Classic London Art Deco, The Daily Express Building, Savoy Hotel, Eltham Palaca, and many hidden treasures
A photographic tour through Art Deco London with an architectural historian
Focuses on the architects of the time and the city's culture that shaped their work
39,90 €
Modernism London Style
The Art Deco Heritage
»Modernism London Style« chronicles the creativity of the architects and designers of the period, as well as the currents in the city’s culture that helped shape their work. Architecture scholar Adam Caruso sheds light on the key features of the Art Deco style and architectural historian Christoph Rauhut and photographer Niels Lehmann capture the architectural Art Deco heritage of London in a photographic tour.
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In the 1920s, London was changing. In contrast with London’s ageing Victorian structures, the bright and colourful architecture of modernism – from the Hoover Factory to the Ideal House by Raymond Hood, who later designed New York’s Rockefeller Center – communicated the city’s aspirations as a thriving, modern metropolis. Today millions of visitors admire the old headquarters of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, take in the elegance of Eltham Palace, or sip a martini at the Savoy. London’s busiest, yet often overlooked Art Deco treasure, the London Underground, boasts a series of Art Deco and modernist stations, designed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by noted architect Charles Holden.
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Ein ästhetischer Genuss für Liebhaber der Baugeschichte, der reichlich Anregungen für die Architektur der Gegenwart liefert.
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Ed. Christoph Rauhut
Photographer Niels Lehmann
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Introduction by Adam Caruso
Text: English / German
216 pages, 379 b-w photographs, 123 as full-page plates
24 x 27 cm, hardcover
Text: English / German
216 pages, 379 b-w photographs, 123 as full-page plates
24 x 27 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-8031-2
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