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Article: Addison Mizner, architect to the affluent; a sketchbook raisonne of his work.
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- July 1, 1985
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For the whole history of architecture, we can count on our fingers the designers who originated a style. Addison Cairns Mizner (1872-1933) was on of them, concocting for wealthy winter residents of Palm Beach a distinctive blend of Spanish architecture with decorative elements borrowed from Mission, Venetian Gothic and Italian Renaissance styles, all of it admirably suited to the Florida climate and to his clients fantasies. It is a style still actively imitated today in Florida and California, but not often with Mizner's genuine talent. His buildings at their best achieve a magnificent repose enlivened with flair.
For this style, Mizner needed a great supply of ...
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