FLORIDA BOOKS
Palm Beach:
Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner,
the eclectic bon vivant who designed and presided over the Boca Raton Resort and
Club (with his pet monkey on his shoulder) as well as many of the most striking Spanish-style
fantasia homes in Palm Beach County for the Jazz Age elite --
Fascinating reading -- This 9”x12”, 240 page volume contains
185 photos of Mizner’s best and most fabulous. $18.
Tropical Style: Private Palm Beach, An insider’s tour of twenty of the most unique and fabulous homes (and their owners, including Lilly Pulitzer Rousseau and Dorothy Spreckels Munn) in Palm Beach – from the rococo splendor of Trump’s Mar a Lago to the ultra modern chic of a home by Richard Meier to a retreat in a landmark church to a luxuriously appointed yacht. A fascinating glimpse into the lifestyle of “rich and famous” (180 pp, 10” x 10” x 1”, hardcover, published 1998) $ 33.
Palm
Beach: An Architectural Legacy
Details
the meticulous restorations of over twenty great houses and public buildings
from 1988 to the present -- each has won the Preservation Foundation of Palm
Beach's coveted Ballinger Award. The cycle of building and restoration
chronicled here encompasses one of America's enduring architectural landscapes,
as well as the dynamics of its social history. Public and private structures
designed by some of the style-setting early architects are depicted, including
the works of Addison
Mizner, Joseph Urban, and Maurice Fatio, as well as anonymous designers whose
feats of imagination rivaled those of the most celebrated professionals.
Published in 2003 11” x
11”x 1” 240 pp
$48.50
(Cover Price is $65.)
Also available, Palm Beach Houses, the first book by this author published in 1993.