ELY JACQUES KAHN

Arthur Tappan North

Arthur Tappan North: ELY JACQUES KAHN. New York: Whittlesey House, 1931. First edition [Contemporary American Architects series]. Quarto. Yellow fabricoid covered boards printed in black. Decorated endpapers. 120 pp. 105 black and white plates. Corners bruised and covers very lightly worn. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print and rather uncommon.A very good or better copy of this fragile, elegant production.

7.75 x 9.75 hardcover book with 120 pages and 105 black and white reproductions of Kahn's magnificent New York buildings from the 1920s. Endpapers feature a Hood decoration motif printed in light green: a beautifully-realized Art Deco Architectural monograph printed on matte paper.

Kahn is best known for his Art Deco skyscrapers which still dot the New York skyline. His forte was designing commercial structures with colorful and inventive exterior ornament and with deluxe lobbies, themselves masterpeices of art deco design. Many of the works from this period, the most interesting of his career and some of the best of their genre, are illustrated here. A beautifully-realized and produced volume.

Ely Jacques Kahn (1884 - 1972) was an American commercial architect most active in New York City between 1925 and 1931. Kahn was born in New York, the only son of a prosperous Austrian and French Jewish family. He attended Columbia University. Kahn was the father of noted New Yorker magazine writer Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., and author Ayn Rand worked in Kahn's office as research for The Fountainhead.

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