We speak with Spencer Bailey, in charge of the five-volume ‘The Leading Hotels Book Series’ celebrating luxury in global hospitality. Plus we discuss the success of Brazilian publishing house, Afluente, with Julius Wiedemann. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Stack.
Today is a bit of a publishing special.
I welcome back to the studio Brazilian publisher Julius Videman on the success of his affluence.
Plus Spencer Bailey on his new five volume book series together with the leading hotels of the world.
Enjoy the show.
From Midori Housing London, this is the stack.
30 minutes of print industry analysis and I am Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
We start the show talking about a new five volume book series made in partnership with the leading hotels of the world.
The largest collection of independent luxury hotels.
The first iteration to be published by the Phaidon imprint Monacelli is design.
I had a pleasure to speak with the man behind the project, writer, editor and cultural commentator Spencer Bailey.
Sometimes in life the best things happen this way, which seems to be almost like total happenstance.
It actually goes back a couple years.
I was at the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.
Leading hotels of the world was having their holiday party and I'm standing at the champagne bar and just strike up a conversation with this woman next to me.
We start talking about our mutual travel affinities, the things we love.
I tell her about this island in Greece I love going to and how to me it's like the ultimate luxury.
Falling asleep to the sound of the ocean behind your head and you know, sleeping under a mosquito net.
Maybe not for everybody, but for me that's luxury.
Anyway, we were talking for maybe 20 minutes and I asked her, so what's your connection to this event?