics of the hotel lobby: the norms andforms of a public-private figure; 04 The hotel lobby and local/global journeys; 05 Shifting spaces; 06 Tracing tracks: illusion and reality at work in the lobby; Case Studies. The Ritz, ParisLooking to eighteenth-century France through the lens of nineteenth-century historicism fora twentieth-century hotel lobby Mark HinchmanStrand Palace Hotel, London; Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Grand Hotel Gooiland, 1936; Hotel Le Corbusier: the extended lobby, the resident asguest and the Unité d' Habitation as hotel; Watergate Hotel; The Amsterdam Hilton Hotel: Old Amsterdam'sLittle America; SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: Arne Jacobsen, 1955-60; The war lobby of Prora: KdF Seebad on Rügen; Exploding the lobby: Hyatt Regency, Atlanta. The Viru Hotel, Tallinn: modernist in form, late socialist in contentHôtel des Thermes, Dax: Jean Nouvel and EmmanuelCattani, 1992; Hotel Lakolk, Rømø, Denmark: Friis and Moltke, 1966; Gramercy Park Hotel, New York: 2 Lexington Avenue, New York; Paramount, New York, 1990: interior design byPhilippe Starck; Hotel ll Palazzo: Venetian blind in Fukuoka; The Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal, OMA: architectureafter the crisis of the whole; CUBE Hotel, Tröpolach: an ultimate home base and stage-scape of the alpine event society; Bibliography; Index.

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. This book explores the ar.