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Article: Worth Avenue & West Palm Beach.(THE SCENE)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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"Follow the money." What was good advice for Woodward and Bernstein is equally useful guidance for the antiques collector. When Henry Morrison Flagler established Palm Beach as a winter haven for Gilded Age society, important furnishings and art were sure to follow. And so they did.
February sees the annual Palm Beach antique shows, and those who attend the exhibitions at the area's convention center should visit local galleries as well. Two areas merit special attention. The first is Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, the city's luxury shopping strip. Laid out in the 1920s by the architect Addison Mizner, it is still an enclave of opulence, with its arcaded blocks and ...