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Author_Karen Greene
Author_Lynne Lavelle
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393733402
- Weight: 434g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 29 Dec 2014
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mailboxes and their chutes were once as essential to the operation of any major hotel, office, civic, or residential building as the front door. In time they developed a decorative role, in a range of styles and materials, and as American art deco architecture flourished in the 1920s and 1930s they became focal points in landmark buildings and public spaces: the GE Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Woolworth Building, 29 Broadway, the St. Regis Hotel, York & Sawyer’s Salmon Tower, the Waldorf Astoria, and many more.
While many mailboxes have been removed, forgotten, disused, or painted over (and occasionally repurposed), others are still in use, are polished daily, and hold a place of pride in lobbies throughout the country.
A full-color photographic survey of beautiful early mailboxes, highlighting those of the grand art deco period, together with a brief history of the innovative mailbox-and-chute system patented in 1883 by James Cutler of Rochester, New York, Art Deco Mailboxes features dozens of the best examples of this beloved, dynamic design’s realization in the mailboxes of New York City as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Karen Greene, a clinical psychologist, lifelong photographer, and lover of Art Deco architecture and design, lives in New York City. Lynne Lavelle is Editor of Period Homes magazine and a freelance writer.
