2018 Design Book, "Art Deco Chicago Designing Modern America", Edited by Robert Bruegmann

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Offered is a divine book, "Art Deco Chicago Designing Modern America", Edited by Robert Bruegmann, with in depth essays by … Read more Offered is a divine book, "Art Deco Chicago Designing Modern America", Edited by Robert Bruegmann, with in depth essays by numerous 20th century art and design historians. This book is a true love letter to Chicago's masterful architecture and spirit, and a feast for the eyes. "An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century" (from Yale University Press). We've sampled many of the images for this listing and hereby deem this a very special book.

Hardcover (brown cloth), dust jacket, ribbon bookmark
Publishers: Chicago Art Deco Society, Yale University Press
ISBN-10: ‎ 0300229933
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0300229936
Published: Oct 2018
Item weight: 6.1 lbs,‎ 2.77 kg
412 Pages, 207 color + 118 b-w illustrations
Dimensions: 9", 12.375", 1.625" (31.24 x 23.88 x 4.06 cm)

From Yale University Press:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class.

Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.
Distributed for the Chicago Art Deco Society
Exhibition Schedule:
Chicago History Museum
(10/27/18–­­12/02/19)

Reviews:
“The book is, quite simply, fantastic. It’s a deep dive into not just the explosion in Art Deco architecture, but also its effects in fashion and industrial design. Some pages will leave you wistful for masterpieces that have been destroyed, while other hidden gems highlighted in it will have you adding them to your architecture bucket list.”—Daily Beast

“Stand aside, Radio City. Though New York was a center of 20th century Art Deco, the Second City held its own. ‘Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America’, edited by Robert Bruegmann, accompanies a coming exhibition at the Chicago History Museum on Chicago’s hefty role in marketing the Depression-era movement. The 101 examples — including accordions, pedestrian overpasses and the Hostess Twinkie — demonstrate the appeal of jagged edges and racy curves.”—Jeremy Allen, New York Times See less