Featured BookSydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks

PRODUCT DETAILSThis title, Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks – Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay is ideal for lovers of history and architecture with the back story to so many of the buildings and apartment blocks in some of the city’s most chic real estate.

If only the walls could talk, we’d find out so much more about what went on inside them. However the tiny 1 sq km precinct of Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay is still a National Treasure containing the best collection of some 100 Art Deco (1930s and 40s) & Modernist (1960s) apartment blocks in Australia.

This book provides a self-guided 2-3 hour tour of this landmark area which was Sydney’s first exclusive suburb. It still retains remnants of its 19th century glory with some nine colonial mansions, but is even more distinctive because of its 20th century Art Deco and Modernist built heritage.Important Australian architects are represented with five beautiful Art Deco buildings by Emil Sodersten and five Modernist gems by Harry Seidler.

Features:

• Paperback, 194 pages
• Written and published by Art Deco authority and Elizabeth Bay local, Dr Peter Sheridan, AM.
• Includes an up to three hour walking guide to see the best of the Art Deco and Modernist architecture
• Extensive photographs throughout
• Handy size to take along as you walk
• Includes an excellent map with the buildings numbered
• Excellent index
• Published by  Dr Peter Sheridan

Dimensions: 13cm (l) x 21cm (h) x 1xm (w).