A and I attended the book launch of Tim Morawetz' Art Deco Architecture in Toronto last night. We met Tim who signed our copy of the book, and talked with a few others. Fun night.
I'm really excited to read this book! It's organized like both a coffee table book as well as a walking tour guide book of Toronto. It's full of amazing pictures and descriptions of buildings all over Toronto, which has had way more art deco influence than I realized. There are some well-known buildings with hidden treasures, and some secret roofs and facades that I imagine most of us pass by without noticing. Now I'm going to start looking in detail.
Tim is passionate about art deco architecture as a 30 year old hobby, on the side from his career and his family. It's a tribute to the beauty that was the functioning norm of the 1920s and 30s, and much of it reminds me of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
The book is $40 and can be ordered here.
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