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TULSA ART DECO: AN ARCHITECTURAL ERA 1925 - 1942, edited by Susan Petersmeyer Henneke, contemporary photos by David Halpern, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, stated first edition, illustrated with 150 vintage photos and late 20th century photos, 1980.
BOOK CONDITION: near fine.
The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks.
There is no bookplate or signature of a prior owner.
The edges of the first and last free endpapers are variously chipped.
This is not a library book nor a remainder.
The green cloth boards are in near fine condition.
The dust jacket is intact but in poor condition (chipping and tears along edges).
12 ½ x 11 ¾, 204 pages, 66 ounces.
XX [From the dust jacket flaps] "Art Deco was damned as too popular and too decorative.
For years it was dismissed as misguided architecture.
Then the new awareness of historical preservation revealed the bond between the three Art Deco styles and modern American history: The Zigzag 1920s (skyscrapers symbolizing progress); the Streamline 1930s (curved lines for speed), the solid PWA Classical style of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
TULSA ART DECO reveals the significant contribution of the southwest in this architectural era?and how Tulsa was unique In a rhapsody of terra cotta, the skyline of the 'Oil Capital of the World' sprang up on the prairie in the 1920s, boasting the works of three towering architects Barry Byrne, Bruce Goff and Frank Lloyd Wright.
This exciting combination ?the jazz age tempo, the oil boom extravagance and the architects' imagination ?gave Tulsa a rare Art Deco heritage.
Individually, the buildings of 'Terra Cotta City ' are intriguing Art Deco cathedrals, skyscrapers, schools, residences, service stations.
Collectively, they are breathtaking.
Here is the story of that special Art Deco city in the flush days of Sinclair, Skelly and Getty.
It is a kaleidoscope of history and architecture with a vibrant cast of characters.
Here are monuments and mistakes, architects and patrons in collaboration and in epic battles.
A revolutionary Art Deco church, recognized world-wide, designed to symbolize open, praying hands.
A musician's Riverside Studio with glass windows suggesting black notes on a keyboard (and a muralist screaming, 'White is the color of insanity!').
Miss Bobbie's House', Bruce Goff's first design.
It had everything ?except a kitchen.
A shiny Vitrolite service station that was the prototype of the Streamline design, and Will Rogers High School (with classrooms color coded for learning) reflecting the 'wave of the future ' in education.
The golden-domed Pythian skyscraper, cut short? literally by the Depression.
And Frank Lloyd Wright's famous residential building 'Westhope' with its perpetually leaking roof.
('That's what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain,' the owner said.
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