http://www.ultraswank.net Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:56:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ultraswank.net/design/mad-men-and-hilton-prove-hotels-not-just-for-sleeping/ http://www.ultraswank.net/design/mad-men-and-hilton-prove-hotels-not-just-for-sleeping/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:53:17 +0000 Katharine Miller http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=2761 From the The Pierre in NYC to the Cavalieri Hilton in Rome, hotels frequently serve as backdrop to exciting plot points on the hit series Mad Men. Creative ad man Don Draper and his cohorts use hotels to seduce clients and women and to celebrate their latest conquests. The show often provides a fictional peek [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/design/mad-men-and-hilton-prove-hotels-not-just-for-sleeping/feed/ 0 http://www.ultraswank.net/roadtrip/the-disneyland-hotel-in-anaheim/ http://www.ultraswank.net/roadtrip/the-disneyland-hotel-in-anaheim/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:55:15 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1215 I am strangely fascinated by the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. Built in 1955 along with the park it was actually not operated by the Walt Disney Company until 1988 due to the building of the park had tapped Walt Disney for most of his financial resources. The Hotel has obviously been rebuilt, added to [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/roadtrip/the-disneyland-hotel-in-anaheim/feed/ 12 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/rendezvouz-in-paris/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/rendezvouz-in-paris/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:37:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/chic-today-article-rendevouz-in-paris/ Yet again the fabulous collaboration with British lifestyle magazine Chic Today continues. Yesterday the third article from me was published in their magazine. It is called Rendezvous in Paris and highlights two chic and design worthy hotels in Paris. I suggest that you head on over to the Chic Today website straight away and read [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/rendezvouz-in-paris/feed/ 3 http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/mid-century-desert-hidaways/ http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/mid-century-desert-hidaways/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:48:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/chic-today-article-mid-century-desert-hidaways/ The article I wrote for British lifestyle magazine Chic Today has finally been published! It’s called Mid Century Desert Hideaways and highlights two very impressive and stylish mid century hotels located in Palm Springs, California. You can read the full article and the rest of the magazine through the links below. Since this is the [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/mid-century-desert-hidaways/feed/ 5 http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/arne-jacobsen/ http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/arne-jacobsen/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:34:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/arne-jacobsen/ This is the third post in my series about my favorite architects from the golden days of architecture. We are going back to Scandinavian design again, allow me to introduce Arne Jacobsen, one of the forefathers of Danish Modernism and Functionalism. Born in Copenhagen 1902, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/arne-jacobsen/feed/ 8