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Posted in Dutch Design, History, Netherlands on May 29th, 2007
December 28, 2004
Launch of ABN AMRO 2
Photo © Happy Hotelier
Going back in time to December 28, 2004:
My friend Bas had wiped off the snow from ABN AMRO 2’s name, later nicknamed White Betty, just prior to its launch.
Bas was responsible for the styling of the two ABN AMRO sponsored sailing boats and the styling of [...]
The Ambassador’s Last stand is a blog about the last days of the famous LA Ambassador Hotel.
They still have to update with the actual demolition of the hotel which was all over the news recently.
I was wrong: The demolition I was referring to, was a Las Vegas Hotel
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Posted in Design, Dutch Design, History, Luxury, Netherlands, The Hague, Wining and Dining on Feb 18th, 2007
Dutch have a name to lose in Design.
I’ll start the series Dutch Design with FG Stijl. The F comes from Finegan and the G from Glintmeijer.
Colin Finnegan (1968), a British native with a British degree in interior design, lives and works in Amsterdam for over 16 years and formed a partnership with Gerard Glintmeijer in [...]
The news drew my attention, because a lawyer friend of mine once had given a very humoristic presentation about it and because during the Sixties and Seventies the Brits and the Dutch shared a history of free Radio and even free TV stations on board of ships, platforms and other constructions outside territorial waters which [...]
Posted in Been There, Germany, History, Hoteliers on Jan 31st, 2007
I am back from the white slopes in Switzerland and time for a tip.
When we drive to Switzerland we frequently make a stopover at Hotel Sonne (the Sun Hotel) in the very center of Offenburg.
Offenburg is next to the Motorway (Autobahn) Frankfurt - Basel, between Baden Baden and Freiburg. It is also easy to reach [...]
Posted in Austria, Been There, History, Luxury, Suite Talk on Jan 1st, 2007
You have suites with a view, but at the Palais Coburg Hotel Residenz in Vienna you can have a suite with a view and a safe in the vault.
Palais Coburg was built in the period 1840-45 by Duke Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1785-1851) on the Braunbastei ['Brown Bastion'] - a part [...]
Posted in Austria, Been There, History, Luxury on Nov 27th, 2006
On my recent trip to Vienna I was able to take this photo of Schloss Fuschl as I remembered it. My DW and I stayed once in the mid eighties in suite 101 (the Sissi Suite) which has a magnificent view over Lake Fuschl that is located 20 km east of Salzburg in Austria.
Actually that [...]
Posted in Been There, Design, Germany, History, Hoteliers, The Making of on Oct 19th, 2006
Recently, I stayed a couple of days in »Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin with a bunch (about 20) of babyboomers.
It was a lot of fun having some members of the group remembering their backpacking and youth hostel (youthstel?) days (waaay back!) as the down to earth design of the rooms forced some of us [...]
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