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WATKIN, DAVID; MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, HUGH; REMY, PIERRE_JEAN; GRENDEL, FREDERIC. - Grand Hotel The Golden Age of Palace Hotels and Architectural and Social History. Introduction by Jean D'Ormesson.

Title: Grand Hotel The Golden Age of Palace Hotels and Architectural and Social History. Introduction by Jean D'Ormesson.
Description: First Edition; Roy. 4to; pp. 272; illustrated frontispiece and title page, text illustrated with 470 photographs, 236 in full colour, 123 in duotone and 110 in b/w., index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in black on spine and front board, dustjacket, very good copy. London; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; 1984. In the hundred-year span 1830-1930 a style was created that is encapsulated and enhanced in this book. All the romance and glamour of great hotels of Europe and America are treated here for the first time in the light of social and archtectual history.

Keywords: architecture art buildings hotels miscellaneous

Price: AUD 50.00 = appr. US$ 34.59 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 112448