Part 1 of the accompanying interiors to 'Vizcaya', the James Deering estate designed by F. Burrall Hoffman Jr. between 1914 and 1923 in Miami, Florida, with landscaping by Diego Suarez. Click HERE for more on 'Vizcaya'.
Photos from Architectural Review, 1917.
Vizcaya is magical! Undoubtedly it is my favorite of all the American house museums.
ReplyDeleteI say it once again: When Geniuses collide...with an unlimited budget. These are so good it hurts. In a good way.
ReplyDeleteViscaya along with San Simeon are probably the 2 best examples of the masterful integration and display of architectural artifacts and antiques and period design in the US. Outstanding home, site, gardens and that fantastic stone breakwater.
ReplyDeleteActually, although it is something else entirely, Henry Davis Sleeper's American Colonial fantasy, Beauport, deserves a place in that Pantheon of best example of materful intergration and desplay etc.
ReplyDeleteBut as a work of architecture and landscape, Vizcaya is the clear front running.
*front runner*
ReplyDeleteFor those interested, here is a landscape impact report about Vizcaya--very critical of the current garden maintenance (as am I), and with lots of history of the development of the gardens, views of elements still visible in the hospital and high school grounds, and great historic views of the grounds, even if not interested in reading it.
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