"Addison Mizner: Architect To The Affluent A Sketchbook Raisonne Of His Work" 1983 OLENDORF, William (SOLD)

OLENDORF, William

TOLF, Robert [text by]

[181] pp.

Gale Graphics

1983

9 1/8" x 12 1/4"

Fine/ Fine

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Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of sketches, with a fold-out sketch in the middle. 194 sketches of Mizner's work by William Olendorf. Preface by Michael L. Ainslie, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; foreword by Jon A. von Gunst-Andersen, curator of the Addison Mizner Collection, Historical Society, Palm Beach County

Addison Cairns Mizner (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers. In the 1920s Mizner was the best-known and most-discussed living American architect.: Palm Beach, Florida, which he "transformed", was his home, and most of his houses are there. He believed that architecture should also include interior and garden design, and set up Mizner Industries to have a reliable source of components. He was "an architect with a philosophy and a dream." Boca Raton, Florida, an unincorporated small farming town that was established in 1896, became the focus of Mizner's most famous development project.