{"product_id":"socialist-hotels-by-fuel-9781068294617","title":"Socialist Hotels","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom brutalism to modernism, via futurism - the Socialist Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique architectural and cultural phenomenon that is collectively documented in these stunning photographs for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWould you check in to a Socialist Hotel from an era when hospitality came second to ideology? These state-constructed buildings were used by visiting government workers, ordinary citizens - and even the occasional capitalist guest from the West. Today they are a fascinating legacy of a Soviet architectural, social, and cultural idiosyncrasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis epic photographic project - spanning 153 hotels across 31 countries - chronicles the architecture of hospitality and leisure in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space. Many were built in imposing styles: brutalist and modernist structures emphasising scale, functionality, and the power of the state. Quirkier constructions used mosaics, tiles, and stained glass as cultural references, to reflect the traditions of individual countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollected here for the first time are an amazing range of examples, from the grand Socialist Realism and neoclassical details of the Stalinist era (such as the Interhotel, Georgia) and the Soviet Modernism that marked a shift away from excess towards austere, concrete structures (Hotel Traian, Romania) to the futuristic and gravity-defying (Sevan Writers' House, Armenia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs socialism waned, the hotels became privatised, increasingly undergoing modernisation or even demolition, to be replaced with global brands. \u003cem\u003eSocialist Hotels\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique survey of a contemporary Soviet architectural diaspora, documenting remaining examples of this disappearing phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244153712876,"sku":"9781068294617","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781068294617-socialist-hotels-1.jpg?v=1787993706","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/socialist-hotels-by-fuel-9781068294617","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}