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

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.