Herbert Ypma Boeken

The latest 'Hip Hotels' features 40 hotels across six continents, blending international design with a strong respect for local traditions, landscapes, and ecology.

A visually stunning compilation of modern Indian design and architecture.

Goes beyond familiar tourist sites to explore such regions as Campania, Puglia, Basilicat, and Le Marche, offering rich, detailed descriptions of the natural, cultural, and historical offerings available throughout the country and its islands. Original.

"Today's discerning travelers are not merely looking for the best accommodations and eateries, they're seeking a unique experience. In this age of low-cost flights and easy travel, sponsored search results and thousands of indistinguishable reviews, how do you avoid the crowds and find the hidden gems? Tried-and-true knowledge from an authority on the ground is what makes the difference between a good experience and a truly memorable one. In this new guide to Italy, travel expert Herbert Ypma surprises and delights with his unparalleled eye for detail and his unerring ability to separate the exceptional from the mundane. The experiences Ypma maps out across the length and breadth of Italy include the best places to stay, eclectic adventures, legendary places to eat, and historical sites to visit enhanced by nuggets of fascinating history. Brimming with beautiful new photography of every location, as well as hand-drawn maps and illustrations, this book visits all of Italy's best-loved regions, including Sicily, Naples, the Aeolian Islands, the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Matera, Puglia, Rome, Lazio, Umbria, Sardinia, Florence, Tuscany, Milan, Lake Como, Verona, and Venice. Combined with Ypma's insightful text, New Map Italy is as unique, authentic, and distinctive as Italy itself." --Amazon.com

Fantasies, originality, style, locationall the ingredients that make a Hip Hotelare available at economical rates, if only you know where to look. This collection, like all Hip Hotel books, is truly global in range. Urban or remote, historic or post-industrial, Sunset Boulevard or Australian outback: the experience is yours to choose. The featured hotels include a vast, converted power plant in Hamburg, a collection of thatched huts overlooking a black-sand beach in Bali, a palace in the heart of the Marrakesh medina, and an original canal house on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Budget or not, style doesn't get more authentic than this. Even if money is no object, every one of these hotels offers the priceless, unique experience that defines a Hip Hotel. With 500 illustrations, 400 in color.

Pictorial works of hotels in France with telephone, address and fax numbers

Drawing on more than twenty years of experience travelling the globe, the author presents a handpicked selection of thirty of the interesting undiscovered hotels, guesthouses and resorts in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Following New Map Italy, the second book in Herbert Ypma's series is the ultimate visual guide to to the finest hotels and experiences France has to offer.

The ultimate guide to the world's most special places to stay, from the author of the best-selling Hip Hotels series—featuring eighty remarkable destinations, many new to this book.Herbert Ypma, creator of a whole new genre of style and travel books, has selected a galaxy of destination hotels that make travel dreams become reality. Every one is, in every sense, a Highly Individual Place.This large-format, worldwide guide is divided into six sections—Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and South America—each with its own introduction and atmospheric historical map. You will be tempted, among a host of other alluring possibilities, by a stay in a classic Italian palazzo with a romantic rose garden, a magnificent mud Casbah set in a lush oasis, a traditional Japanese inn with a Zen ambience, a contemporary Tasmanian lodge overlooking idyllic turquoise waters, a rugged log cabin in the heart of the American Wild West, and an elegant colonial-style ranch set in acres of horse-riding country.Featuring over 1,000 of Ypma's beautiful color photographs, this spectacular book will inspire and delight travelers everywhere.

From personal treasures found in the famous Paris flea markets to beautiful objects with grander origins, today's designers are using the found object as a means of harnessing France's past to modern tastes. This book looks at contemporary design inspired by styles as diverse as Neo-classicism, Napoleon's Empire style and Art Deco.