Hotel Lobbies and Lounges

This volume in the Interior Architecture series explores the architectural significance of hotels throughout history and how their material construction has reflected and facilitated the social and cultural practices for which they are renowned.

Including case studies addressing contemporary developments in hotel planning and design, and illustrated throughout, this volume is an innovative and insightful contribution to architectural and interior design literature.

Introduction: Hotel Lobbies: Anonymous Domesticity and Public Discretion 1. Beyond the Lobby: Setting the Stage for Modernity - The Cosmos of the Hotel 2. Learning from Los Angeles: Hollywood Hotel Lobbies 3. The Architectonics of the Hotel Lobby: The Norms and Forms of a Public-Private Figure 4. The Hotel Lobby and Local/Global Journeys 5. Shifting Spaces 6. Tracing Tacks: Illusion and Reality at Work in the Lobby Case Studies 1. Hotel Ritz 2. Strand Palace Hotel 3. Imperial Hotel 4. Hotel Gooiland 5. Hotel Le Corbusier 6. Watergate Hotel 7. Hilton Hotel 8. SAS Hotel 9. KdF Prora 10. Hyatt Regency Hotel 11. Viru Hotel 12. Hotel des Thermes 13. Hotel Lakolk 14. Gramercy Park Hotel 15. Hotel Paramount 16. Hotel Il Palazzo 17. Hotel Seaterminal 18. Cube Hotels