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Bombay Art Deco Architecture A Visual Journey 1930-1953 presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings\n\ncomprising residential, commercial and public architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the\n\nmid 1930s and 1940s. The architects, a small list of the first generation of modern Indian architects, were trained\n\nin western architectural traditions, if not actually in the West. These architects, influenced by the fashionable\n\naesthetic current in Europe, were eager to imbue the city with a new modern style. That style shares its provenance\n\nwith the Art Deco architecture of Miami Beach, termed Tropical Deco by Laura Cerwinske in her seminal 1981\n\nbook. Built in the same era, the Art Deco architecture of the two cities exhibits similar scale, geometry, tropical\n\nvocabulary, and love of romance.\n\nAuthor Navin Ramani lived in Bombay for 21 years, in an Art Deco apartment building called Court View\n\nformerly owned by his grandparents. Much of his childhood was spent exploring his Deco-rich neighbourhood.\n\nIt was not until Ramani moved to Miami in 1989 and encountered the Miami Beach Art Deco District that he\n\nrecognized the great architectural legacy of his hometown. But while that great treasury of Miami Beach hotels\n\nand apartments has been internationally recognized, nationally protected, and well documented, the larger\n\nassembly of Art Deco buildings in Bombay has, until now, been taken for granted. Bombay Art Deco Architecture\n\nprovides an insightful exploration of its beauty and abundance.
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ISBN : 9788174364470
Pages : 296
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