Maison 87 of 100 · Hospitality
Ritz-Carlton
The reading
César Ritz’s name, Atlanta’s operating manual, Marriott’s distribution. Gold Standards printed on a card and actually used. The American formal hotel that still means something at a wedding.
The house
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- 1983
- Atelier
- Hospitality
- Ownership
- Marriott
- Signature
- The Ritz-Carlton, Gold Standards
- Register note
- Ladies and gentlemen serving This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
It is one of nine maisons filed here from the United States, level with the United Kingdom as the fourth-largest national group in the register. Of the eight houses filed under Hospitality, it is the 4th. By founding year it is the 84th-oldest of the hundred. No other house in this register sits under Marriott. Forty houses in this register date from 1950 or later, and it is one. The Hospitality room draws on five countries in this register, the United States among them. In the register's own atlas United States sits at No. 1 of a hundred economies, $32.38T on the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook database, April 2026.