Boca Rococo: How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast
- List Price: $35.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers
- Publish date: 01/01/2003
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 America's most elegant resort -- and fed his dream of developing a "Venice-on-the-Ocean" in nearby Boca Raton. Mizner's plans ended with the collapse of Florida's 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Drawing on a huge cache of untapped materials -- including measured plans and an unpublished autobiography -- Seebohm restores Mizner to the pantheon of great architects and flamboyant Americans.
