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Four kinds of hotel, read off a single face
A written index of hotels in four categories. Each entry describes the building, the plan and the facilities in plain prose — no ratings, no reviews, no booking.
The register
Four positions on the dial
The four categories sit at the twelve, three, six and nine o’clock marks. The gnomon line is fixed — it points at nothing in particular, and the order carries no ranking.
Hotels built around a collection, a commission or a building worth looking at.
3 entriesCompact sleeping berths and generous shared rooms, arranged for short city stays.
3 entriesHotels first, with a gaming floor among the facilities under the same roof.
4 entriesRead first, decide later
Every property here is a hotel before it is anything else. A gallery wall, a capsule berth, a gaming floor or a room carved from snow is a feature of the building, not the whole of it — so each entry is written to tell you what staying there is actually like, and then leaves the decision entirely to you.