In the tradition of Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, John Volk, and Howard Major–the early architects of Palm Beach’s great estates and public buildings of the Gilded Age–the architecture of Jeffery W. Smith stands resplendent as a testament to the refined elegance of another time, and is as well a promise of the grandeur that the future holds. Hailed by Town & Country as “the most adept young historicist working in Palm Beach today,” preeminent Palm Beach architect Jeffery Smith is a paragon of exquisite design sense, as is clearly evident in the houses featured here. Smith’s work–a continuation of the classical Mediterranean style characteristic of the town that has come to be known as the “American Riviera”–is showcased in Palm Beach Splendor in seventeen of his most recent projects, in magnificent full-color photographs featuring interiors by such well-known designers as Peter Marino and David Easton.
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Joyce Costomiris Wilson has served on historical society boards in Hawaii and Florida, including Palm Beach County, Delray Beach, and Boca Raton. The former style editor for Boca Raton magazine, Wilson and her husband now reside in WaterColor, Florida.
Kim Sargent’s photography has been featured in such notable publications as Architectural Digest, Art & Antiques, Interior Design, Florida Design, Metropolitan Home, Florida Architecture, Veranda, and The New York Times Magazine. Sargent and his wife Joan live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Beth Dunlop is the author of numerous books, including Arquitectonica. She is a regular
contributor to House & Garden magazine, as well as many other publications. She lives in Miami Beach and is the architecture critic of The Miami Herald.
Kim Sargent’s photography has been featured in such notable publications as Architectural Digest, Art & Antiques, Interior Design, Florida Design, Metropolitan Home, Florida Architecture, Veranda, and The New York Times Magazine. Sargent and his wife Joan live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Beth Dunlop is the author of numerous books, including Arquitectonica. She is a regular
contributor to House & Garden magazine, as well as many other publications. She lives in Miami Beach and is the architecture critic of The Miami Herald.
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Splendor Indeed,
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Wow, what a book! These estates are just incredible, the images are vivid and first rate and the text is very interesting and easy to navigate. Jeffrey Smith really knows how to design grand homes, his houses though mammoth, really fit Palm Beach, I mean one expects grand mansions in this Vallhalla of the truly rich, but Jeffrey Smith's homes are tastful, they are huge, but they fit their environment and are respectful to the neighborhoods in which they reside. Very nice book on a most deserving subject.
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Pure Glamour,
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This is one of the few books that could be judge by its cover and title. The pictures are excellent and the properties selected are some of the best mansions in FL. I enjoy the many details that are exposed with blueprints and sketches next to their actual pictures. The books include seven of my favorite's houses in FL, an apartment in NYC and other selected properties. If you are looking for a book full of splendor this is the one.
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Don't Hate Them Because They Are Rich!,
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They have this book in the gift-store at the Flager Museum in Palm Beach. So I have perused it a few times, because my husband, after we have seen whatever exhibition convinced us to pay the Flagler Museum's costly entrance fee, always wants to go out near the water in back. So I kill time in the gift-shop, and actually this book has held my attention several times. The houses are remakable by this architect for a very coherent and convincing updating of the rather scattered Mizner aesthetic. It as if Smith distilled the best classy antiqueness from an already all-over-the-place anchronism of the Mizner aesthetic. It is really delightful. But these grand houses on the water would be lost on me, pretty as they are, because being out in the sun next to the water is so unappealing for me. City boy that I am, I can't wait to get inside and close the blinds! Though how many very unlikely former Floridians like myself (and believe me strangely there are a lot of them living in Florida, regularly cursing beaches) can in fact say that they performed a Mozart Piano Concerto with youth - orchestra outside in the blinding sunshine by the water on the grand terrace of Vizcaya, the inspiration for everything historical in South Florida? Somehow the Floridian aesthetic makes all anachronism fungible.
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