American Art Deco: Architecture and Regionalism

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A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture.

Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns all through The usa within the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the best possible examples place of job buildings, movie theaters, hotels, and churches are still in use. Deco architects, artists, and designers drew on European styles but were most committed to a style that grew organically, as they saw it, from their native soil. Two themes bound Deco buildings and their decorative schemes together: a regional pride that tied buildings to their specific locales and functions, and a growing national symbolism that asserted the buildings’ identity as uniquely, independently American. American Art Deco features description sand over 500 color photographs of seventy-five lavish and innovatively designed buildings around the country which were preserved both out of doors and in, giving the entire scope of this beloved, exciting style.

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