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Jan 27, 2008 · Addison Mizner was doubly courageous. He was an architect, of sorts, who dreamed of developing the perfect city, Boca Raton. And yes, he wound up bankrupt. When he faintly smiled for a photograph ...
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Addison Mizner was born in Benicia, California, the seventh of eight children. As a young man, he lived in Central America and Spain which would shape his architectural vocabulary years later. He didn't follow the typical path towards becoming an architect. After apprenticing with San Francisco architect Willis Polk, he went on to prospect for ...
Sep 15, 2014 · Addison Mizner home in Boca Raton's Old Floresta neighborhood belonging to Ewald and Suzanne Wiberg. Staff photo/Mark Randall View of the colonnades at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.
Jan 17, 2013 · A new Introduction by Mizner scholar Donald W. Curl offers an additional appreciation of the architect and his innovative and imaginative conceptions, which continue to win new admirers among connoisseurs of classic design.Reproduced from a rare edition much sought after by collectors, this inexpensive volume will be welcomed by architects ...
Iconic architect Addison Mizner’s unfiltered first-person account of Palm Beach’s formative years from 1918 until 1924, entitled Addison Mizner: A Palm Beach Memo ir, is an upcoming publication by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. Focused on the period when Mizner and sewing-machine heir Paris Singer were instrumental in shaping ...
Dec 7, 2023 · The Historical Society of Palm Beach County announced the released its newest publication, “Addison Mizner: A Palm Beach Memoir” (Pineapple Press). It contains the iconic architect’s remembrances in a second volume, which he was working on before his death in 1933. Historian and author Augustus Mayhew III edited Mizner’s original typed manuscript for publication. An introduction ...
