The Paris Ritz / edited by Mark Boxer ; introduction by Pierre Salinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marc, 1931-1988, editor.

Salinger, Pierre, writer of introduction.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritz Hotel (Paris, France)--History.

Ritz Hotel (Paris, France).

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

175, [1] pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 34 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson Inc., 1991.

Contents:

1. The Hotel. Place Vendôme

2. César Ritz, The Founder. Auguste Escoffier; Olivier Dabescat

3. "The Last Word in Elegance"

4. The Belle Epoque

5. The First World War

6. The Twenties

7. The Thirties

8. The Second World War

9. After the War: Charles Ritz

10. The Renaissance of the Ritz. The Livre d'Or.

Notes:

Main photography by Patrice Habans, David Massey, Douglas Kirkland and Michael Boys.

Designer: William Stoddart. Editor: Stanley Baron.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0500014272 (cloth) :

9780500014271

OCLC:

24768167