The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook

by Andre Balazs

The come-back of the year Available again for the first time since 1996. This is Hollywood through the prism of its most legendary dormitory.

"The story of the Chateau Marmont parallels the story of Hollywood so thoroughly as to be inseparable from it...It's possible that no hotel in America inspires so much nostalgia, speculation, and sheer devotion."
-- VANITY FAIR

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789300230
• ISBN13: 9780789300232
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Intriguing and Legendary like the Chateau Marmont Itself

Well, I am proud to say that I have been to the Chateau Marmont on many occasions. In fact, I even spent my 29th birthday there in a bungalow with its own koi fish pond!!! I listened to the Beatles White Album and hung out on my very own patio, what a treat! This book is a wonderful escape into the private and not so private life of the Chateau. This wonderful hotel still has its 1926 flavor, yet with a hip new twist. The drawing room is still the most wonderful place on the premises and many stories in this book revolve around that very room. Legends, baby! This book, like the Chateau will never die, I will see to that. I agree with the last reviewer, Dominic Dunne writes about his experiences living in the Chateau's Hughes penthouse in the early 1970s. Truly magical, this book will delight and intrigue anyone who reads it. I love and miss the Chateau and plan to return very soon! Great book, great place!

Entertaining History of One of Hollywood's Landmarks

I picked up this colorful trade book in a bookstore and had to have it. A collection of stories, rememberances, photos and facts about one of Hollywood's more interesting landmarks--the Chauteau Marmont. I had never heard of it before, but now I understand it's place in LAs history. If you love to read Vanity Fair, this is a book for you. (Especially the article by Dominick Dunne.) I work in the publishing industry, and I have to say that the books' designer and editor both deserve great praise for the care and sophistication with which this book was put together