In the decades following the Second World War, international travel was transformed by the advent of the jetliner. Complementing the world-wide development of high-speed air services, new luxury hotels were built which in terms of scale, technology and glamorous facilities were arguably among the finest achievements of international modernism.
Contextualising and analysing a wide variety of hotels, some designed by prominent and critically acclaimed modern architects and others by less well known practitioners, this book provides fresh perspectives on the practice and reception of modernism in architecture and interior design in a diversity of geographical and cultural contexts.