{"product_id":"boca-rococo-how-addison-mizner-invented-floridas-gold-coast-0609605151","title":"Boca Rococo: How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0609605151\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Seebohm, Caroline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rollicking tale of the artist, adventurer, and visionary whose innovative architecture transformed Palm Beach and whose dramatic rise and fall mirrors the larger-than-life excesses of the 1920s.Addison Mizners Mediterranean-style mansions-with their stucco walls, tiled roofs, and Moorish accents-are much-admired Florida icons. In Boca Rococo, renowned author and biographer Caroline Seebohm introduces the flamboyant genius behind these pastel palaces.Mizner was a leading San Francisco society figure in the 1890s, joined the Alaska Gold Rush, traveled to China, and made his way to an exploding turn-of-the-century New York. No formal training but huge natural talent established him as architect of the rich and famous. The getaways he designed made Palm Beach Americas most elegant resort-and fed his dream of developing a Venice-on-the-Ocean in nearby Boca Raton. Mizners plans ended with the collapse of Floridas real estate boom. He died in 1933, broken and bankrupt.Drawing on a huge cache of untapped materials-including measured plans and an unpublished autobiography-Seebohm restores Mizner to the pantheon of great architects and flamboyant Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51895087464736,"sku":"NEW0609605151","price":70.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91G0oXnzZLL.jpg?v=1782030775","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/boca-rococo-how-addison-mizner-invented-floridas-gold-coast-0609605151","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}