New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438463960 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 273 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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BOOM - one of the great volumes displaying the marvelous Art Deco architecture of NYC A lovely book. Both the informative text and detailed pictures and maps work side to side in making the walking guide easily accessible. This b gegandco Anthony Robins’ NEW YORK ART DECO is a jazzy, well-detailed compendium of the important Deco sights and sounds in New York. This step-by-step guide leads the observer to both the specific location of interest and an in depth look at what details make that building of particular importance. Its attention to detail is extraordinarily focused and fascinating. Both the informative text and detailed pictures and maps work side to side in making the walking guide easily accessible. This book is a must-read for Deco connoisseurs, architects an. NYC Architect said Wonderful Guidebook loaded with fascinating facts on New York's Art Deco buildings. A wonderful guidebook with clear walking tour maps and photographs that explore the best of New York's Art Deco buildings. The author's style is refreshing and informative, well conveying his passion for the subject matter. The book is loaded with fascinating facts about building's I pass every day! I will now look with fresh eyes at these buildings thanks to this wonderful book. It will be a cherished addition to my architectural library.
. Robins is the author of books on Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center, and the art and architecture of the New York subway system. A popular leader of walking tours all over New York City, he is best known for Art Deco, and organized the city's first regularly scheduled series of Art Deco tours, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York. A native New Yorker and twenty-year veteran of the New York City Landmarks Commission, Ant
Anthony W. Robins, New York's best-known Art Deco guide, includes an introductory essay describing the Art Deco phenomenon, followed by eleven walking tour itineraries in Manhattan each accompanied by a map designed by legendary New York cartographer John Tauranac and a survey of Deco sites across the four other boroughs. Also included is a photo gallery of sixteen color plates by nationally acclaimed Art Deco photographer Randy Juster. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco leads readers step-by-step past the monuments of the 1920s and 30s that recast New Yor
Christopher Gray, author of the former New York Times Streetscapes column Buy this book, take a few wonderful walks around the entire city (discovering some fine New York neighborhoods you probably have never been to), from the Grand Concourse and Washington Heights treasure trove of Deco to the Chrysler Building to Flatbush in Brooklyn, and ask yourself, do all those new glass towers in Manhattan leave you as delighted as Art Deco's confections, whether seven stories or seventy? That generation knew how to make buildings that you really want to live in, work in, and walk by. A wonderful, warmhearted, exceptionally knowledgeable