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Title: The Art Deco House: Avant-Garde Houses of the 1920s and 1930s by Adrian Tinniswood ISBN: 0-8230-0315-9 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good text, good photos and dull layout.
Comment: There are some glorious color photos in this book of Art Deco (or Moderne) houses. Twenty-nine are featured as well as places like Miami Beach, Los Angeles apartments and Napier, New Zealand. This last place is the Deco capital of the southern hemisphere and I think there should have been more photos than just the four shown.
Each house starts on a spread (frequently with a photo of the architect) and Adrian Tinniswood explains in detail the thinking behind the design. He also writes additional essays on other aspects of Deco style. Unfortunately there are no plans to any of the houses, something I would have thought was fairly essential to a book of historical architecture. I've always wanted to see a plan of the amazing Butler House in Des Moines.
A major disappointment for me was the bland layout. Each page has only one column which makes the photo sizes very inflexible, most pages end up with one photo and a lot of empty white space. Someone should have suggested using more photos (especially interiors) and creating some interesting side-bars.
The twenty-nine houses featured are probably the best examples of the Art Deco style but have a look at two other books on the same subject, ''The Modern House Today'' by Kenneth Powell, wonderful color photos of sixty-five still standing Moderne houses in England and ''Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties'' by James and Katherine Ford, an inexpensive black and white reprint of a 1940 book featuring houses in America. Both these books have some floor plans.
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Title: Art Deco (Architecture and Design Library) by Young Mi Kim ISBN: 1567994318 Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Art Deco House Style: An Architectual and Interior Design Source Book by Ingrid Cranfield ISBN: 0715309641 Publisher: David & Charles Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s by Patricia Bayer ISBN: 0500280207 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers by Alastair Duncan, Alain-Rene Hardy ISBN: 0500276609 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties by Patricia Bayer ISBN: 0500281491 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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