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"When Addison Mizner built his opulent, glamorous mansions along the coast of southern Florida in the 1920s, he perfectly expressed America's growing power and confidence. The lyrical, Mediterranean aesthetic of Mizner's buildings that has come to define Palm Beach and Boca Raton characterizes one of the most extravagant periods in American history, when affluence and celebrity came together in a triumph of excess. Mizner perfectly embodied this flamboyant time.
A beloved and colorful personality, he adored the headlines and they adored him back. His big build and wicked wit made him welcome in the social circles of San Francisco, New York, and Palm Beach. Yet one thing trumped his incorrigible personality. Despite enormous competition from his more conventional contemporaries, Addison Mizner proved to be one of the country's greatest domestic architects of the twentieth century.".
"His is a supremely American story. Reckless and reprobate, embroiled in family conflict, hugely popular with the fashionable set, vilified by critics, lionized after death, amassing huge wealth and then dying debt-ridden, Mizner lived a life that can be counted among the great American epics.
Encompassing the most distant horizons of the American landscape, Caroline Seebohm draws on a cache of untapped materials - including never-before-seen plans and drawings - to place Mizner in the pantheon of legendary American characters.
With skill and expertise, Seebohm reconstructs Mizner's pursuit of immortality through the palaces and villas he constructed and shows us how, thanks to his vision, the splendor and elegance of those buildings have come down to us as a dazzling record of a wild and wonderful period in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Addison Mizner (1872-1933)Times
20th century, 20e siècleShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Boca Rococo: how Addison Mizner invented Florida's gold coast
2001, Clarkson Potter
in English
0609605151 9780609605158
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index.
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