Bombay art deco architecture : a visual journey, 1930-1953 / Navin Ramani ; edited by Laura Cerwinske.

Main entry:

Ramani, Navin.

Title & Author:

Bombay art deco architecture : a visual journey, 1930-1953 / Navin Ramani ; edited by Laura Cerwinske.

Publication:

[New Delhi] : Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2007.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Roli books

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and indexes.
Bombay : Asian city with a European past -- The dawn of Art Deco in Bombay -- Bombay Art Deco motifs -- The buildings -- BOmbay-MIami Beach (BoMi) Deco -- Preserving and resurrecting Bombay Art Deco.

Summary:

This book presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and civic architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the mid 1930's and 1940's. The architects, a small list of first generation Indian architects and builders, were mostly educated in English schools and trained in western architectural traditions, if not actually in the West. Impatient with the British reluctance to shed the Gothic and Indo - Saracenic architectural styles that had dominated Imperial Bombay's urban landscape, these visionaries were determined to imbue the city with a new modern style.

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ISBN:

8174364471
9788174364470
9788174364487 (hbk.)
817436448X (hbk.)

Subject:

Art deco (Architecture) India Mumbai.
Art déco (Architecture) Inde Mumbai.
Art deco (Architecture)
Buildings
Art Déco
Architektur
Mumbai (India) Buildings, structures, etc.
India Mumbai
Bombay
Mumbai

Form/genre:

Books.
Bildband.

Added entries:

Cerwinske, Laura.
Roli books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250861
Call No.: BIB 180361
Status: Available

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