This latest volume of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explores the material, social, and cultural world of the large American hotel. Ten richly illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created this distinctive and complex urban institution, from Gilded Age New York to 19505 Miami Beach. Broadly imagined and yet cohesively focused, the essays examine such major historical processes as consumption and modernism and, race, class, and gender.
The Wolfsonian-Florida Internationat University is a museum and research center in Miami Beach, Florida, that investigates the ways in which design, shapes and reflects human experience. lts exhibitions, public programs, and publications promote the examínation of modern material culture to enhance the understanding and appreciation of objects as agents and expressions o social, polítical, and technological change. The collection features decorative and fine art, architectural design, graphic art, rare books, and ephemera, predominantly from North America and Europe.
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