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This chief in the air to date decibels of the groundbreaking Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explore the objects, public, and cultural world of the immense American hotel. Ten richly illustrate essay outward lay bare at the architect, designer, and social forces that created this distinctive and strenuous urban institution, from Gilded Age New York to 1950s Miami Beach domestic buildings The Journal.

Broadly imagined and all the same cohesively demanding, the essays probe such key historical process inwardly place of ingestion and modernism, and race, genus, and sexual category. Topics consider the lavish New York apartment hotels of Schultze and Weaver (the architects of the Waldorf-Astoria); the association relating hotels and mansions in the "rich man's city" of Gilded Age New York; the "bodacious" inside design of Dorothy Draper; the flamboyant Miami Beach fantasies of Morris Lapidus; Henry Flagler's St. Augustine resorts; Atlantic City's feeble Traymore hotel; the social world of hotel chambermaids and clerks; the parallel world of African-American "pleasure travelers"; the trend toward make use of and standardization; and the capitalist narrative of early-twentieth-century urban hotel demolition. of Decorative and Propaganda.

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