Some of my favorite hotels tend to be scattered across the globe and here are some represented in Art form. First is the Imperial in Delhi with the wonderfully dressed doorman and their lovely old chauffeur car waiting at the hotel entrance..
Imperial Dehli
The above image inspired by an old advertisement for the hotel.
This is another Imperial Hotel but located in Vienna on Karntner Strasse and is possibly my absolute favorite in Europe – there again I love Vienna so perhaps I’m biased. The Karntner is one of the major inner Ring roads of the city and a great location for the Opera and the center.
Imperial Hotel - Vienna
Then of course I could not leave out the marvelous old grand lady of hotels, Raffles, shown here as it was in the early twentieth century. It is shown here in a colorist impressionist style – the only hotel for me when in Singapore. This picture is a little unusual in that Beach Road actually runs right across the entrance and this view -
Raffles circa 1910?
was from the sea. A viewpoint that actually can’t be repeated, when Beach Road was on the sea and today the sea is long gone, being reclaimed land for many years now.
So just some pictorials of three of my favorite hotels in the world – each brings back many memories and each still wonderful to visit.
