Title & Author:

Grand hotels of the jazz age : the architecture of Schultze & Weaver / Marianne Lamonaca and Jonathan Mogul, editors.

Publication:

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
Escape and continuity : the Florida and New York Hotels of Schultze & Weaver / Jonathan Mogul -- From the City to the seaside : luxury hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Miami Beach / Robin F. Bachin -- The skyscraper and the city: Schultze & Weaver's New York Hotels / Keith D. Revell -- The hotel machine ; management and tecnology in the skyscraper hotel / Kenneth J. Lipartito -- The Hotels of Schultze & Weaver -- Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel -- Nautilus Hotel -- Sevilla Biltmore Hotel (addition) -- Atlanta Biltmore Hotel -- Park Lane Hotel -- Miami Biltmore Hotel -- Roney Plaza Hotel -- Breakers Hotel -- Montauk Manor -- General Oglethorpe Hotel -- Sherry-Netherland Hotel -- Hotel Lexington -- Hotel Pierre -- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Summary:

"The Breakers, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Miami Biltmore, the Pierre - these landmark hotels are synonymous with luxury and glamour. When they were built, during the Roaring Twenties, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating these and countless other luxury hotels was a single architectural firm: Schultze & Weaver. Catering to the social elite, of which they themselves were a part, the firm's partners designed these bastions of the leisure class and engineered the modern conveniences that made their guests feel at home - elaborate entrance lobbies, grand ballrooms, private dining rooms, round-the-clock room service, specialty shops, beauty parlors, and full-service laundries, all operating effortlessly thanks to enormous staffs that moved undetected throughout the buildings, using discrete entrances, hidden corridors, and service elevators." "This illustrated book presents fourteen of Schultze & Weaver's most spectacular resorts and hotels in vivid detail, with more than two hundred period photographs, hand-colored renderings, and memorabilia. In addition, four engaging essays chart the ascent of the firm and of the luxury hotel in all its glory, in the years just before the Great Depression forever changed the way America's privileged class lived."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

156898555X (Princeton Architectural Press ; alk. paper)
9781568985558 (Princeton Architectural Press ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Schultze, Leonard, 1877-1951.
Weaver, S. Fullerton (Spencer Fullerton), -1939.
Weaver, S. Fullerton (Spencer Fullerton), m. 1939.
Schultze, Leonard.
Schultze & Weaver Themes, motives.
Schultze & Weaver Thèmes, motifs.
Schultze & Weaver
Resort architecture United States.
Hotels United States.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture and recreation United States.
Architecture et loisirs États-Unis.
Hôtels États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture des lieux de villégiature États-Unis.
Architecture and recreation
Architecture
Hotels
Resort architecture
Themes, motives
Hotelbau
Architektur
Hôtel.
1920-1929.
1930-1939.
United States
États-Unis.

Form/genre:

History
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Schultze, Leonard, 1877-1951.
Weaver, S. Fullerton (Spencer Fullerton), -1939.
Lamonaca, Marianne.
Mogul, Jonathan, 1963-
Schultze & Weaver.
Wolfsonian-Florida International University.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241623
Call No.: BIB 171485
Status: Available