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Langham Place and Langham Hotels: A Brand New Road Where East Meets West

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, By Design

Here is a trend, with a brand worth watching: Langham Hotels International, an older, established international hotel brand is in process of creating and operationalizing a newer, edgier dimension with Langham Place.

Above is their new Langham Place in Pazhou, an island near Guangzhou -- near Macau and Hong Kong on the South China Sea. It will open in 2013, as the only hotel connected to the Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, site of the Canton Import and Export Fair and Asia's largest Exhibition space. The 488-room property will feature interiors from world-renowned interior design company, Yabu Pushelberg, who has been responsible many projects in luxury retail and hospitality brands within the last decade. There will be at least nine Langham Places opening in the coming few years.

Recently, I interviewed Bob Van de Oord, Senior Vice President of Sales And Marketing for Langham Hotels International, about the process of expanding a brand into the 21st century, a particularly demanding task, as the Langham's root systems were firmly planted in Victorian London in 1865.

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Langham Place Hotel Offers Guided Art Tours

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Art

More hotels are getting into showcasing art but the Langham Place hotel in Hong Kong is now the first hotel in the world to offer their guests museum-style guided tours of their collection of contemporary Chinese art.The hotel owns more than 1,500 pieces of contemporary Chinese art worth more than HK$20 million. The collection includes pieces by Chinese artists including Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun and Jiang Shuo. The iPod art tour takes guests from the ground level to the 41st floor to check out the hotel's top 21 pieces. Via the iPod, Angela Li, Langham Place's art consultant explains the philosophy and history of the art and artist and the key contributors guiding the artist. The tours are conducted in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese and are free for all guests. The tour comes with a free take-home petite box-set guide with image prints and written explanations in English and Traditional Chinese.

Gallery: Langham Place Art