Chicago Interiors - Softcover

Lowe, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809259923 ISBN 13: 9780809259922

Publisher: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1983

Synopsis

No one doubts the importance of a building's exterior. Chicago itself is symbolized by the Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the John Hancock. But it is the interiors of buildings that reveal changing fashions and taste, the way people think of themselves and their times. In this book, David Lowe, noted authority on Chicago art, architecture, and mores, leads the reader through the doors of Chicago's beautiful restaurants and impressive hotels, its sumptuous residences and exclusive clubs, its powerful train stations and chic night spots. Here is the post-fire Palmer House, the LaSalle Hotel's roof garden, Astor Street's Court of the Golden Hand when it was a private home, the South Shore Country Club in its heyday, and old Washington Park Race Track. There are some 250 rare illustrations in this book, many reproduced here for the first time, many of vanished places. They are the result of long research in the great pictorial archives of Chicago and other US cities. This is a book to delight those for whom places like the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the Pump Room, and the Potter Palmer castle are magic. David Lowe, whose roots go back three generations in Chicago, is also the author of the prize-winning Lost Chicago, The Great Chicago Fire and of a book of postcard views of old Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Contemporary Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809259923
• ISBN 13: 9780809259922
• Binding: Paperback