1920S61 events · 49 opened · 6 event · 4 sold · 1 invented · 1 closed
1920
Invented
Badrutt's Palace installs the Engadin's first hotel lift and first telephone box
1920
Opened
Paul Roux, a farmer's son, opens the café-bar Chez Robinson at Saint-Paul-de-Vence
1920
Event
Charles Cottar establishes the first professional safari outfit in East Africa
1920
Opened
Otto Buchinger opens his first fasting clinic after curing himself by fasting
1921
Opened
The Cambon bar opens at the Ritz Paris; women are made to wait outside in the Dog House
1921
Opened
The Ritz Paris bar is opened by Frank Meier; it is renamed for Hemingway in 1994
1922
Event
Raffles Hotels' forerunner era; the brand is revived under Accor from 2016
1922
Opened
The Dalat Palace opens in the Vietnamese highlands as a French hill station hotel
1923
Opened
La Grande Épicerie opens within Le Bon Marché
1923
Opened
The Copacabana Palace opens in Rio with its casino, by Joseph Gire
1923
Sold
Hippolyte Jammet buys the Castellane mansion on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré
1923
Opened
The Copacabana Palace opens on 13 August, eleven months after the centenary it was built for
1923
Opened
Statler buys an entire block on Niagara Square, betting Buffalo's civic centre will move there, and buys and closes his main rival to guarantee the trade
1924
Event
The Gateway of India is completed, twenty-one years after the Taj it stands beside
1925
Opened
Wildflower Hall is built at Mashobra as Lord Kitchener's residence
1925
Opened
French bombardment damages the Damascus souq during the Great Syrian Revolt
1925
Opened
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud enters Jeddah in December and takes Bayt Nassif as his residence for about ten years
1926
Sold
The Varty and Taylor families buy the land that becomes Londolozi
1927
Opened
J. Willard and Alice Marriott open a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington in May
1927
Opened
The Principe di Savoia opens in Milan on the Piazza della Repubblica
1927
Opened
The Country Club opens at Lima in the Spanish colonial manner
1928
Opened
The Hôtel George V opens on its avenue, financed by Joel Hillman at $31m
1928
Opened
The Peninsula opens in Tsim Sha Tsui, built by the Kadoorie family
1928
Event
Switzerland's first Olympic-sized outdoor pool is built in the Gstaad Palace grounds
1928
Opened
The Alfonso XIII opens in Seville for the Ibero-American Exposition
1928
Opened
The Cloister opens at Sea Island, built by Howard Coffin and designed by Addison Mizner
1928
Opened
Spain opens its first parador, at Gredos, on the king's initiative
1928
Opened
Thirty-eight European hoteliers meet and form the Luxury Hotels of Europe and Egypt; it becomes The Leading Hotels of the World
1929
Closed
Both Astor hotels are demolished for the Empire State Building
1929
Opened
The Chateau Marmont opens on Sunset Boulevard, modelled on a Loire château
1929
Opened
Burgh Island Hotel opens off the Devon coast, built by Archibald Nettlefold — art deco on a tidal island reached by sea tractor
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.