Addison Mizner : architect of fantasy and romance /
The go-to architect for the Jazz Age elite of south Florida and beyond, Addison Mizner created a new architectural style and a new lifestyle for the wealthy and socially prominent of Palm Beach America's preeminent winter resort town of the time. Building mansions, clubs, hotels and apartment h...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Rizzoli International Publications,
[2019]
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| Summary: | The go-to architect for the Jazz Age elite of south Florida and beyond, Addison Mizner created a new architectural style and a new lifestyle for the wealthy and socially prominent of Palm Beach America's preeminent winter resort town of the time. Building mansions, clubs, hotels and apartment houses with a bent toward fantasy and romance, Mizner established a design vocabulary and tradition that to this day influences architects, designers and builders. Evocative of old Spain, Venice and the Moorish capitals of Granada and Seville, Mizner's work is a dream realized of courtyards with fountains, trellises with climbing bougainvillea, arched windows, glazed tile floors, spiraling marble columns and expansive interiors with grand proportions. This book explores Mizner's legacy through the extraordinary houses and other structures he built, including such storied homes as La Guerida, an 11-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, best known now as the Kennedy Estate the place where JFK composed his Inaugural Address. Known for their beauty, opulence, fantastic detail, as well as the stories of those individuals who have lived or played in them, the houses and buildings of Addison Mizner stand as monuments to grand living and romance made in stone and iron, stucco and tile. |
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| Item Description: | Color illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 304 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0847863921 9780847863921 |