Havana Deco

Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, Martino Fagiuoli

Praise for Havana Deco:

“As the sensational buildings, interiors, and furnishings in Havana Deco prove, Cuban artists and architects sexed up the Art Deco movement with Caribbean sultriness.”

 - Elle Decor

"Not even in Miami Beach's famed district do you see decorative panels like these or apartment buildings with such exquisite detail and exuberant Deco flair. Read, admire and weep, especially when you come to photographs of the deteriorated buildings of Centro Habana, so beautiful underneath the grime and decay. No Cuban collection is complete without this book."

—The Miami Herald

“[A]n eye-opening display of a not entirely lost Havana, where, judging from the beautiful images, some of the jewel-like structures have been preserved, if not rehabilitated....this book will whet the appetite of every Deco connoisseur.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“[A] rich, amusing, and eye-catching collection of buildings and various architectural details (doors, iron work, cornices, steps, art objects, windows, interiors) that display Deco in the best light. This is eye-dessert of the best kind.”

 - The Morning News

Overview

An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own. Exteriors and interior spaces, the graphic artists who spearheaded Art Deco's popularity, monumental sculpture, and the contributions of painters are explored here in rich detail.

About the Authors

Martino Fagiuoli, photographer, lives in Verona, Italy; Alejandro G. Alonso, critic and journalist, and Pedro Contreras, art historian, live in Havana.

ISBN 10: 0-393-73232-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-73232-0
November 2007 / 300 color photographs / 192 pages / Hardcover