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Register/Parts/Part IX

People Who Shaped Luxury Hospitality

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The seven groups

Groups describe the relationship between capital and authorship — who paid, and who decided. They are not a ranking. The full register table lives on the People page.

Group I
Pioneers & Inventors
29 entries
César Ritz · Auguste Escoffier · André & Édouard Michelin (pair)
Group II
Owner-Creators
54 entries
Liz Biden · Beatrice Tollman · Kit & Tim Kemp
Group III
Owners & Builders
39 entries
Vladislav Doronin · Sonia Cheng · Mohamed Alabbar
Group IV
Creative Hoteliers
5 entries
Ian Schrager (sub-entry: Steve Rubell) · André Balazs · Philippe Starck
Group V
Hotel Families & Owner-GMs
27 entries
The Bucher–Wirth Family — Franz-Josef Bucher → Oscar Wirth → Roberto Wirth · Franco Sersale · Antonio Sersale
Group VI
Defining Operators & Stewards
18 entries
Anthony Lark · Kurt Wachtveitl · Peter Borer
Group VII
Designers & Architects
62 entries
Jean-Michel Gathy · Kerry Hill · Ed Tuttle
Group VIII
Chefs, Bartenders & Culinary Authors
26 entries
Yannick Alléno · Harry Craddock · Ada Coleman
Group IX
Nightlife & Social Hospitality Authors
9 entries
Anton Pinsky · Régine Zylberberg · José Padilla
Group X
Founders of Houses
61 entries
Adrian Zecha · Isadore Sharp · Sol Kerzner
Group XI
Authors of Places
36 entries
Johannes Badrutt · José “Pepe” Fanjul · Mohamed Umar Maniku

Stories

Every entry surrenders at least one story. There are now 363 of them, drawn from the people of this Part and from the satellite houses of Part X, and they have their own section — gathered in the order they happened, each naming the entry it came from and the country it happened in. Read the stories →

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