whose Mediterranean Revival
and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida
, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers. In the 1920s Mizner was the best-known and most-discussed living American architect. Mizner was the visionary behind development of Boca Raton, Florida
.
Born in Benicia
, California
, he traveled as a child around the world with his father, Lansing Bond Mizner, a lawyer and the U. S.
minister to Guatemala
, who was recalled to the United States in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison
after the Barrundia Affair.
Little is known about Addison Mizner's sketches and artwork prior to his architectural career, but his subsequent work shows him to be a fine draftsman
and an artist
who painted beautiful watercolors.
Although he lacked formal university training, Mizner served a 3 year apprenticeship
in the office of San Francisco architect, Willis Jefferson Polk
, eventually becoming a partner.
Many are called, but few get up.
The wages of gin is breath.
Be held truthful that your lies may count.
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
People who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds.
quoted by Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners, 1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York
...Louis Fourteenth Street furniture...
...teeth set out by a landscape gardener...
Two ideas in his head at once would constitute an unlawful assembly.
A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
He has no manners—he just has customs.