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Addison Mizner : architect of fantasy and romance / Beth Dunlop ; photography by Steven Brooke.
Fine Arts Library NA737.M59 D86 2019
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA737.M59 D86 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunlop, Beth, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--History--Florida--Palm Beach.
- Buildings.
- History.
- Florida--Palm Beach.
- Buildings--History--Florida--Palm Beach--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933.
- Mizner, Addison.
- Architects--United States--Biography.
- Architects.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 32 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Random House.
- Other Title:
- Architect of fantasy and romance
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, 2019.
- 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: 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.
- Contents:
- Addison Mizner : Mythmaker, storyteller, architect
- New palaces (for a new American royalty) : Casa Amado; Louwana; El Solano; Villa Flora; Villa dei Fiori; Lagomar; Collado Hueco; La Guerida; Gulfstream Club
- Dreams and schemes : The Cloister Inn / Boca Raton Hotel and Resort; Old Floresta
- The inventor
- Postscript : Addison Mizner's scrapbooks ffer a rare insight into the architect's artistry and inspiration / by Suzanne Kane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Container of: Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933. Works. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780847863921
- 0847863921
- OCLC:
- 1045173838
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