We challenge you to match these hotels to reach their 100th anniversary

The 1920s Overview for more than flashes, speakeasies and Louis Armstrong. It is also when some of the most beautiful stars in the world hotels were born. So what was it going by 100 years ago which allowed so many elegant properties to prosper?

Then, as now, technological advancement has opened the way. Better design and construction techniques have enabled suites with their own private bathrooms, lit by electric lamps instead of gas or candles. But Bjorn HansonVoyage consultant and teacher of hospitality at New York University, underlines another important factor: the richest in the world were deployed en masse for the first time and refused to sacrifice comfort on the road. “The durations of the hotel stays were weeks or months, because long -distance trips were by train or in ship,” explains Hanson. “Hotels have evolved, with larger rooms and more services, to serve these travelers. They were looking for accommodation equivalent to their homes. ”

To celebrate recent (or approached) centenarians of these lasting benchmarks, we challenge you to match the property to the description below. And because they continued to inspire newly built hotels, we also threw a ringtone which is barely a decade. No research on Google!

A) Mamounia, Marrakech

B) Château Marmont, Los Angeles

C) Bristol, Paris

D) Biltmore, Coral Gables, Flo.

E) Palais de Belmond Copacabana, Rio de Janiero

F) Beaumont Mayfair, London

G) gleneagles, auchterarer, Scotland

H) Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida.

1 and 1 This Moorish inspiration fantasia opened its doors in 1926, with 2 -foot high -female frescoes, huge fireplaces and vaulted ceilings that made him look more like a hotel than a hotel. The chevron -shaped pool was made to measure for synchronized swimming.

2 Josephine Baker celebrated her 50th anniversary as an artist of this property, which opened in April 1925. A previous property in the same building welcomed President Ulysses S. Grant while he visited the world after the end of his mandate.

3 and 3 This hotel was intended to mark the centenary of the independence of his country but opened a year too late – in 1923. He became a symbol of his hometown, and his salons and salons were even reproduced for a thumb for a film with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

4 Do not leave the interiors inspired by Art Deco you deceive you. He can have a restaurant named after a protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but this 101 -room hotel opened in 2014 on the site of an old car park.

5 When this sprawling area lost in 1924, the eighth wonder of the world was proclaimed. His first guests came here to play golf course and hunt Grouse after spending the summer social season in Cowes and playing the polo shirt in Deauville.

6. It cost $ 7 million to build this Italian Renaissance style hotel, which began to welcome the guests in December 1926. He had to be rebuilt after a guest left his iron with trendy curling while it was rushed to attend a bullet, which sparked a fire.

7 This place opened its doors as high -end immeuble barely eight months before the 1929 crash. The owner had to sell it in 1931, and his new operator saw that his details of discreet design – such as an underground garage with direct elevators to the rooms, bypassing the hall – were ideal for celebrities of confidentiality.

8 This palatial hotel is as famous for its sumptuous land (a gift from the country's sovereign to her favorite son) as for his ornate and elaborate rooms. He opened in 1923 on the site of a royal rose garden, filled with 5,000 bushes.

Answers: 1-D, 2-C, 3-E, 4-F, 5-G, 6-H, 7-B, 8-A