Dear Friend of The Most Famous Hotels in the World;
Winter continues to be as busy as last year! We have just brought out St. Regis Grand Hotel Rome (below), following our last year's bestseller HOTEL METROPOLE HANOI, GRAND HOTEL EUROPE ST. PETERSBURG, HOTEL SACHER WIEN (below), the Hungarian and the new English version of GRAND HOTEL ROYAL BUDAPEST and the long time bestseller CAFÉ CENTRAL TREASURY, VIENNA.
January 2008:
ST. REGIS GRAND HOTEL ROME
In 1894 César Ritz opened the Grand Hotel as the most elegant hotel of Italy.
Auguste Escoffier was its first chef. Diplomats, heads of state and royalty shared tables at lavish banquets and occupied its splendidly appointed suites and rooms. Lina Cavalieri, a flower girl working there, became one of the greatest opera stars of her days. The King of Spain spent the last years of his life in his suite there. In 1945, the seeds of modern Italy were sown at the Grand Hotel.
Fiat tycoon Giovanni Agnelli maintained a year round apartment and the stars of Hollywood enjoy it as their preferred retreat in the eternal city. In short: the St Regis is one of the cultural, social, economical and political revolving points of Italy.
This is the book.
The foundation of St. Regis - John Jacob Astor, the richest man who died on the Titanic.
All Roads lead to Rome: - read the second chapter of the book
Number one bestseller December/January:
HOTEL SACHER WIEN
The Hotel Sacher is a synonym for Vienna, just like St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Prater with its giant Ferry Wheel, the Lipizzan horses or the Castle of Schönbrunn. For travelling visitors it is one of the most famous hotels in the world, elegant, stylish – a symbol of the term "Gemutlichkeit", this Austrian mixture of snug and cosy.
For Viennese it is the home of two of the best restaurants of the city. For all of them it is the birthplace of the most famous cake in the world, the original Sacher-Torte.
In 1832 for the first time the genius chef Franz Sacher - one of the greatest masters of the kitchen of his time - had glazed ‘his’ cake with the dark brown chocolate mix that gave the creation this heavenly taste and distinctive look. Ever since millions of cakes have left the Hotel Sacher. In 1876 his son Eduard opened this hotel. Anna Sacher, his widow, became a legend in her own right. The Gürtler family saved it in 1934 and made it the world class hotel we know today.
This book tells the stories, distinguishing professionally between legends and truth.
This is the book.
Preview Spring 2008
THE ORIENTAL BANGKOK (THAILAND)
HOTEL RITZ MADRID (SPAIN)
HOTEL EXCELSIOR ROME (ITALY)
SCHLOSS VELDEN (AUSTRIA)
HOTEL METROPOLE HANOI (VIETNAM)
