New York Deco

New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the late 1920s and '30s. During this period, art deco, with its emphasis on machine-tooled elegance and sleek lines, replaced the beaux arts style that preceded it. New York City landmarks were born of this age - the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Waldorf Astoria, and the Lenox Lounge - as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of the Big Apple what it is today.
Richard Berenholtz's photographs of the finest examples of NYC's art deco architecture will be accompanied by text from writers, artists, and personalities of the era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willem de Kooning and Ogden Nash, among others. For the New Yorker and tourist alike, this book is a window into one of the city's most divine periods.

Richard Berenholtz graduated from Columbia University in 1974 with a masters degree in architecture and spent the next four years working for I.M. Pei. By 1984 he had become a professional photographer and, in the past eighteen years, has had five photography books published in five languages: New York, New York, New York New York (mini), Manhattan Architecture, Inside New York, and Panoramic New York. During this time, he has produced one of the most comprehensive collections of photographs in New York.