对“美国装饰艺术”的广泛探索，探讨了芝加哥在发展定义了二十世纪中产阶级风格的建筑，平面设计和产品设计中的关键作用

弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特（Frank Lloyd Wright）《失落的中途花园》（Midway Gardens），标志性的《阳光组合大师》（Sunbeam Mixmaster）和马歇尔•菲尔德（Marshall Field）**的橱窗展示：尽管规模和媒介不同，但每件艺术品都属于20世纪上半叶在芝加哥发展起来的装饰艺术风格的主流。这本雄心勃勃的1910至1950年间的城市建筑，产品，工业和平面设计概览，为这种风格提供了崭新的视角，这种风格将代表美国中产阶级的主要现代主义模式。

本书以325张图像作为华丽的插图，叙述了装饰艺术在101项主要作品中的演变，经过精心策划和按时间顺序组织，不仅讲述了一种风格，而且讲述了一系列感性的故事。来自该领域**人物的评论文章讨论了装饰艺术创造整个视觉世界的方式，这个视觉世界扩展到建筑，广告，家用物品，服装甚至食品设计。通过采用这种全面的方法来研究20世纪美国最普遍的表达方式之一，《芝加哥装饰艺术》概述这种有影响力的风格以及体现这种风格的大城市。

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century

Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class.

Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.