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Design Hotels Overloads Our Coffee Table With Their 'Yearbook'

Another day, another hotel interiors coffee table book. Newest on the bookshelf is one from the recently re-branded Design Hotels; it is simply their "Yearbook," documenting 170 member hotels of their group in glossy style.

Available in black or white, we're guessing to help best contrast other colorful hotel books out there, the Yearbook is a weighty 476 pages, ringing in at a similarly hefty price of 44 Euro ($58.80). To spare you the need of lugging one of these babies home from the bookstore, we'll let you in on a few of the eccentric properties featured: Limes Hotel in Brisbane, New Majestic in Singapore, Azucar in Veracruz, East Hotel Hamburg, Goldman 25Hours in Frankfurt, the Hospes Maricel on Mallorca, and the Alila Villas Hadahaa on an atoll in the Maldives.

It may be nothing more than a glorified catalog, but there is a definite winning argument for owning this type of book: it makes you look cultured and well-traveled, and its very presence makes your bookshelf appear eccentric. Since we admit to having shallow moments where these things matter, you'll be catching this on our Christmas (in July) list.

[Photos: Design Hotels]