http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T13:02:41Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Anouska%20Hempel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/10/31/12822/420 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/thehempel_stevejobs.jpg" class="top"><p> The world knows <b>Steve Jobs</b> for his creation of the gadgets that have become an everyday necessity in our lives like the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. But thanks to the new biography on the Apple mastermind by Walter Isaacson, we've learned that Jobs would have also made a badass hotel critic. <p>HotelChatter HQ has just finished the book, which pounds home how hard Steve jobs is on design. In fact, he would immediately classify design examples as "the greatest" or "shit". More often than not, he was right in these knee-jerk assessments. <p>And yes, his extreme design assessments extended to things outside the computer world--like hotels. Here's a very telling bit in the book about juliana 2011-10-31T15:00:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/3/8/152211/2115 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/warapuru_update.png" class="imgborder"/><p>We checked in a few months ago on dominatrix/hotelier Anouska Hempel's Brazilian project, <a href="http://www.warapuru.com"><b>Warapuru</b></a> when it was listed as an "It" destination by Concierge.com despite the fact that it isn't even open yet.<p> In visiting the hotel's web site today, we noticed there are some new photos/renderings and this description about Anouska's resort retreat in Itacare: <blockquote><p>40 individual pavillions, delicately placed in the landscape, ensure privacy and commanding views through the rain forset to the beach beyond. At its heart, Warapuru's beach club restaurants and exclusive spa will offer an experience without rival.</blockquote></p><p>There is no mention of the number of hotel rooms to go along with the 40 pavillions but we guess Anouska still hasn't figured that juliana 2007-03-08T15:35:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/11/11229/9389 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/warapuru_ahempel.jpg"><p>Concierge.com has recently put forth its top "It" Destinations for 2007 and guess who's hotel they recommend in Itacar&#233;, Brazil?<blockquote><p> Warapuru, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/5/103751/5463/hotels/The_Anouska_Hempel_Story_Revenge_of_the_Dominatrix_Hotelier">Anouska Hempel's</a> new property, set to open this spring, is going to be a destination in itself: 40 pavilions in the rainforest facing the ocean, big spa and cutting edge design. The favorite destination of Gisele and Sean Penn.</blockquote></p><p>But don't get to booking your trip so soon. A <a href="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10328-2337320,00.html">Times UK</a> report from September mentioned the hotel still had not been built, and room rates were still up in the air. Even the amount of hotel rooms had not been totally decided back in September although Anouska guesstimated about 150 hotel rooms along side the 40 pavilions. juliana 2007-01-11T09:50:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/5/103751/5463 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/anouska_hempel.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><br> How do you go from <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1642191,00.html">appearing in seventies soft porn</a> to becoming the godmother of boutique hotels? More importantly how does it take us three years to notice? Anouska Hempel, we have discussed your hotels before, but today is the first day we came across your incredibly interesting story. Let's start from the beginning. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Anouska%20Hempel">Anouska Hempel</a> was an actress in a Russ Meyer film called "Blacksnake", which has a review on a site called <a href="http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/meyerdvd.htm">"Spank the Monkey"</a>. <blockquote><p> In the film, shot on Barbados, Weinberg (Hempel's married name) plays Lady Susan Walker, a dominatrix who satiates her desires by whipping black male slaves on her 19th-century cotton plantation. Her long leather whip lashes markj 2007-01-05T10:59:33-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/