Art Deco Airports: Airports of Dreams From 1920's & 1930's Hardcover – March 15, 2016

Fantastic for nostalgic airport and art deco fans combined. Beautiful illustrations and photos with rich written history from this era of airports and travel, all around the world.

I had read about this book in "Classic Wings" magazine and I have not been disappointed. The art work and information is amazing. Great book for the coffee table.

Beautiful book and informative. In hotels suites and guests love it.

Nicely done paintings and postcards give a nice atmospheric artistic look of the period airport terminals. However, in spite of the photos, it is sorely lacking in details (floor plans, airport plans, etc.). As such, it is mostly an art book, with no pretense of technical history.

The title is 'Art Deco airports' but it's much more far-ranging than a narrow architectural survey of these places. It looks at eleven in Europe and twenty-six in the US and oddly for a book from an Australian publisher nothing on airports in that country or even New Zealand which has the art deco center of the southern hemisphere in Napier on the North Island.European airports get a better showing than those in America, Croydon Aerodrome, London's main one in the twenties, gets sixteen pages but Chicago's Municipal only one page. The copy throughout the book seems to be based on the social history of airports and the aircraft that landed there rather than architectural detail and there are no flat plans.Probably half the book is illustrations, a mix of historical photos, printed ephemera and Rosie Louise's fascinating photo-based vector graphics. There are several dozen of these in various sizes and I thought, because of their precision, they sat rather oddly with the historical black and whites that varied enormously in quality.This will probably be the only book on the subject and worth it for Ms Louise's lovely vector work. Incidentally, I bought this book from the publisher's website at a remarkably good price but elsewhere on the net the cost seemed excessive. You can look inside the book at Westread Book Reviews then click 2019 and April.