New Hotel Design Quotes

“Human beings create their own images of desire and then set out in pursuit of them. These are simulacra: ideals, visions, idols. Pilgrims and travelers have a great deal in common, and unspoiled nature serves merely as a backdrop for the experiences we thirst after. The denunciation of tourism is as old as organized mass travel itself... Since then the tourism industry has been a driving force in consumer society and at the same time a symbol of its self-destructive powers.”
― Otto Riewoldt, New Hotel Design

“Ian Schrager, who remains a trendsetter in the elite sector with his Starck hotels, compares the hotel's spatial layout with a play: the lobby is the prelude, the first act of the hotel's drama, which has its finale in the individual guest rooms.”
― Otto Riewoldt, New Hotel Design