The author recreates the life of the visionary artist and architect who recreated the Palm Beach skyline in the 1920s by catering to the excesses of his wealthy, flamboyant clients. 12,500 first printing.
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Caroline Seebohm is the author of <b>No Regrets: The Life of Marietta Tree</b> and <b>The Man Who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast</b> as well as several illustrated books on art and architecture.
ng 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. <br><br>Addison Mizner’s Mediterranean-style mansions―with their stucco walls, tiled roofs, and Moorish accents―are much-admired Florida icons. In <b>Boca Rococo</b>, renowned author and biographer Caroline Seebohm introduces the flamboyant genius behind these pastel palaces.<br><br>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 r
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