VIZCAYA: An American Villa and Its Makers
VIZCAYA: An American Villa and Its Makers
A Book Signing and an Evening Lecture by Witold Rybczynski
This event is graciously sponsored by Aedicule, Fine Framemaking and Tucker & Marks, Inc.. Generously hosted by Ed Hardy San Francisco.
DATE: September 19, Friday
TIME: 6:00pm - Reception, 6:30pm - Lecture & Book signing
LOCATION: Ed Hardy San Francisco, 188 Henry Adams
LIMITED SEATING: $25 for ICA&CA members, $35 for general public
RSVP: Please rsvp by Sept. 17 to Jeanne Chan at 415.445.6700, or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. Vizcaya was completed in 1916 as the winter retreat of Chicago industrialist James Deering. The cosmopolitan bachelor, whose chose Miami for its warm climate, enlisted the guidance of artist Paul Chalfin, with whom he traveled throughout Italy to survey houses and gardens. With the assistance of architect F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr., and garden designer Diego Suarez, the 180-acre site on Biscayne Bay was transformed into a grand estate, complete with lagoons, canals, citrus groves, a farm village, a yatch harbor, and a 40-room Baroque mansion.
Witold Rybczynski is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of many books, including the award-winning biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, A Clearing in the Distance, and the best-selling Home: A Short History of an Idea. He has also written more than 200 articles and papers on housing, architecture, and technology in which have earned considerable readership and respect. In 2007, Rybczynski is the recipient of Vincent Scully Prize, an award to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design.
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