The Art Deco City - Napier, New Zealand

Art Deco Trust, Napier, New Zealand. 2006. Previous owner's sticker inside.

Illustrated throughout, with descriptive text and photographs about Napier and nearby Hastings and their regeneration after the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931, 7.8 on the Richer scale (see companion book The Hawke's Bay Earthquake). The people of the region
chose to rebuild a new town in the art deco style, a new look for a new city. This style was fashionable, it used a form of construction to protect from future earthquakes, and it was cheap. Pages of coated paper, as new, where you will see what this new city and nearby town looks like after their renaissance. 48 pages.