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Title: Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History by Andrew Alpern ISBN: 0-486-27370-9 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The luxury apartment house through the decades
Comment: Architectural historian Andrew Alpern takes the reader through a survey of luxury apartment buildings on Manhattan Island. There are 34 chapters, of which 28 are descriptions of particular buildings, their histories, and their unique features, each illustrated by one or more large b&w photographs. The book includes four floor plans. Buildings discussed include the Majestic, Century, Ansonia, London Terrace, Beresford, Osborne, and Alwyn Court. There are also six chapters dealing with more general topics: British 'antecedents of American apartments,' famous courtyard buildings, office-to-residence conversions, classic buildings of Fifth Avenue, double-height studios for artists, and changing fashions in floor plans.
There is substantial overlap with Alpern's earlier book, 'New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments,' although the two books were clearly separately written works. That earlier book is aimed at the reader whose interest is mainly in floor plans, while the reader who is more interested in detailed narrative descriptions might prefer 'Luxury Apartment Houses.'
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST FOR NEW YORKERS!
Comment: An interesting overview of the design and evolutions of apartment bulidings in NYC, originally published as the very hard to find 'APARTMENTS FOR THE AFFLUENT.' Cretainly good fun for todays real estate conscious New Yorker with photos, floorplans and even original selling prices of NY's tonier buildings.
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Title: New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments With Original Floor Plans from the Dakota, River House, Olympic Tower and Other Great Buildings by Andrew Alpern ISBN: 048625318X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter by Andrew Alpern, Rosario Candela, J. E. R. Carpenter ISBN: 0926494201 Publisher: Acanthus Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address by Stephen Birmingham ISBN: 081560338X Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915 by Robert A. M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, John Montague Massengale ISBN: 0847819345 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth by Steven Ruttenbaum ISBN: 0917439090 Publisher: Balsam Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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