Synopses & Reviews
For 400 years people have been entranced by Florida's natural beauty and hospitable climate. Old Florida celebrates the architectural landmarks of Florida's colorful past. An adventure-some group of pioneers were drawn to the uncharted and exotic landscape of late nineteenth-century Florida, creating buildings of extraordinary imagination and beauty. Since then, Florida has experienced a century of remarkable new architecture, from the ornate Italian villa Vizcaya to the Spanish Mediterranean homes of Coral Gables to the Art Deco hotels of South Beach to Frank Lloyd Wright's geometric structures for Florida Southern College. This book is the first to capture the splendor of Florida architecture, with entirely original color photography commissioned specially for the book. Residents and tourists alike will appreciate both the renowned sites and private glimpses of such largely unseen attractions as the orange-grove plantation cottage where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling and Thomas Edison's summer home, which had the first concrete swimming pool.
About the Author
Steve Gross and
Sue Daley are the authors of
At Home with the Past, Old Houses, Santa Fe: Houses and Gardens, and
Catskills Country Style. They live in New York.