Too Much is Never Enough: The Autobiography of Morris Lapidus, Architect

Lapidus, Morris

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Rizzoli International Publications, 1996

0847819787 / 9780847819782

Da: Canadian Art Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaCanadian Art Books

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American architect Morris Lapidus is best known as the designer of glamorous postwar resort hotels in Florida, such as the Fontainebleau (1954) and the Eden Roc (1955) in Miami Beach, and the Americana in Bal Harbour (1956). Yet in a remarkable sixty-year career that began in 1926, he designed more than 500 retail stores, hotels, apartment complexes, and stage sets that captured the popular spirit and changing face of Main Street America in the twentieth century. Lapidus created fantasy environments in which America's middle class, flush with expanding postwar incomes and optimism, could fulfill its desire for glamor, relaxed luxury, and leisure. His signature forms - chevrons, "beanpoles," "woggles," or amoeba shapes, and curving walls and ceilings punctuated by "cheese holes," or cutouts - have become treasured icons of American postwar vernacular architecture. Born in Russia in 1902, Lapidus was brought to New York by his parents a year later, and the family first settled on the Lower East Side. He completed his architecture degree at Columbia University and first earned a reputation by designing stage sets and retail stores in which he developed new theories in store design and essentially created the modern storefront as we now know it. For his famed resort hotels of the 1950s Lapidus designed not only the vast structures but a melange of quasi-French provincial and Italian Renaissance decorative elements that critics would dub "Miami Beach French," including everything from the tableware to his famous "stairways to nowhere." He was one of the first architects to acknowledge the cinema as an overriding influence on American taste. Fine copy in mylar protective sleeve.…

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Titolo
Too Much is Never Enough: The Autobiography of Morris Lapidus, Architect
Autore
Lapidus, Morris
Editore
Rizzoli International Publications
Anno di pubblicazione
1996
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
Fine
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0847819787
ISBN 13
9780847819782

Canadian Art Books

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