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Article: Mizner's Florida; American resort architecture.
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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 one 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 regpose enlivened with flair.
For this style, Mizner needed a great supply ...