architect of fantasy and romance Dunlop, Beth creator Brooke, Steven Mizner, Addison text bibliography nyu 2019 1st edition. monographic eng

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304 p. ill.; photo.; col. 26 cm. The work of the acclaimed designer of villas in Spanish, Moorish, Venetian, and Mediterranean style, in all-new color photography. 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. Addison Mizner : Mythmaker, storyteller, architect -- New palaces (for a new American royalty) -- Casa Amado / Palm Beach, 1919 -- Louwana / Palm Beach, 1919 -- El Solano / Palm Beach, 1919 -- Villa Flora / Palm Beach, 1920 -- Villa dei Fiori / Palm Beach, 1921 -- Lagomar / Palm Beach, 1919 -- Collado Hueco / Palm Beach, 1919 -- La Guerida / Palm Beach, 1923 -- Gulfstream Club / Palm Beach, 1924 -- Dreams and schemes -- The Cloister Inn / Boca Raton Hotel and Resort / Boca Raton, 1925 -- Old Floresta / Boca Raton, 1925 -- The inventor -- Postscript : Addison Mizner's scrapbooks offer a rare insight into the architect's artistry and inspiration / by Suzanne Kane -- Beth Dunlop, Photography by Steven Brooke. Include index Include Bibliography Mizner, Addison 1872-1933 Architects United States Biography Buildings Structure History Palm Beach, Florida Pictorial works Florida Estados Unidos Palm Beach Buildings, structures Pictorial works United States NA737.M59 D86 2019 720.92 9780847863921 0847863921 2018962111 pucpr 181019 20220628151753.0 eng