Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties - Hardcover

Bayer, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810919230 ISBN 13: 9780810919235

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Surveys 1920s and 1930s buildings that epitomize the art deco movement, including hotels, residences, movie theaters, and restaurants

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Bayer is an art historian who has written extensively on Art Deco design and architecture. Her books include Art Deco Architecture, Art Deco Interiors, and Art Deco Postcards. She lives in Connecticut.

From Publishers Weekly:

From a sleekly modern apartment house in Cairo to a town hall in the Netherlands, architecture was influenced internationally by the Art Deco style, as revealed by this wide-angled, superbly illustrated survey. Bayer ( The Art of Rene Lalique ) first uncovers Art Deco's ancient and exotic sources, from Assyrian to Mayan to Moorish. Her text, wedded to 376 jazzy, snazzy illustrations (146 in color), demonstrates how this vibrant, decorative style extended between the wars into every nook and cranny of the U.S. leaving its mark on skyscrapers, movie theaters, firehouses, factories, dams, tunnels, high schools, gas stations, roadside diners and even gravestones. Bayer also examines the Art Deco revival, citing restored Miami Beach hotels as well as public buildings by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi and Helmut Jahn that echo or evoke Art Deco, a style "at once traditional and innovative."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0810919230
• ISBN 13: 9780810919235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224