Maison 90 of 100 · Hospitality
Belmond
The reading
Not only hotels: trains and river boats. LVMH bought a portfolio of places that already had myths. The Cipriani and the Copacabana Palace are civic monuments that happen to take reservations.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1976
- Atelier
- Hospitality
- Ownership
- LVMH (since 2019)
- Signature
- Orient Express / Cipriani / Copacabana Palace
- Register note
- Trains, boats, houses This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
It is the 77th-oldest house in the register. Of the eight houses filed under Hospitality, it is the 7th. Its stablemates here are Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more — twenty-one LVMH houses in all. It is one of nine maisons filed here from the United Kingdom, level with the United States as the fourth-largest national group in the register. By rank it falls in the register's fourth quarter. The LVMH houses filed here run from No. 2 to No. 100. Above it in Hospitality the register puts Four Seasons first, at No. 84.