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Boca Rococo : How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast by Caroline Seebohm (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100609605151

ISBN-139780609605158

eBay Product ID (ePID)1886588

Product Key Features

Book TitleBoca Rococo : How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's GoldCoast

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Individual Architects & Firms / General, Regional, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / General

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorCaroline Seebohm

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight24.4 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-066886

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal720.92

SynopsisThe rollicking tale of the artist, adventurer, and visionary whose innovative architecture transformed Palm Beach and whose dramatic rise and fall mirrors the larger-than-life excesses of the 1920s. Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions-with their stucco walls, tiled roofs, and Moorish accents-are much-admired Florida icons. InBoca Rococo, renowned author and biographer Caroline Seebohm introduces the flamboyant genius behind these pastel palaces. Mizner was a leading San Francisco society figure in the 1890s, joined the Alaska Gold Rush, traveled to China, and made his way to an exploding turn-of-the-century New York. No formal training but huge natural talent established him as architect of the rich and famous. The getaways he designed made Palm Beach America's most elegant resort-and fed his dream of developing a "Venice-on-the-Ocean" in nearby Boca Raton. Mizner's plans ended with the collapse of Florida's real estate boom. He died in 1933, broken and bankrupt. Drawing on a huge cache of untapped materials-including measured plans and an unpublished autobiography-Seebohm restores Mizner to the pantheon of great architects and flamboyant Americans.

LC Classification NumberNA737.M59S44 2001