This talk discusses the Art Nouveau designs of hotels in Cape Town from 1890 to 1911, prior to the Art Deco design of faceless high rise buildings, which replaced many of these designs. The talk describes twenty four of these hotels and discusses their architects. The original architectural drawings, which are stored in the Western Cape Archives, will be shown. This is a Cape Town story, long forgotten and seldom told, which will remind us of the many attractive hotels that once graced our streets over a century ago.
Michael Walker’s A4 book, which includes these drawings as well as the architects involved and the history of these hotels, will be on sale at R200 (click here for a review)
Book cover
Venue: Auditorium, Jewish Museum, 88 Hatfield Street, Cape Town
Time: 18:00
Cost: Members on presentation of valid 2017 membership card: free Non-members: a donation of R30.00
A Friends of the South African Museum event - samfriends@iziko.org.za
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