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Addison Mizner

Addison Mizner

Architect of Fantasy and Romance

by Beth Dunlop and Steven Brooke
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/05/2019

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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: courtyards with fountains, trellises with climbing bougainvillea, arched windows, glazed tile floors, spiraling marble columns, 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 he 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.
ISBN:
9780847863921
9780847863921
Category:
Individual architects & architectural firms
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-05-2019
Publisher:
Rizzoli International Publications
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
305x254x0mm
Weight:
0.57kg

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