Grand hotels of the jazz age : the architecture of Schultze & Weaver /
Grand hotels of the jazz age : the architecture of Schultze & Weaver /
Grand hotels of the jazz age : The architecture of Schultze and Weaver
Marianne Lamonaca and Jonathan Mogul, editors.
- 248 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map, plans ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
Director's preface / Escape and continuity : the Florida and New York hotels of Schultze & Weaver / From the city to the seaside : luxury hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Miami Beach / The skyscraper and the city : Schultze & Weaver's New York hotels / The hotel machine : management and technology in the skyscraper hotel / The hotels of Schultze & Weaver -- Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California -- Nautilus Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida -- Sevilla Biltmore Hotel (addition), Havana, Cuba -- Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia -- Park Lane Hotel, New York, New York -- Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida -- Roney Plaza Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida -- Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida -- Montauk Manor, Montauk Point, New York -- General Oglethorpe Hotel, Savannah, Georgia -- Sherry-Netherland Hotel, New York, New York -- Hotel Lexington, New York, New York -- Hotel Pierre, New York, New York -- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, New York. Cathy Leff -- Jonathan Mogul -- Robin F. Bachin -- Keith D. Revell -- Kenneth J. Liparito --
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
156898555X 9781568985558
2005023444
Schultze, Leonard, 1877-1951
Weaver, S. Fullerton -1939
Schultze & Weaver--Themes, motives.
Resort architecture--United States
Hotels--United States
Architecture--History--United States--20th century
NA737.S356 / A4 2005
728.5097309041
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
Director's preface / Escape and continuity : the Florida and New York hotels of Schultze & Weaver / From the city to the seaside : luxury hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Miami Beach / The skyscraper and the city : Schultze & Weaver's New York hotels / The hotel machine : management and technology in the skyscraper hotel / The hotels of Schultze & Weaver -- Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California -- Nautilus Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida -- Sevilla Biltmore Hotel (addition), Havana, Cuba -- Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia -- Park Lane Hotel, New York, New York -- Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida -- Roney Plaza Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida -- Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida -- Montauk Manor, Montauk Point, New York -- General Oglethorpe Hotel, Savannah, Georgia -- Sherry-Netherland Hotel, New York, New York -- Hotel Lexington, New York, New York -- Hotel Pierre, New York, New York -- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, New York. Cathy Leff -- Jonathan Mogul -- Robin F. Bachin -- Keith D. Revell -- Kenneth J. Liparito --
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
156898555X 9781568985558
2005023444
Schultze, Leonard, 1877-1951
Weaver, S. Fullerton -1939
Schultze & Weaver--Themes, motives.
Resort architecture--United States
Hotels--United States
Architecture--History--United States--20th century
NA737.S356 / A4 2005
728.5097309041