Boutique hotels are small-capacity hotels that provide more personalized service than typical hotels. They typically have fewer than a hundred rooms, and are considered more "trendy" and "intimate", often due to their location in urban areas. They will usually also display a strong sense of aesthetic, and have a unique, un-homogenized character. They may be themed too, such as by having a focus on nature, environment, cuisine, history, community and cultural immersion, attentive service, or well-being.
5-696: Library Hotel is a 60-room boutique hotel in Midtown Manhattan , New York City. It is located at 299 Madison Avenue (at 41st Street), near Bryant Park , the New York Public Library Main Branch , and Grand Central Terminal . The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs. Each of the Library Hotel's ten guest floors is themed after a major category of the Dewey Decimal Classification . The 5th floor, for example,
10-449: A boutique as opposed to a department store , to which chain hotels were compared. In recent times, boutique hotels have grown in popularity, corresponding with the general public's increased interest in individualized service. Many hotel chains have begun to focus on creating subsidiary hotels to establish smaller, boutique-style hotels, or in acquiring previously independent boutique hotels. Boutique hotels are typically furnished in
15-496: Is the 500s (the Sciences). Each room is a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics (Room 500.001) or Botany (Room 500.004). Dewey categories 000, 100, and 200 are placed on the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors, respectively. There are 50–100 books and decorations in each room that accompany the theme, for a total of 6,000 books throughout the hotel. Due to this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by OCLC (owners of
20-577: The 1980s in major cities such as London , New York , and San Francisco . There is debate about who started the boutique hotel concept. Blakes Hotel in South Kensington, London , designed by Anouska Hempel , and the Bedford by Bill Kimptom in Union Square, San Francisco, both founded in 1981, may have started the trend. The term "boutique hotel" was coined by Steve Rubell, who compared Morgans Hotel to
25-643: The Dewey Decimal Classification system). OCLC subsequently reached an agreement with the hotel owners, thus enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system. The Library Hotel is owned and operated by Henry Kallan, whose Library Hotel Collection includes Manhattan's Hotel Giraffe , Hotel Elysée , and Casablanca Hotel. 40°45′7.65″N 73°58′45.87″W / 40.7521250°N 73.9794083°W / 40.7521250; -73.9794083 Boutique hotel Boutique hotels first began appearing in
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