Description

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Rooms with a view: A collection of 100 heavenly hideaways When traveling for business, we often prefer hotel rooms of the same type in London, Paris, or Shanghai. It's just more convenient. A different set of rules applies when we search for a place to celebrate a special family holiday, a weekend with a new lover, or a few days of blissful solitude with some great books. Suddenly a balcony with postcard- worthy views counts more than the number of TV channels, a sumptuous bed with a heavenly mattress and hand-ironed linens more than Wi-Fi connection in every nook and cranny of the hotel building.

That's where this new TASCHEN collection comes in. A compilation of 100 hotels, in countries from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, the two volumes make it a breeze to choose where to relax next. The gamut runs from dream castles like Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda to the glass-fronted hipster chic of Juvet Hotel in Norway; from Mediterranean pensiones with nostalgic flair and moderate rates to the pricey-yet-worthy desert glamour of Amangiri resort in Utah's canyon country. Even dedicated web scouts will be tempted by this book to cuddle up on their sofa for a round of paper traveling. While fans of interior design might use it as an inspiring global selection of splendid sofas, beds, lights, and bathroom features.

• 100 very special hotels and guesthouses all over the world
• From bed & breakfast basic to six-star luxurious
• Selected by TASCHEN's style and travel department according to criteria like stylistic harmony, location, service, and cost-performance ratio
• Each hotel comes with a reader-friendly chart listing the number of rooms, current prices, type of cuisine, amenities, plus the all important X-factor: the feature that makes staying there a truly unique experience
• The full scope of contemporary travel in two neat volumes, coffee table-sized and with countless glossy photographs

Text in English, French, and German

About the Author

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The editor:

A native Austrian, Margit J. Mayer started her journalism career in 1983 atWIENER magazine in Vienna. Focusing early on fashion and contemporary culture, she wrote and edited for major German magazines likeMannerVogue, Vogue, GQ, ELLE, and Stern. As editor in chief of AD Architectural Digest Germany from 2000 to 2011, Mayer and her team chronicled the rise of "New Berlin" with its close ties to the art scene. After establishing TASCHEN's Berlin office in 2011, she contributed to TASCHEN Magazine and, until summer 2013, headed the publishing house's Style & Travel section. She currently lives in an apartment from 1911 which she decorated "after photos and art from that year."