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New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age - the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria - as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of New York what it is today.

Richard Berenholtz's stunning photographs of the finest examples of New York City's art deco architecture are accompanied by text from writers, artists, and personalities of the era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.

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Publishers Weekly Review

New York?s most obvious examples of the streamlined architectural style?the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center?figure prominently in this book, but it?s the less notorious buildings and the attention given to architectural details that shine brightest in this paean to old Gotham. Evoking the emotional appeal of interiors, Berenholtz captures the scintillating gold mosaics within the reception hall of the Irving Trust Building. An added enticement is the inclusion of lesser known landmarks that will be familiar to careful observers of late twentieth cinematography: The Lenox Lounge once played host to jazz greats Billie Holiday and John Coltrane and was featured in Spike Lee?s Malcolm X; Scorsese buffs will recognize the gritty glamour of the Airline Diner from Goodfellas. Because of the book?s diminutive size, some studies, most notably of Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building, aren?t as powerful as they could be, but interiors and exterior bric-a-brac, often overlooked in New York architecture books, take center stage here. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

CHOICE Review

New York Deco is a slim book filled with more than 100 stunning color photographs taken by Richard Berenholtz. Trained as an architect, Berenholtz clearly knows his subject matter, how to look at it, and how to capture the spirit of this material with the camera. He is equally adept at doing this with details as with more general views, interior as well as exterior. The book also contains 40 quotations from New York writers, authors, and personalities appropriate to the era pictured, the 1920s and 1930s of New York commerce and art, when the architectural pieces pictured were built. Aficionados of Art Deco and of New York should find perusal a pleasure, even with the extensive pictorial coverage the subject has previously received. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. All levels. R. Longstreth George Washington University

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RICHARD BERENHOLTZ has published five photography books in as many languages: New York New York (in both oversized deluxe and mini editions), Manhattan Architecture , New York Architecture , Architecture: A History, Inside New York , and Panoramic New York . During this time, he has produced one of the most comprehensive collections of photographs of New York extant.

CAROL WILLIS is the founder, director, and curator of the Skyscraper Museum. An architectural and urban historian, she is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago , and has appeared in numerous television documentaries and radio broadcasts discussing the history of American city building.