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Sleeping inside history: inns and hotels that restore rather than build

The most contemporary gesture in hospitality is to build nothing at all. From Madrid’s Gran Hotel Inglés, which began life as a café in 1853, to Thompson Rome, in the former headquarters of the Italian Communist Party on Via delle Botteghe Oscure, and on to the alpine and lagoon inns that keep their wrinkles, Raremood explores why the greenest building is the one that already exists, and why the history of a room cannot be manufactured.

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Sleeping inside history: inns and hotels that restore rather than build