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 |
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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. |