Bar Style: Hotels and Members' Clubs (Interior Angles) - Hardcover

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Howard Watson gained a degree at the University of York and a postgraduate diploma in publishing before becoming an editor and writer specialising in the arts and culture. He has contributed to many publications, including Architectural Design, and edited a wide range of titles on architecture, art and theatre.

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Bar Style charts the glamorous design renaissance of hotel bars and members' clubs and the way their cutting-edge interiors have helped forge a new social culture that is a far cry from traditional bars and pubs. Until recently dominated by sexless corporate design and traditional stuffiness, it is hotel and members' bars that have responded to a backlash against the homogeneity of the high street with interiors of great beauty, style and wit. As this book reveals, hotel bars and members' clubs are now the playground for innovative designers, sophisticated celebrities and ultra-cool urbanites.
 
The revolution in 'exclusive' bars began with the birth of the Groucho and Ian Schrager's boutique hotels. There is now a stunning range of intimate, ground-breaking bars - even within traditional hotels - that offer the fashion-savvy, post-club generation somewhere to rest its Manolo Blahniks. There is nowhere better to see and be seen, and the media has a frenzied love of these cool, fashionable bars. However, the designs of Starck, Collins, Jiricna, Conran and Chipperfield rise above the zeitgeist: the interiors instil a quality of aesthetic experience that will endure far longer than the celebrity of some of the customers.

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Beautifully designed, this title presents 40 different projects, including bars by some of the world's leading architects and designers:

Philippe Starck: Hudson Bar, Hudson, New York.

David Collins: The Blue Bar, the Berkeley. London.

Fabio Novembre: UNA Lounge, UNA Hotel Vittoria , Florence.

Matteo Thun: Fusion, SIDE, Hamburg.

Rafael & Diana Viñoly: Bungalow 8, New York.

Conran & Partners: Roppongi Hills Club, Tokyo.

llse Crawford: Soho House New York.

Melissa North Chassay/David Bentheim: the Groucho Club, London.

'Interior Angles' is a new series of interior design books from Wiley-Academy. Each title is a highly illustrated volume combining brief, accessible texts and lavish photography with explanatory captions and useful listings, giving a vivid and dynamic picture of current trends in a particular interior type across the globe.