Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture (American monograph series)

Curl, Donald Walter

ISBN 10: 0262031043 / ISBN 13: 9780262031042

Published by The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge, MA / London, England, 1984

About this Item

Stamp to the ffep top, jacket is sun faded around the front cover right side, mostly-clear spotting to the page edges not affecting interior but only just so in the bottom corner margin toward the rear. Text is clean. 'Within just seven years - from 1919 to 1926 - Addison Mizner established the elegant Spanish style as the distinctive style for Florida's resort architecture; founded his own factories to provide decorative elements for the many mansions, clubs, office buildings, apartments, and shops that he and his imitators built in this style; and, at Boca Raton, laid plans for the creation of a complete Spanish city. It was a remarkable achievement that was to have a lasting influence. . . Only recently has the interest of preservationists, environmentalists, and practicing architects in the postmodernist vein once again drawn attention to the freshness and innovation of Mizner's work.' Illustrated. 250 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture (American monograph series)
• Publisher: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge, MA / London, England
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262031043
• ISBN 13: 9780262031042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s.

Review

"If anything, Mizner's work is more relevant today than it was twenty years ago. Then, it was his work that seemed stale. Now Modern architecture is the thing that is stale and Mizner has renewed freshness."--Paul Goldberger, "The New York Times"