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Stories

363
Stories
12
Periods
400
People

What happened once, and was told afterwards.

BEFORE 1700
Inns, tea houses and taverns that were old before hospitality was a trade.
21 stories
Fujiwara Mahito
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The first restaurants, the first spas, the first houses that expected to be paid for comfort.
15 stories
Caffè Florian · Maison Ruinart · Champagne Taittinger
1800 TO 1849
Steam, the grand tour, and the beginnings of the hotel as a public building.
11 stories
Mercado de San Miguel · Champagne Pommery · Cova
1850 TO 1879
The palace hotel arrives, and with it the idea that a guest might be a stranger.
28 stories
Scott's · Mariage Frères · Alexander Seiler I and the Seiler Hotel Dynasty of Zermatt
1880 TO 1899
Electric light, the lift, the private bathroom — and the men who put their names on them.
20 stories
Café Sperl · Peck · Café Slavia
1900 TO 1919
The golden age at its height, and the war that closed it.
24 stories
Le Train Bleu · The Fustinoni Family
1920 TO 1949
Between the wars: the bar becomes an institution, and then a refuge.
24 stories
Tsukiji Outer Market · Dave Varty
1950 TO 1969
Aviation, the resort, and the first hotels built for people who arrived by air.
39 stories
Souq Waqif · Antonio Sersale · Charles Forte
1970 TO 1989
The brand, the chain, and the founders who refused both.
51 stories
Al Bicerin · Auguste Escoffier · Rudolf Graf von Schönburg
THE 1990S
Design hotels, the members club, and hospitality discovering it could have a point of view.
45 stories
André Balazs · Elisabeth Gürtler
THE 2000S
Scale, private equity, and the houses that stayed small on purpose.
38 stories
Niko Romito · Paul Canarelli · Tao Group Hospitality
2010 TO NOW
The present tense — still being decided, and recorded here as it is told.
47 stories
Mariella Avino · Nusr-Et

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Recorded since 2026-09-08. Entries published before that date carry no publication date and are not listed here: the Library does not know when they went up and will not guess.