Boca Rococo: How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast

When Addison Mizner built his opulent, glamorous mansions along the coast of southern Florida in the 1920s, he perfectly expressed America's growing power & confidence. The lyrical, Mediterranean aesthetic of Mizner's buildings that has come to define Palm Beach & Boca Raton characterizes one of the most extravagant periods in Amer. history, when affluence & celebrity came together in a triumph of excess. He proved to be one of the country's greatest domestic architects of the 20th century. Seebohm reconstructs Mizner's pursuit of immortality through the palaces & villas he constructed & shows how the splendor & elegance of those buildings have come down to us as a dazzling record of a wild & wonderful period in Amer. history. Illustrated.