Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture

Hess, Alan

ISBN 10: 081184272X / ISBN 13: 9780811842723

Editore: Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California, 2004

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222pp.incl.index; SC b/w photo w/white; fine conditiow w/clean,tight photos. "Glorious coffee shops, delirious drive-ins, and gems of roadside architecture. In page after page of iconic design -- Googie Redux is the benchmark history of the humble eateries that fulfilled some of modernism's greatest dreams." color&b/w photos throughout. signed on title pg. Codice articolo 016548

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Titolo: Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside ...

Casa editrice: Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Paper Back

Condizione: Fine (New)

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine (New)

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Revised & Expanded

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Riassunto:

A revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic study of the mid-twentieth-century icon, the coffee shop, explores the impact of a building that was emblematic of southern California car culture on the architectural development of stylized eateries and other roadside buildings. Original. 15,000 first printing.

L'autore:

Alan Hess is architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News and the author of numerous books, including Palm Springs Weekend (0-8118-2804-2) and Rancho Deluxe (0-8118-2420-9). He divides his time between Northern California and Michigan.