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HIP HOTELS FRANCE
Herbert Ypma PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
"His well-edited selection of the best-designed places to stay will have readers scrambling to make travel plans." — Travel & Leisure
It's no surprise that France ranks among the world's most popular tourist destinations. This large and sparsely populated country has it all—a fascinating historical legacy, a gastronomic culture that is unsurpassed,
and a tradition of good living that remains remarkably unaltered by the stresses of modern life. And France's scenery is spectacular, with mountains and marshlands, gorges and rolling countryside, and a coastline ranging
from the rugged shores of Brittany to the benign and jewel-bright playgrounds of the Mediterranean.
All this, naturally
enough, means there is an unparalleled choice of world-class places
to stay: medieval châteaux, rural farmhouses, alpine chalets, grand
city hotels, and—of course—the very latest in interior
design. Hip Hotels France presents the traveler with the most
authentically individual hotels that the country has to offer. Choose
between the ornate style of colonial Indochina or the ultrachic pared-down
touch of Christian Liaigre, a fisherman's hut on the south Atlantic
coast or the hip modernity of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation
in Marseille, long a Mecca for devotees of modernist architecture and
now partially converted into a hotel. Some hotels are established, some
virtually unknown, but every one is a unique response to the geography,
culinary culture, and design heritage of its particular location.
So whether you are an adventurer, a gourmet, or a design aficionado, this third volume in the phenomenally successful Hip Hotels series is guaranteed to lure you away to explore every corner of France.
Herbert Ypma is the founder of the award-winning magazine Interior Architecture and creator of the World Design series. |
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