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1970s

104
Events
29
Countries
1970–1979
Span

The 1970s: the collection and the island resort.

1970S105 events · 74 opened · 14 event · 7 sold · 5 awarded · 2 died · 2 invented · 1 closed
1970
Event
David Mancuso holds the first Loft party, 'Love Saves the Day', on Valentine's Day
no register entry
1970
Opened
Nadaman opens inside the Imperial Hotel Tokyo
1970
Event
David Mancuso's Loft parties begin in New York — the ancestor of the modern dance floor
no register entry
1970
Opened
Hapag-Lloyd is formed from the merger of HAPAG, founded 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd
1970
Opened
Robert Burns founds Regent International Hotels with the Tokyu Group
1970
Sold
Jaisal Singh's parents and his uncle Valmik Thapar buy land on the edge of Ranthambhore
1970
Opened
Forte Village opens in southern Sardinia
1970
Opened
Japan Airlines opens the first Hotel Nikko
1970
Opened
Rudolf von Schönburg becomes general manager of the Marbella Club and stays fifty years
1970
Opened
Tjandra Kusuma and his three sons found the Mulia Group in construction and building materials
1970
Opened
Hotel Bora Bora builds fifteen overwater bungalows and makes the format world-famous ⚑ the hotel is often credited with inventing it three years too early
1970
Opened
Hotel Bora Bora builds bungalows on stilts over the lagoon; the format becomes the island's signature
1970
Opened
Maçakızı begins at Bodrum as a small pension and becomes the Aegean's social address
1970
Closed
Merchants leave Al Balad for the new districts along the coast; the coral tower houses begin to fail
1970
Opened
Khalaf Al Habtoor builds his first hotel in Dubai
1970
Opened
Carlo Cinque opens Il San Pietro on the cliff below Positano, with no sign at the door
1970
Opened
The Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa opens in Corsica under the Canarelli family
1970
Sold
Kerkorian sells the International to Hilton; it becomes the Las Vegas Hilton
1971
Opened
Jimmy'z opens beneath the Sporting d'été on 9 July, entry by club card only
1971
Opened
Lenôtre opens his cooking school at Plaisir
1971
Event
Mick and Bianca Jagger marry at the Byblos
1971
Opened
GreenGo opens beneath the Gstaad Palace on 22 January, interior by Teo Jakob — unchanged since
1971
Opened
The Daktylides family opens Sani Beach Club in Halkidiki
1971
Opened
Walt Disney World opens in Florida with the Contemporary and the Polynesian
1971
Opened
Robert Kuok opens the first Shangri-La in Singapore
1971
Opened
The HRH Group is formed by the Mewar family of Udaipur
1971
Opened
Ng Teng Fong's Far East Organization begins its Singapore hotel portfolio
1971
Opened
Roberto Wirth becomes the fourth generation at the Hassler in Rome
1971
Opened
Hacienda Na Xamena opens on the north cliffs of Ibiza
1971
Opened
Shang Palace opens with the first Shangri-La, in Singapore
1971
Opened
The first Starbucks opens in Pike Place Market
1971
Opened
Elounda Beach opens in Crete
1971
Awarded
Le Pot-au-Feu receives a second Michelin star
1972
Event
Yang Bingyi gives half his cooking-oil shop over to xiaolongbao — Din Tai Fung
1972
Awarded
The Oriental joins Mandarin International and gives the group its name
1972
Opened
Mohamed Umar Maniku opens Kurumba, the Maldives' first resort
1972
Opened
The Pestana Carlton Madeira opens in November — the group's first hotel
1972
Died
Donald Pritzker dies at 39, after thirteen years in which Hyatt grew to 26 hotels
1972
Event
George Corbin lands at Hulhulé on 16 February with nineteen Italians — the first tourist group to reach the Maldives, hosted in three houses in Malé by Mohamed Umar Maniku, Hussain Afeef and Ahmed Naseem
1972
Opened
Kurumba Village opens on Vihamanaafushi on Tuesday 3 October — the first resort in the Maldives: thirty beachfront rooms of coral stone, coconut timber and palm thatch, and a brackish-water shower
1973
Opened
Ricardo Urgell founds Pacha
1973
Opened
Pacha Ibiza opens at Ses Feixes, built to look like a finca
1973
Opened
The Grand Hotel opens in Taipei on the site of a Shinto shrine, built for Madame Chiang
1973
Opened
Punta Tragara opens at Capri in a house built by Le Corbusier's client Emilio Vismara
1973
Opened
Lord and Lady Macdonald open Kinloch Lodge on Skye
1973
Opened
La Samanna opens on Baie Longue at St Martin
1973
Opened
The original MGM Grand opens with 2,084 rooms at a cost of $107m — again the largest hotel in the world
1973
Opened
Baros opens in December with twenty-eight sand-floor thatched cabanas, the third resort in the Maldives and the first of the six islands the government released for tourism that year
1974
Event
Henri Chenot first applies the method at the general hospital in Cannes
1974
Event
Jimmy'z moves beneath the new Monte-Carlo Sporting Club with its Japanese lagoon
1974
Event
Sazanka-sō becomes Nadaman's head branch, in the Hotel New Otani's samurai garden
1974
Event
Dave and John Varty take over Londolozi and begin restoring the land
1974
Opened
Casa de Campo opens in the Dominican Republic, designed by Oscar de la Renta
1974
Opened
Baglioni opens its first hotel in Florence
1974
Opened
Michel and Christine Guérard open Les Prés d'Eugénie at Eugénie-les-Bains
1974
Opened
Guérard moves to Eugénie-les-Bains; the property takes the name Les Prés d’Eugénie and the restaurant receives one Michelin star
1975
Awarded
Casino Carrasco declared a national historic monument
1975
Opened
Michael Kadoorie takes the chair of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels
1975
Opened
Muhammad Nassif turns the house into a private library of 16,000 books, open to anyone who calls on him
1975
Opened
The Daskalantonakis family opens the first Grecotel
1975
Opened
Constance opens Le Prince Maurice era in Mauritius ⚑ founding given variously
1975
Opened
José Koechlin founds Inkaterra in Peru, one of the earliest ecotourism companies
1975
Invented
Les Prés d’Eugénie receives a second star; Grande Cuisine Minceur is formalised in the thermal setting
1976
Event
The d'Ornano family take over the house that becomes Sisley
1976
Opened
Antonio Escohotado leases a farmhouse at San Rafael and opens what becomes Amnesia
1976
Died
Charles Ritz dies; his widow Monique takes the Ritz Paris
1976
Sold
James Sherwood buys the Hotel Cipriani for £900,000 — the origin of Belmond
1976
Event
Gracie Fields hands the Canzone del Mare restaurant to Luigi Iacono
1976
Sold
James Sherwood buys Hotel Cipriani — the origin of Belmond
1976
Opened
Sandy and Kreis Beall open Blackberry Farm in the Tennessee foothills
1976
Opened
Pan Pacific opens its first hotel in Singapore
1976
Opened
Dionísio Pestana arrives from South Africa at twenty-four to save the hotel his father was ready to abandon after the Carnation Revolution
1976
Event
Guérard appears on the cover of Time on 9 February and publishes La Grande Cuisine Minceur
1977
Opened
Ayla Emiroğlu opens a sixteen-room pension in Bodrum — Maçakızı
1977
Opened
Studio 54 opens at 254 West 54th Street on 26 April
1977
Opened
The Paradise Garage opens at 84 King Street with Larry Levan resident
1977
Opened
Pio Galligani and Enrica del Rosso open Paper Moon on via Bagutta, Milan
1977
Awarded
1977
Opened
The Spy Who Loved Me is filmed at Cala di Volpe and fixes the Costa Smeralda in the popular imagination
1977
Awarded
Les Prés d’Eugénie receives three Michelin stars
1978
Opened
Le Palace opens on 1 March with Grace Jones singing La Vie en Rose
1978
Opened
Les Bains Douches opens in the 1885 Guerbois baths, interiors by Philippe Starck
1978
Event
Roland Barthes reviews Le Palace for Vogue Hommes as a total art
1978
Sold
The Oetker family buys Le Bristol
1978
Opened
Anouska Hempel opens Blakes in South Kensington — the first designer hotel
1978
Opened
John and Harry Mariani buy Castello Banfi at Montalcino
1978
Opened
Patrick O'Connell and Reinhardt Lynch open The Inn at Little Washington in a converted garage
1978
Opened
Adam Tihany opens his New York design studio
1978
Opened
John and Harry Mariani buy Castello Banfi at Montalcino
1978
Event
Mohamed Umar Maniku and his brother Ahmed Umar Maniku consolidate their interests as Universal Enterprises (Private) Limited ⚑
1979
Opened
Costas Spiliadis opens the first Milos in Montreal
1979
Opened
Cecconi's opens in Mayfair
1979
Sold
The Ritz family sells the Ritz Paris to Mohamed Al-Fayed and his brothers
1979
Sold
Richard Branson buys Necker Island for £180,000 at twenty-eight
1979
Opened
1979
Opened
Lotte opens its first hotel in Seoul
1979
Opened
The Shilla opens in Seoul on the former state guest house grounds
1979
Opened
Caroline Rose Hunt founds Rosewood in Dallas
1979
Opened
Roberto Sciò takes Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole
1979
Opened
Pierre-Yves Rochon opens his Paris studio
1979
Opened
Neal's Yard Dairy opens in Covent Garden and begins buying from named farmhouse makers
1979
Opened
Natura Bissé is founded in Barcelona
1979
Opened
Richard Branson buys Necker Island; Virgin Limited Edition grows from it
1979
Opened
The Daktylides family opens the first Myconian house
1979
Invented
Jay and Cindy Pritzker establish the Pritzker Architecture Prize through the Hyatt Foundation
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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.