Discovering South Beach Deco
Author: Richard Beaubien
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780976023807
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South Beach Deco
Author: Iris Chase
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This information and image-packed reference work will help you define South Beach. A variety of walking tours of the Art Deco architecture, along with insight into the tempo, culture, and the habits and customs of this unique area, provide a journey into the heart and soul of this world-famous tropical destination.
Tropical Deco
Author: Laura Cerwinske
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Born out of fantasy and speculation, designed for fun and profit, Miami Beach has been, from its inception, a city of mythical composition. Its famed Art Deco District was designated a Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and today the area is basking in a revival of interest and attention. Nevertheless, while fashion photographers and entrepreneurs, artists, developers, restaurateurs and club owners flock to the neighborhood, it is still struggling, after years of deterioration and neglect, to recreate itself out of its own forgotten glamour. Despite a new palette of confectionery colors and the renovation of numerous buildings, the Art Deco District remains in need of urban cultivation, of a reinterpretation that transcends its original resort identity. Author Laura Cerwinske introduces Tropical Deco: The Architecture and Design of Old Miami Beach by discussing both the area's past and its future. Throughout her comprehensive exploration of the most concentrated neighborhood of Art Deco buildings in the world, she details the style's evolution and examines its design. Tropical Deco: The Architecture and Design of Old Miami Beach treats its readers to a delightful view of a unique adaption of a historic architectural style. For, while Miami Beach's Art Deco architecture derives its stylistic roots from the streamlined and electric visions of the cosmopolitan North, Tropical Deco design is much softer and more temperately seductive. These are buildings whose narrative and evocative nature is at once sophisticated, naive and filled with humor."--Publisher.
South Beach Architectural Photographs
Author: Paul Clemence
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764320866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a striking journey with photographer Paul Clemence through Miami's South Beach, home to some of the world's most extraordinary Art Deco architecture. Highlighting the elements that create and define the Art Deco style, this collection of 64 black-and-white photographs is a cross between a fine art photography and a travel book that captures the emotion and expresses the spirit of South Beach.
Deco Delights
Author: Barbara Baer Capitman
Publisher: Studio
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A magnificent and inspiring book about the only Art Deco District in America by the woman who made it come alive again. The triumphs and despairs described in Capitman's text are the result of the struggle between the pressure for development and the necessity for preservation. 135 color plates.
South Beach
Author: Brian Antoni
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2008-03-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1555848427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Decadence has never seemed so sweet and innocent as it does in Brian Antoni’s lost world of deco and disco in pre-millennial Miami.” —Jay McInerney This second novel by the acclaimed author of Paradise Overdose, is a “candy-colored and warmhearted . . . story of one man’s moral and sexual flowering” (The New York Times Book Review). At the ripe old age of twenty-nine, globe-trotting, trust fund-endowed Gabriel Tucker is horrified to learn that all that’s left of his inheritance is a crumbling Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms. Alone, penniless, and lacking any sort of useful skills, he heads to Miami to reconstruct his life. His new neighbors are an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who Gabriel starts to fall for. Quickly he is thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, where temptations abound and quick fortunes, mountains of drugs, nonstop sex, and beautiful women (and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He becomes a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels, rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked politicians, and a cast of colorful characters that would make Caligula blush. South Beach’s debauched and seductive glow makes for an unlikely place to start over. But it is here, among the faded art deco buildings and eclectic residents, that Gabriel will find a home—and a love—that he never expected. “[Antoni] mischievously and triumphantly combines explicit sexual encounters with keen, hilarious social commentary and genuine compassion to create a love letter to a crazy place and a sweet tale of friendship, succor, and love.” —Booklist
Miami Beach Deco
Author: Steven Brooke
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0789329336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Steven Brooke, whose dazzling photography of Miami’s Art Deco District once helped spur the area’s preservation, now captures the incredible architectural restoration of this glamorous international playground. During the 1930s, Miami Beach emerged as an epicenter of Art Deco architecture. Against the azure sky gleamed buildings that boasted voluptuous curves, nautical elements, Jazz Age ornamentation, and seductive neon. After the area fell into decline in the 1970s and ’80s, Steven Brooke and others successfully campaigned to protect the Art Deco District’s architectural treasures from the wrecking ball. Now, with the district’s buildings finally restored to their eye-popping glory, Brooke offers Miami- and Art Deco–lovers the most up-to-date celebration of the inimitable architecture that has made the city a style magnet for artists, designers, and travelers from around the globe.
Miami Beach Deco
Author: Alan Rose
Publisher:
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 9780788169885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains easy-to-assemble miniature models of Miami Beach's historic Art Deco District. Each of the 12 outstanding landmarks can be assembled in 5 minutes. Within the hour, a miniature Miami Beach, stretching over 4 feet, is ready for display atop a mantel or bookshelf. The facades & the precise vivid exteriors remain unchallenged in the realm of architectural card models. Here are the Miami Beach Art Deco buildings, in die-cut, easy-to-assemble form, created from actual photographs by one of the finest paper engineers. An introduction by David Kelly discusses the rise & history of this Art Deco District.
Long Beach Art Deco
Author: John W. Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780738546704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At 5:55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, Southern California was rocked by a massive earthquake. Wood-frame bungalows lost their chimneys, and engineered concrete buildings suffered minimal damage. But unreinforced masonry buildings near the epicenter failed catastrophically, and Long Beach was particularly hard hit. Nearly three-quarters of the school buildings, as well as many other structures, were rendered unusable until repaired or rebuilt. The Art Deco style, in addition to being fashionably modern in 1933, met the criteria of earthquake safety, and many new structures showed its influence. Both the Zigzag Moderne style of the 1920s, which boasted many structures that survived the earthquake, and the Streamline Moderne style that came into vogue in the 1930s relied on sleek lines with decoration incorporated into the design. This volume celebrates, in both word and image, the Long Beach that rose from the rubble to become a premier Art Deco city. At 5:55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, Southern California was rocked by a massive earthquake. Wood-frame bungalows lost their chimneys, and engineered concrete buildings suffered minimal damage. But unreinforced masonry buildings near the epicenter failed catastrophically, and Long Beach was particularly hard hit. Nearly three-quarters of the school buildings, as well as many other structures, were rendered unusable until repaired or rebuilt. The Art Deco style, in addition to being fashionably modern in 1933, met the criteria of earthquake safety, and many new structures showed its influence. Both the Zigzag Moderne style of the 1920s, which boasted many structures that survived the earthquake, and the Streamline Moderne style that came into vogue in the 1930s relied on sleek lines with decoration incorporated into the design. This volume celebrates, in both word and image, the Long Beach that rose from the rubble to become a premier Art Deco city.
Miami Beach Deco
Author: Alan Rose
Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780312146795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Having been recently revived, the Art Deco District in Miami Beach is "the place" to see and to be seen. Miami Beach Deco enables the reader to erect a model version of this fascinating area without the use of any tools or glue. Twelve outstanding landmarks, including the Evelyn Apartments, the Century Hotel, and the Marlin Hotel, are featured--all die-cut and ready-to-assemble in five minutes. Full color.
