The is the Collectors Limited Edition of just 400 books. Each copy has an original hand made cover with a section of palm frond embedded in gold cloth bound chipboard. It also includes a unique page handmade by internationally renowned artist Michele Oka Doner with palm material embedded in the page. Miami Beach, Blueprint of an Eden is the story of an extraordinary time and place. It is the concurrent stories of two families placed by destiny in a position to tell them well: the Wolfsons and the Okas. The authors? fathers were each mayors of Miami Beach, one in the 40's and one in the 50's and early 60?s. Their mothers were prominent first ladies. Their exhaustive family archives provide a rich cultural, architectural, political, social, botanical, stylistic, gastronomic, geological and poetic history of Miami Beach from the 1920's to the 1960's...a place that time would render mythic. Sumptuously illustrated with over 500 vintage photographs.

Miami Beach: Blueprint Of An Eden. Lives Seen through the Prism of Family and Place

Gordon, Alastair

Doner, Michele Oka

Wolfson, Mitchell

Humor & Entertainment

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<p>Miami Beach, Blueprint of an Eden is the story of an extraordinary time and place. It is the concurrent stories of two families placed by destiny in a position to tell them well: the Wolfsons and the Okas. The authors fathers were each mayors of Miami Beach, one in the 40s and one in the 50s and early 60s. Their mothers were prominent first ladies. Their exhaustive family archives provide a rich cultural, architectural, political, social, botanical, stylistic, gastronomic, geological and poetic history of an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time. The soul of the book is a dia logue between the authors via letters and narrati ve text. The heart of the book is its sumptuous photographs, architectural blueprints, memorabilia, sheet music (that can be played on a piano), native poetry, maps, drawings, and recipes - everything that gave rise to the contemporary phenomena that is Miami Beach.</p>

Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden: Lives Seen Through the Prism of Family and Place

History

Americas

Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.

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