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Municipal Art Society of New York, Published 2002. Wraps, 18 pp. plus 4 unnumbered pp.; 22 cm square; staple bound; illustrated throughout with color photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping to the edges and mild surface wear. Binding tight and staple bound, interior pages clean and unmarked.Exhibition catalog produced for the show "Beyond the Box: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Miami and New York," presented at the galleries of the Municipal Art Society of New York, March 13 to May 8, 2002, and originally mounted by the Urban Arts Committee of Miami Beach (October to December 2001) as "MiMo: Miami Modern Architecture, 1945-1972: A Photography Exhibit." The catalog pairs the postwar modernism of Miami Beach with that of New York, illustrated with color photographs of hotels, motels, banks, theaters, fire stations and commercial buildings by architects including Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Norman M. Giller and Gilbert Fein. Essays by John Kriskiewicz ("You've Arrived!") and Allan T. Shulman ("Miami Modern"), with an introduction by Barbara Faga and photographs by Dixi Carrillo, Thomas Delbeck, Robin Hill and Arthur Marcus. An early document of the MiMo (Miami Modern) preservation movement, closing with an index of the featured buildings and architects in Miami and New York.