Hip Hotel : Budget /

作者：  Herbert Ypma.

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简介：Hip Hotels: Budget. Doesn't that sound too good to be true? But true it is. All the ingredients that make a HIP HOTEL - fantasy, originality, style, location - are available at less than astronomical rates, if only you know where to look. No less surprising is that they are truly global in range. Urban or remote, historic or post-industrial, Sunset Boulevard or Australian outback: take your pick. These are hotels created by enthusiasts, and it shows. They include an original canal house on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, a collection of thatched huts overlooking a black-sand beach in Bali, a palace in the heart of the Marrakesh medina, and a vast converted power plant in Hamburg, its massive stilled machinery looming like sculpture over the interiors. Budget or not, style doesn't get more authentic than this. So plunge in and discover for yourself this latest fabulous - and fabulously affordable - collection of HIP HOTELS.

Hip hotels. Italy /

作者：  Herbert Ypma.

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简介："You can have the universe, if I can have Italy," said Giuseppe Verdi. This sounds generous, but Verdi knew that Italy is a universe—beautiful, diverse, and filled with the relics of two millennia of civilization. The new volume of Hip Hotelspresents amazing places to stay in destinations the length and breadth of its boot-shaped pe...   more 籲insula and islands. Herbert Ypma has ventured far beyond the familiar rolling hills of Tuscany, the postcard-perfect Amalfi Coast, or the Grand Tour destinations of Venice, Florence, and Rome, to introduce real discoveries in underexplored regions such as Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, and Le Marche. You might be inspired to visit the utterly refined Hotel Raya on the Aeolian island of Panarea, from whose all-white terraces you can watch the volcano of Stromboli spurt fiery lava into the night skies. Sicily offers medieval gems like a converted Franciscan monastery in Taormina, and Castello di Falconara, a Norman castle on the beach. At the opposite end of the country, in the ultra-stylish ski town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, is the Hotel de la Poste, run today by the same family as when Hemingway used to drive up from Venice in the early 1930s. If the beach and night life of the Adriatic coast are more your scene, then fashion designer Alberta Ferretti's Carducci 76 makes an appealing base. Or enjoy the peace and splendor of Villa Feltrinelli on the shores of Lake Garda, a stately neogothic property that recently has been revamped and restored by a San Francisco-based design firm. Many hotels are a complete surprise: ancient cave-dwellings in the eroded rocky landscape of Basilicata, or the trulli of Puglia, centuries-old igloo-like constructions with conical slate roofs. And whether cave, abbey, olive mill, fishing hut, or beachside palazzo, every one of these unique hotels is true to its locale in its architecture, design, and gastronomy. 500 photographs, 400 in color.   ?less

Hip Hotel : USA /

作者：  Herbert Ypma.

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简介：For Hip Hotels USA, Herbert Ypma has taken to the road, traveling the length and breadth of the land in search of Highly Individual Places to stay. Every hip hotel is uniquely characterful. It is timelessly stylish; attuned to its location in design, ethos, and cuisine; and achieves that subtle balance between attentiveness and discretion...   more 籺hat marks the best of modern service. With a choice as immense and varied as the country itself, and an arbiter as seasoned as Ypma, Hip Hotels USAis definitive. The natural magnificence of the United States is stupendous, and many of these hotels invite you to immerse yourself in wilderness. Restore your perspective in a spectacular private treehouse fifty feet up a giant cedar in the heart of Mount Rainier National Park, or come back to earth in your own lakeside cabin in Wisconsin designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Experience Old World gentility in the Renaissance palazzo of Wheatleigh, amid the steeples and clapboard farmhouses of New England, where an immaculate makeover has restored the grace and understated privilege of the world of Edith Wharton (and added all the discreet modern luxuries you might require). Or live out your Rat Pack fantasies as you lounge poolside with a cocktail surrounded by mid-century modern classics—furniture by Bertoia, Eames, Saarinen—in an authentic 1950s motel in Palm Springs. Coast to coast, sea to shining sea, the new Hip Hotelsis a sensation. 417 illustrations, 345 in color.   ?less

Hip hotels. Ski /

作者：  Herbert Ypma.

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简介：The newest Hip Hotels volume focuses on winter sports and stylish places to stay. With ever more people enjoying the thrill and the spectacle of the mountains, the choice of ski hotels has become enormous, yet they are overwhelmingly mediocre. Now Herbert Ypma proves that there are alternatives to the tired formulae of the typical resort hotel, no matter what your destination might be. PlumpJack in Squaw Valley, California, is a fantasy of burnished metal and heraldic style: an unlikely eclectic success. Aspen Meadows is an unexpected Bauhaus gem at the foot of Colorado鈥檚 finest ski slopes. Or maybe you鈥檒l prefer the romantic haven of Sundance, Robert Redford鈥檚 unspoiled Utah retreat, where you can unwind in your own mountain cottage after a long day on the slopes. The recently renovated Hotel les Dromonts in the French Alps is a wonder of sixties organic style in a building shaped like a fir cone. Or experience the views from the Hotel Ancora in Cortina d鈥橝mpezzo, one of the world鈥檚 original ski resorts, amid the jagged peaks of Italy鈥檚 Dolomite Alps. Remote lodge in the Canadian Rockies or Wild West authenticity, alpine log cabin or sleek contemporary style -- the possibilities are amazing. Hip Hotels: Ski adds a whole new dimension to adventures in the snow.