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Book List

The Art Deco Society of New York has been compiling the below list of books and materials that focus on Art Deco architecture, design, and the culture of the 1920s and 30s. This listing is by no means complete; it is a work-in-progress and is always expanding. If you would like to share a book that you think should be added to the list, please email ADSNY at Info@ArtDeco.org.

Title	Author	Subject & Focus	Year Published	Publisher
copies of Lost City Arts	null	null	null	null
numerous catalogs from The Pier Show	null	null	null	null
117 House Design of the Twenties	Gordon-Van Tine Co.	Architecture	1992	Athenaeum Dover
A House in the City	H. Dickson McKenna	Architecture	1971	Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
A Living Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright & Taliesin Architects	John Rattenbury	Architecture	2000	Pomegranate Communications
A Treassury of Contemporary Houses	Editors of Architectural Record	Architecture	1954	F.W. Dodge Corp.
Aalto Architecture & Furniture	John McAndrew	Architecture	1938	Museum of Modern Art
Abitare Annual 4	null	Architecture	1989	Rotovision
Abitare Annual 6	null	Architecture	1991	Rotovision
Adolf Loos	Panayotis Tournikiotis	Architecture	1994	Princeton Arechitectural Press
Alvar Aalto	Goran Schildt	Architecture	1994	Rizzoli Press
America's Best Small Houses	William Hennessey	Architecture	1949	The Viking Press
Amerika Neues Bauen in Der Welt	Richard Neutra	Architecture	1930	Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co.
Antoi Gaudi	Rainer Zerbst	Architecture	1993	Taschen
Apartment Houses	Josep Abel; Fred Severud	Architecture	1947	Reinhold Publishing Co.
Apartments Their Design and Development	Samuel Paul	Architecture	1967	Reinhold Press
Archipenko catalog & loose papers	null	Architecture	null	null
Architect of Dreams The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban	Arnold Aronson	Architecture	2000	Wallach Art Gallery
Architectural Graphic Standards 3rd Edition	Charles George Ramsey; Harold Reeve Sleeper	Architecture	1941	John Wiley & Sons
Architectural Graphic Standards 6th Edition	Ramsey & Sleeper	Architecture	1970	Americn Institute of Architects
Architectural Terra Cotta of Gladding McBean	Gary Kurutz	Architecture	1989	Windgate Press
Architecture in Transition	Peter Noever	Architecture	1991	Prestel Verlag
Architecture of the Sun Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970	Thomas Hines	Architecture	2010	Rizzoli
Art & Architecture 1945	null	Architecture	1945	Taschen
Art & Architecture 1947	null	Architecture	1947	Taschen
Art & Architecture 1949	null	Architecture	1949	Taschen
Art & Architecture 1954	null	Architecture	1954	Taschen
Art Deco	Andrzej K. Olszewski	Architecture	2013	DiG
Art Deco Airports	Terry Moyle	Architecture	2015	New Holland Publishers
Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties	Patricia Bayer	Architecture	1999	Thames & Hudson
Arts & Architecture 1946	null	Architecture	1946	Taschen
Arts & Architecture 1948	null	Architecture	1948	Taschen
Arts & Architecture 1950	null	Architecture	1950	Taschen
Arts & Architecture 1951	null	Architecture	1951	Taschen
Arts & Architecture 1952	null	Architecture	1952	Taschen
Arts & Architecture 1953	null	Architecture	1953	Taschen
Arts Decoratifs 1925	Frank Scarlett; Marjorie Townley	Architecture	1975	Academy Editions
Atomic Ranch	Michelle Gringeri Brown	Architecture	2006	Gibbs Smith
Bauhaus	Hans Wingler	Architecture	1980	The MIT Press
Bauhaus 1919-1928	Herbert Bayer; Walter Gropius; Ise Gropius	Architecture	1979	Museum of Modern Art
Bauhaus 1919-1933	Magdalena Droste	Architecture	1990	Taschen
Bauten der Gemeinschaft	Walter Muller-Wulckow	Architecture	1929	Karl Robert Langewiesche
Beautiful Gardens How to Make & Maintain Them	Walter Wright	Architecture	1907	Funk & Wagnells
Before You Buy A House	John Hancock Callender	Architecture	1953	Crown Publishers
Brancusi	Sidney Geist	Architecture	1969	Solomon Guggenheim Museum
British Pavilion Seville Exposition 1992	Nicholas Grimshaw	Architecture	1992	Phaidon Press
C.F.A. Voysey	Wendy Hitchmough	Architecture	1995	Phaidon Press
Charles Rennie Mackintosh	Glasgow School of Art	Architecture	1988	Gibbs Smith Publishers
Charles Rennie Mackintosh	Charlotte Fiell: Peter Fiell	Architecture	1995	Taschen
Chicago Apartments	Neil Harris	Architecture	2004	Acanthus Press
Contemporary Architectural Drawings	Janet Parks; Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library	Architecture	1991	Pomegranate Communications
Contemporary Shops in the United States	Emrich Nicholson	Architecture	1946	Architectural Book Publishing Co.
Das Thonet Buch	Alexander von Vegesack	Architecture	1987	Bangert Verlag
Decorative Art 1931 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1931	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1932 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1932	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1933 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1933	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1934 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1934	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1935 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1935	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1937 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1937	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1938 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1938	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1939 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1939	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1940 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1940	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1941 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1941	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1943-1948 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1948	The Studio Ltd.
Decorative Art 1949 The Studio Year Book	null	Architecture	1949	The Studio Ltd.
Design for Life	Susan Yelavich	Architecture	1997	Cooper Hewitt Design Museum & Rizzoli
Designed for Concrete	null	Architecture	1936	Portland Cement
Deutsche Stahlrohr Mobel	Alexander von Vegesack	Architecture	1986	Bangert Verlag
Directional Designs Fifties Furniture by Paul McCobb	Jennifer Lindbeck	Architecture	2000	Schiffer Publishing
Display	George Nelson	Architecture	1953	Whitney Publications
Distinguished Houses of Moderate Cost	Raymond Hand	Architecture	1936	Robert McBride & Co.
Dream Plaaces of Hollywood's Golden Age	David Wallace	Architecture	2006	Harry N Abrams
Dwelling on the Dunes Tel Aviv Modern Movement & Bauhaus Ideals	Nitza Metzger-Szmuk	Architecture	2004	Editions de l'eclat
Eeno Saarinen on His Work	Aline Saarinen	Architecture	1962	Yale University Press
Eileen Gray	Philippe Garner	Architecture	1993	Taschen
Eileen Gray	Peter Adam	Architecture	1987	Harry N Abrams
Erich Mendelsohn	null	Architecture	1930	Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag
Everyday Masterpieces: Memory and Modernity	Joselita Serra	Architecture	1988	Edizioni Panini
Facade	Tony & Peter Mackertich	Architecture	1976	Stonehill Publishing Co.
Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner	Donald Curl	Architecture	1992	Dover Publications
Form & Re-Form A Practical Handbook of Modern Interiors	Paul Frankl	Architecture	1930	Harper & Brothers
Frank Lloyd Wright	Spencer Hart	Architecture	1993	Barnes & Noble Books
Frank Lloyd Wright	Solomon Guggenheim Museum	Architecture	1960	Solomon Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright	Thomas Heinz	Architecture	1982	St. Martin's Press
Frank Lloyd Wright & Le Corbusier The Great Dialogue	Thomas Doremus	Architecture	1985	Van Nostrand Reinhold
Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect for the Twentieth Century	Robin Langley Sommer	Architecture	1993	Brompton Books
Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1936	Yukio Futagawa	Architecture	1985	A.D.A. Edita Tokyo
Frank Lloyd Wright Preserving an Architectural Heritage	David Hanks	Architecture	1989	E.P. Dutton
Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park & River Forest	Frances Steiner	Architecture	1983	Sigma Press
Frank O. Gehry The Architect's Studio	Henry Art Gallery	Architecture	2000	Henry Art Gallery
From Bauhaus to Our House	Tom Wolfe	Architecture	1981	Farrar Straus Giroux
Futurism	Joshua Taylor	Architecture	1961	Museum of Modern Art
GA Houses 60	Tadao Ando	Architecture	1999	Yukio Futagawa
Googie Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture	Alan Hess	Architecture	1985	Chronicle Books
Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright & Prairie School Architecture in Oak Park	Paul Sprague	Architecture	1986	Chicago Review Press
Hans J. Wegner On Design	Jens Bernsen	Architecture	1995	Danish Design Centre
Home Decorator's Idea Book	null	Architecture	1931	Armstrong Cork Co.
Home Owners Catalogues	null	Architecture	1936	F.W. Dodge Corp.
Homes	Editors of Progressive Architecture	Architecture	1947	Reinhold Publishing Corp.
Homes Small Medium Large	Editors of Progressive Architecture	Architecture	1947	Reinhold Publishing
Homes in a Box Modern Homes from Sears Roebuck	null	Architecture	1998	Schiffer Publishing
House & Garden Book of Small Houses	Robert Harling	Architecture	1961	Conde Nast
If You Want To Build A House	Elizabeth Mock	Architecture	1946	Museum of Modern Art
In the Pink Dorothy Draper	Carleton Varney	Architecture	2006	Pointed Leaf Press
Interiors Book of Offices	Lois Wagner Green	Architecture	1959	Whitney Library of Design
Interiors Book of Restaurants	William Wilson Atkin & Joan Adler	Architecture	1960	Whitney Publications
Interiors Second Book of Offices	John Pile	Architecture	1969	Whitney Library of Design
Jean Prouve	Jan van Geest	Architecture	1991	Taschen
Joseph Maria Olbrich Architecture Plates of 1901-1914	Peter Haiko; Brend Krimmel	Architecture	1988	Rizzoli
Joseph Urban	John Loring	Architecture	2009	Abrams
Joseph Urban Architecture Theatre Opera Film	Randolph Carter; Robert Reed Cole	Architecture	1992	Abbeville Press
Julia Morgan, Architect	Sara Holmes Boutelle	Architecture	1988	Cross River Press
Julius Shulman Architecture & its Photography	Peter Gossel	Architecture	1998	Taschen
Julius Shulman Modernism Rediscovered Vols. 1 to 3	null	Architecture	2007	Taschen
Keck & Keck	Robert Boyce	Architecture	1993	Princeton Architectural Press
La Maison de Verre	Pierre Chareau	Architecture	1988	A.D.A. Edita Tokyo
Le Corbusier Talks with Students	Pierre Chase	Architecture	1999	Princeton Architectural Press
Lighting in Architecture	Walter Kohler; Wassili Luckhardt	Architecture	1959	Reinhold Publishing
Lobby Design Hotels & Offices	Alan Phillips	Architecture	1991	Rotovision
Lost New York	Nathan Silver	Architecture	1967	Weathervane Books
Louis Herman de Koninck Architect of Modern Times	Maurice Culot	Architecture	1989	Fondation pour l'Architecture
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	Arthur Drexler	Architecture	1977	Museum of Modern Art
Marcel Breuer Furniture & Interiors	Christopher Wilk	Architecture	1981	Museum of Modern Art
Marcel Breuer: Architect & Designer	Peter Blake	Architecture	1949	Architectural Record
Masters of World Architecture Alvar Aalto	Frederick Gutheim	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Antonio Gaudi	George Collins	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright	Vincent Scully, Jr.	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Le Corbusier	Francoise Choay	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Louis Sullivan	Albert Bush-Brown	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe	Arthur Drexler	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Pier Luigi Nervi	Ada Louise Huxtable	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Masters of World Architecture Walter Gropius	James Marston Fitch	Architecture	1960	George Braziller
Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History	Sigfried Giedion	Architecture	1948	Oxford University Press & University Of Minnesota Press
Michael Graves	Karen Nichols	Architecture	1995	Rizzoli
Mies Van Der Rohe	Claire Zimmerman	Architecture	2006	Taschen
Mies Van Der Rohe	Philip Johnson	Architecture	1947	Museum of Modern Art
Modern Architecture 1920-1945	Kenneth Frampton; Yukio Futagawa	Architecture	1983	Rizzoli
Modern Architecture Pop-Up	Anton Radevsky & David Sokol	Architecture	2005	Universe Publishing
Modern Picture Houses & Theaters	P. Morton Shand	Architecture	1930	J.B. Lippincott Co.
Modernes Wohnen	Erika Brodner	Architecture	1954	Verlag Hermann Rinn
Modernism at Mid-Century The Architecture of the USAF Academy	Robert Bruegmann	Architecture	1994	University of Chicago Press
Modernizing Old Houses	Henry Lionel & Ottalie Williams	Architecture	1948	Doubleday & Co.
Moholy Nagy	Richard Kostelanetz	Architecture	1970	Praeger Publishing
More Craftsman Homes	Gustav Stickley	Architecture	1982	Dover Publications
Motels Hotels Restaurants & Bars	Architectural Record	Architecture	1960	F.S. Dodge
New York 1900 Metropolitan Architecture & Urbanism 1890-1915	Robert Stern	Architecture	1983	Rizzoli Publishing
New York 1960 Architecture & Urbanism Between WWII and the Bicentennial	Robert Stern	Architecture	1995	Monacelli Press
One Thousand New York Buildings	Bill Harris	Architecture	2002	Black Dog & Leventhal
Open House Unbound Space & the Modern Dwelling	Dung Ngo; Shamir Zion	Architecture	2002	Rizzoli
Paul R. Williams, Architect A Legacy of Style	Karen Hudson	Architecture	1993	Rizzoli
Pierre Chareau	Esther da Costa Meyer	Architecture	2016	Yale University Press
Pierre Chareau	Marc Vellay; Kenneth Frampton	Architecture	1985	Rizzoli
Pierre Chareau Architecte un Art Interieur	null	Architecture	1993	Editions Centre Georges Pompidou
Private Houses An International Survey	Werner Weidert	Architecture	1967	Praeger Publishers
Pueblo Deco	Carla Breeze	Architecture	1990	Rizzoli
R.M. Schindler	James Steele	Architecture	1999	Taschen
R.M. Schindler Architect 1887-1953	August Sarnitz	Architecture	1988	Rizzoli
R.M. Schindler Composition & Construction	Lionel March; Judith Sheine	Architecture	1993	Academy Editions
Raymond Loewy Pioneer of American Industrial Design	Angela Schonberger	Architecture	1990	Prestel Verlag
Rediscovering Art Deco U.S.A	Barbra Baer Capitman	Architecture	2002	Hennessey & Ingalls
Residential Architecture in Southern California	Paul Robinson Hunter	Architecture	1939	American Institute of Architects
Restaurants, Lounges, Bars Contemporary Decor	Deering Davis	Architecture	1950	Architectural Book Publishing
Richard Neutra & the Search for Modern Architecture	Thomas Hines	Architecture	1994	University of California Press
Richard Neutra Promise & Fulfillment 1919-1932	Dione Neutra	Architecture	1986	Southern Illinois University Press
Richard Neutra on Building Mystery & Realities of the Site	Richard Neutra	Architecture	1951	Morgan & Morgan
Royal Festival Hall London County Council	Leslie Martin; Peter Moro	Architecture	1992	Phaidon Press
Saarinen House & Garden A Total Work of Art	Gregory Wittkopp	Architecture	1995	Harry Abrams Publishers
Sante Fe Style	Christine Mather; Sharon Woods	Architecture	1986	Rizzoli
Scandinavian Design	Eileene Harrison Beer	Architecture	1976	The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Scremin - Mobili d'Arte	Irene de Guttry; Maria Paola Maino	Architecture	1997	PMT
See-Through Houses	Catherine Slessor	Architecture	2001	Ryland Peters & Small
Shaker Built	Paul Rocheleau; June Sprigg	Architecture	1994	The Moncelli Press
Shanghai's Art Deco Master Paul Veysseyer's Architecture in the French Concession	Spencer Dodington & Charles Lagrange	Architecture	2014	Earnshaw Books Ltd.
Shop America Midcenture Storefront Design 1938-1950	Jim Heimann	Architecture	2007	Taschen
Shops & Stores	Morris Ketchum, Jr.	Architecture	1948	Reinhold Publishing Corp.
Shops & Stores Revised Edition	Morris Ketchum, Jr.	Architecture	1957	Reinhold Publishing Corp.
Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings	Judith Dupre	Architecture	2013	Black Dog & Leventhal
Small Homes in the New Tradition	Francois Morand	Architecture	1959	Sterling Publishing
Space For Living	Paul Frankl	Architecture	1938	Doubleday Doran
Structure in Art & in Science	Gyorgy Kepes	Architecture	1965	George Braziller
Stuhle Aus Stahl Metallmobel 1925-1940	Jan van Geest	Architecture	1980	Verlag der Buchhandlung
Swimming Pools of Beauty	Universal Atlas Cement Co.	Architecture	1926	Universal Atlas Cement Co.
Terra-Cotta Skyline	Susan Tunick	Architecture	1997	Princeton Architectural Press
The American Home	Magazine	Architecture	September 1933	Country Life American Home Corp.
The Architecture Pack	Ron Van Der Meer; Deyan Sudjic	Architecture	1997	Van Der Meer Publishing
The Architecture of R.M. Schindler	Elizabeth Smith; Michael Darling	Architecture	2001	MOCA
The Architecture of Richard Neutra from International Style to California Modern	Arthur Drexler; Thomas Hines	Architecture	1982	Museum of Modern Art
The Beautiful Bronx	Lloyd Ultan	Architecture	1979	Arlington House
The Complete Book of Home Modernizing	Saamuel Paul; Robert Stone	Architecture	1953	H.S. Stuttman Co.
The Delineator's Prize $3,000 Houses	null	Architecture	1909	B.W. Dodge & Co.
The Empire State Building	Theodore James, Jr.	Architecture	1975	Harper & Row
The Florida Tropical Home at A Century of Progress 1933	James Kuhne; Percival Goodman	Architecture	1933	photocopy
The Home Idea Book	null	Architecture	1939	Johns Manville
The Modern House	F.R.S. Yorke	Architecture	1934	The Architectural Press
The Modern House in America	James & Katherine Morrow Ford	Architecture	1946	Architectural Book Publishing
The Modern House in England	F.R.S. Yorke	Architecture	1937	The Architectural Press
The New Architecture	Alfred Roth	Architecture	1946	Les Editions d'Architecture
The New Architecture & The Bauhaus	Walter Gropius	Architecture	1965	MIT Press
The Second Treasury of Contemporary Houses	Editors of Architectural Record	Architecture	1959	F.W. Dodge Corp.
The Specialty Shop	Jose Fernandez	Architecture	1950	Architectural Book Publishing Co.