Live in a Luxury Hotel Not in a House - The Dream Of The Decade

More than forty years after the building of astaff on call."" (Tracy Hoffman, Financial Times)
skyscraper hotel in one of the world's capitals comesHotel-living Names:
a novel about hotel living: "The Dream of the Decade -Geri Halliwell - The Lanesborough, London
The London Novels" by Afshin Rattansi, former BBCBobby Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic -
Today Programme Producer.Claridge's, London
The location of novel is the London Hilton skyscraper inRuud Gullit - Malmaison, London
Park Lane, finished in 1963 and designed by William B.Chris Evans - Langham Hilton, London
Tabler Architects. The protagonist, a 1980sRichard Harris - Savoy, London
working-class-man made-good is a millionaire - butRupert Murdoch's courtship with Wendi Deng - The
what about others who have chosen to live in hotelsMercer Hotel, New York
instead of buying property?Ken Hom - The Dorchester, London
In New York: The Carlyle - "Though hotel residentsPeter Sellers and Britt Ekland; Richard Burton and Liz
come in varied shapes, sizes and ages, the populationTaylor - The
tends to skew older and toward a high tax bracket,Dorchester, London.
said Marcie Lieberman, hotel manager at The Carlyle.Coco Chanel - Ritz, Paris
"It's usually an upper-echelon person. People who haveMarlene Dietrich - Hotel Lancaster, Paris
gotten used to a certain convenience and who likeGreta Garbo, - Fairmont Miramar, Los Angeles
living in an environment where those things areHoward Hughes - Desert Inn, Las Vegas
available," she said.Salvador Dali - Hotel Meurice, Paris
Combine that with the right amount of pampering, andPeter Bogdanovich - Stanhope Hotel, New York
you've got the answer to a hotel dweller's prayers - allClaude Monet - Savoy, London
ending in amenity. The Ritz-Carlton on Central ParkCate Blanchett - Covent Garden Hotel, London
South, for example, offers inclusive and a la carteChristina Ricci - Covent Garden Hotel, London
services for any situation from wanting a massage toDiane Von Furstenberg - Carlyle, New York
needing diamonds at a moment's notice." (DanielFrank Sinatra - The Waldorf Towers, New York
Bubbeo, Newsday)Cole Porter - The Waldorf Towers, New York
In London: "John Petch, sales director of boutique hotelScott and Zelda Fitzgerald - Lowell Hotel, New York
group, GLA Hotels (owners of the Lancaster in ParisMadonna - Carlyle, New York
and the Cadogan Hotel in London) began his careerMadonna - Home House, London
with the Savoy group in the early 1980s. Back then, theWilliam Burroughs - Beat Hotel, Paris
fifth floor at Claridges was reserved for long-termWilliam Burroughs - Chelsea Hotel, New York
guests. But by the early 1990s, he says, hotel residencySid Vicious - Chelsea Hotel, New York
was dying out. Even the wealthy regarded long staysDylan Thomas - Chelsea Hotel, New York
as uneconomical and turned their attention toArthur C Clarke - Chelsea Hotel, New York
affordable second-home investment opportunities.Bob Dylan - Chelsea Hotel, New York
But the tide is turning; both the Lancaster and CadoganTim Burton - Portobello Hotel, London
have three long-stay residents who use the hotels asFrancis Ford Coppola - Portobello Hotel, London
their city bases. "People are moving back into hotelsJohn Lennon - Hilton, Amsterdam
because of the security and service," says Petch.The title novel in the quartet, The Dream of the
Boutique hotels also excel at providing a home-Decade, may end in disquieting circumstances but one
from-home atmosphere backed up with personalisedonly has to look at the tragedies of the famous who
service. "If you have a flat, you might have one personhave died in hotels to know it isn't uncommon.
to look after you," he says. "Here you have all of our