The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 25, Design, Culture, Identity – The American Hotel, 2005

Content includes:
The American Hotel – Molly W. Berger
Millionaires’ Elysiums: The Luxury Apartment Hotels of Schultze and Weaver – Andrew S. Dolkart
The Rich Man’s City: Hotels and Mansions of Gilded Age New York – Molly W. Berger
Early Twentieth-Century Hotel Architects and the Origins of Standardization – Lisa Pfueller Davidson
The New South in the Ancient City: Flagler’s St. Augustine Hotels and Sectional Reconciliation – Reiko Hillyer
Revisiting Hotels and Other Lodgings: American Tourist Spaces through the Lens of Black Pleasure-Travelers, 1880-1950 – Myra B. Young Armstead
Princes and Maids of the City Hotel: The Cultural Politics of Commercial Hospitality in America – A. K. Sandoval-Strausz and Daniel Levinson Wilk
William Price’s Traymore Hotel: Modernity in the Mass Resort – George E. Thomas and Susan Nigra Snyder
Merchandising Miami Beach: Morris Lapidus and the Architecture of Abundance – Alice T. Friedman
Living Large: The Brash, Bodacious Hotels of Dorothy Draper – Mitchell Owens
“Wrecking the Joint”: The Razing of City Hotels in the First Half of the Twentieth Century – Bernard L. Jim

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Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts
Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts is an academic journal exploring intersections of design, decoration, and propaganda in visual culture.

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