1940S35 events · 24 opened · 6 event · 3 sold · 2 closed
1940
Opened
Rancho La Puerta opens in Tecate — second-oldest house in the wellness field
1940
Event
Swiss national gold is stored in the bunker beneath the Gstaad Palace during the war
1940
Event
The south becomes the free zone; artists and writers move to the coast and the Colombe d'Or becomes their meeting place
1942
Opened
Portugal opens its first pousada, at Elvas, in state-owned historic buildings
1942
Opened
Chatuchak begins in Bangkok by government decree; it grows to fifteen thousand stalls
1943
Opened
Umaid Bhawan is completed at Jodhpur after fifteen years, built as famine relief work
1944
Closed
The Budapest market hall is wrecked in the war; it goes bankrupt in 1991 and is restored in 1994
1945
Opened
Raymond Thuilier takes the Oustau de Baumanière at Les Baux-de-Provence
1946
Closed
Decree-Law 9,215 bans gambling throughout Brazil on 30 April; some 70 casinos close
1946
Opened
The first Cannes Film Festival opens; the Carlton and the Martinez become its infrastructure
no register entry
1946
Opened
The Eagle Club is founded at Wasserngrat above Gstaad as a private members' ski club
no register entry
1946
Opened
Regent's forerunner era begins; Robert Burns founds Regent International in 1970
1946
Opened
Pan Am forms Intercontinental Hotels to serve its own routes across Latin America
1946
Opened
Hilton Hotels Corporation is formed; it lists on the New York Stock Exchange the following year
1946
Opened
Ian Fleming builds GoldenEye at Oracabessa, where he wrote the Bond novels
1947
Opened
Bemelmans Bar opens at the Carlyle; Ludwig Bemelmans paints the murals for a year's board
1947
Event
Christian Dior shows the New Look — the fashion maison enters hospitality's future customer base
no register entry
1947
Opened
Roy Kelley opens his first Waikiki hotel; Outrigger grows from it
1948
Opened
Conrad Hilton forms Hilton International
1948
Opened
The Gritti Palace opens in the sixteenth-century residence of Doge Andrea Gritti
1948
Sold
Statler Hotels buys the Hotel Pennsylvania outright from the Pennsylvania Railroad and renames it the Hotel Statler
1948
Opened
Villa La Massa opens on the Arno outside Florence in a Medici villa
1949
Event
Lucia Fiorentino and Peppino Arcucci build La Fontelina on the rocks at Capri
1949
Sold
Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria
1949
Opened
Chanut Piyaoui opens the Princess Hotel in Bangkok in May — a pool and air conditioning, rare in the city
1949
Sold
Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria; the brand becomes a Hilton line
1949
Opened
The Caribe Hilton opens in San Juan — the first Hilton outside the continental United States
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.