The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore the Sherry, the Pierre - these landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating them along with countless other hotels throughout the United States were the partners of a single architectural firm, now largely forgotten: Schultze & Weaver. Together, this duo - the former, an architect and the latter, an engineer - virtually invented the glamorous lifestyle made famous in Hollywood films like Grand Hotel Catering to the social elite of which they were themselves a part, Schultze & Waver synthesized the Old World style of Renaissance Italy, Moorish Spain, and Georgian England with all of the modern amenities that made hotel living luxurious.
This book presents portfolios of fifteen of the firms most spectacular hotels culminating in the, Art Moderne masterpiece of the Waldorf-Astoria Over two hundred period photographs and hand-colored architectural renderings chart the ascent of the American hotel in all its glory and glamour, before the Great Depression forever changed the lifestyles of America's rich and famous. Essays address the cultural and technological developments that underpin the creation of resort and residential hotels, including the elemental role . played by Schultze & Weaver,
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