The Journal Of Decorative And Propaganda Arts 25: The American Hotel

by Berger, Molly W.

• ISBN13: 9781930776173
• ISBN10: 1930776179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This latest volume of the groundbreaking Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Artsexplores the material, social, and cultural world of the large American hotel. Ten richly illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created this distinctive and complex urban institution, from Gilded Age New York to 1950s Miami Beach. Broadly imagined and yet cohesively focused, the essays examine such major historical processes as consumption and modernism, and race, class, and gender. Topics include the lavish New York apartment hotels of Schultze and Weaver (the architects of the Waldorf-Astoria); the connection between hotels and mansions in the "rich man's city" of Gilded Age New York; the "bodacious" interior designs of Dorothy Draper; the flamboyant Miami Beach fantasies of Morris Lapidus; Henry Flagler's St. Augustine resorts; Atlantic City's old Traymore hotel; the social world of hotel chambermaids and clerks; the parallel world of African-American "pleasure travelers"; the trend toward efficiency and standardization; and the capitalist narrative of early-twentieth-century urban hotel demolitions.

Table of Contents

Millionaires' Elysiums: The Luxury Apartment Hotels of Schultze and Weaver	p. 10
The Rich Man's City: Hotels and Mansions of Gilded Age New York	p. 46
Early Twentieth-Century Hotel Architects and the Origins of Standardization	p. 72
The New South in the Ancient City: Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels and Sectional Reconciliation	p. 104
Revisiting Hotels and Other Lodgings: American Tourist Spaces through the Lens of Black Pleasure-Travelers, 1880-1950	p. 136
Princes and Maids of the City Hotel: The Cultural Politics of Commercial Hospitality in America	p. 160
William Price's Traymore Hotel: Modernity in the Mass Resort	p. 186
Merchandising Miami Beach: Morris Lapidus and the Architecture of Abundance	p. 216
Living Large: The Brash, Bodacious Hotels of Dorothy Draper	p. 254
"Wrecking the Joint": The Razing of City Hotels in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	p. 288
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