One code each. Nothing moves.
The ten parts
FORMAT OF STAY, NOT GEOGRAPHYIndependent & Specialised Luxury Hospitality Brands
Corporate Luxury & Lifestyle Portfolios
Collections, Consortia & Programmes
Iconic Houses & Destinations
Yacht & Cruise Collections
Luxury Railway Hospitality
Private Residences & Branded Living
Aviation Hospitality
People Who Shaped Luxury Hospitality
Satellite Houses
What an entry looks like
SPECIMENCheval Blanc
Six Maisons in twenty years — the LVMH house that made slow expansion the operating model itself, not a stage on the way to scale.
READ THE ENTRY →Cheval Blanc is the wrong choice for a traveller who wants a wide points-and-status network, frequent openings, a familiar room reproduced across destinations or a large resort where entertainment and facilities matter more than the hotel itself.
Every entry in the Library carries a paragraph like this one. It is a requirement of the editorial standard, not a matter of the writer's mood.
Three rules the register runs on
EDITORIAL STANDARDThe code outlives the structure
LHL-021 is Aman and will never be anything else. Volumes get reorganised, brands change owners, entries are withdrawn — a retired code is never reissued.
Model before geography
Houses are grouped by how they operate. Country is a field you filter on, never a chapter — which is why a Greek boutique collection sits beside a French one.
Every entry names who it is wrong for
A reference work that only praises is a brochure, and a brochure cannot help you choose between two houses that both look perfect in photographs.