Boca Rococo How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast

When Addison Mizner built his opulent, glamorous mansions along the coast of southern Florida in the 1920s, he perfectly expressed America's growing power & confidence. The lyrical, Mediterranean aesthetic of Mizner's buildings that has come to define Palm Beach & Boca Raton characterizes one of the most extravagant periods in Amer. history, when affluence & celebrity came together in a triumph of excess. He proved to be one of the country's greatest domestic architects of the 20th century. Seebohm reconstructs Mizner's pursuit of immortality through the palaces & villas he constructed & shows how the splendor & elegance of those buildings have come down to us as a dazzling record of a wild & wonderful period in Amer. history. Illustrated.Seebohm, Caroline is the author of 'Boca Rococo How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756774349 and ISBN 0756774349.