Beth Dunlop on Addison Mizner

Beth Dunlop is the author of Miami: Mediterranean Splendor and Deco Dreams and numerous other books, including Arquitectonica. She is editor in chief of Home Miami and an award-winning architecture critic of the Miami Herald, as well as contributor to several national design and architecture magazines. Addison Mizner: Architect of Fantasy and Romance (Rizzoli) is her latest book, which celebrates the work of the acclaimed designer of villas in Spanish, Moorish, Venetian, and Mediterranean style, in all-new color photography. The go-to architect for the Jazz Age elite of South Florida and beyond, Addison Mizner created a new architectural style and a new lifestyle for the wealthy and socially prominent of Palm Beach--America's preeminent winter resort town of the time. This book explores Mizner's legacy through the extraordinary houses and other structures he built, including such storied homes as La Guerida, an 11-bedroom Spanish Revival mansion, best known now as the Kennedy Estate--the place where JFK he composed his Inaugural Address. Known for their beauty, opulence, fantastic detail, as well as the stories of those individuals who have lived or played in them, the houses and buildings of Addison Mizner stand as monuments to grand living and romance made in stone and iron, stucco and tile.