371 entries. One code each. Nothing moves.
A register of the luxury hospitality world — hotel brands, corporate portfolios, private islands, trains, yachts and branded residences. Every entry holds a permanent identifier from the day it is written, whatever happens to the volume it sits in.
The seven parts
FORMAT OF STAY, NOT GEOGRAPHYHotel Brands
Corporate Portfolios
Collections & Consortia
Single Properties & Private Islands
Yacht & Cruise Collections
Luxury Railway
Branded Residences
What an entry looks like
SPECIMENSoneva
The house that made going without shoes a luxury standard — and then spent thirty years proving the standard was about the sand, not the shoes.
READ THE ENTRY →Travellers who want a city hotel's polish will find the informality genuine and therefore inconvenient: there is no lobby to be received in, service is warm rather than ceremonial, and the sand does not stop at the threshold.
Every entry in the Library carries a paragraph like this one. It is a requirement of the editorial standard, not a matter of the writer's mood.
Three rules the register runs on
EDITORIAL STANDARDThe code outlives the structure
LHB-002 is Aman and will never be anything else. Volumes get reorganised, brands change owners, entries are withdrawn — a retired code is never reissued.
Model before geography
Houses are grouped by how they operate. Country is a field you filter on, never a chapter — which is why a Greek boutique collection sits beside a French one.
Every entry names who it is wrong for
A reference work that only praises is a brochure, and a brochure cannot help you choose between two houses that both look perfect in photographs.