Emery Roth's New York Apartment Buildings: Incorporating "Mansions in the Clouds" by Steven Ruttenbaum

The definitive volume on one of New York’s most iconic residential architects

The long list of apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s includes names that will be familiar to any aficionado of Manhattan real estate: the Ritz Tower, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley. Roth’s buildings, which ranged across Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and historical revival styles, shaped the ideal of residential luxury that is still called to mind by the phrase “prewar buil...