{"id":2643,"date":"2017-01-24T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:04:57","slug":"haludovo-palace-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/haludovo-palace-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Haludovo Palace Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haludovo Palace, short lived as it was, reigned supreme in terms of the sheer extravagant opulence it provided its guests. It&#8217;s no suprise, then, that the project was commissioned by Penthouse Magazine owner Bob Guccione who approached architect Boris Maga\u0161 to build his dream spot for decadence, a seminal adult&#8217;s playground. The Adriatic coast, unspoiled as it was, seemed a perfect fit and work commenced in 1969 with profound optimism. As per <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.la76.com\/2014\/02\/tito-meets-penthouse%E2%80%A8\/\" target=\"_blank\">LA76<\/a>, Guccione&#8217;s dream had to have &#8216;hanging gardens, lavish pools, expensive mid-century furniture [and] men wore thick moustaches, Mexican-inspired salsa music was blasting out from the speakers and Penthouse Magazine pets delivered pi\u00f1a coladas and casually spun roulette wheels&#8217;. Caviar, lobster and champagne flowed &#8211; reportedly with some pools available solely\u00a0to be\u00a0champagne-filled. Filing bankruptcy a handful of years after its grand opening, the Hotel stands today as an abandoned relic and a reminder of the comprehensive vision of its creator, with much of the brutal concrete formwork and internal finishes still in place to honour the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haludovo Palace, short lived as it was, reigned supreme in terms of the sheer extravagant opulence it provided its guests. It&#8217;s no suprise, then, that the project was commissioned by Penthouse Magazine owner Bob Guccione who approached architect Boris Maga\u0161 to build his dream spot for decadence, a seminal adult&#8217;s playground. The Adriatic coast, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}