Research Catalog

Title

Addison Mizner : architect of fantasy and romance / Beth Dunlop ; photography by Steven Brooke.

Author

Dunlop, Beth, 1947-

Publication

• New York : Rizzoli, 2019.
• New York : Random House
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brooke, Steven
• Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933.

Description

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 x 32 cm

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.

Alternative Title

Architect of fantasy and romance

Subjects

• Architects
• Palm Beach (Fla.) > Buildings, structures, etc > History
• Architects > United States > Biography
• Biography
• Palm Beach (Fla.) > Buildings, structures, etc > History > Pictorial works
• Florida > Palm Beach
• United States
• History
• Buildings
• Pictorial works
• Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index.

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.

Call Number

JQG 19-747

ISBN

• 9780847863921
• 0847863921

LCCN

2018962111

OCLC

1045173838

Author

Dunlop, Beth, 1947- author.

Title

Addison Mizner : architect of fantasy and romance / Beth Dunlop ; photography by Steven Brooke.

Publisher

New York : Rizzoli, 2019.

Distributor

New York : Random House

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index.

Added Author

Brooke, Steven, photographer.

Container of (work): Mizner, Addison, 1872-1933. Works. Selections.

Research Call Number

JQG 19-747