Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers

by Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin

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.

In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture critic and writer and an award-winning landscape architect explore the little-known story of Vizcaya, an extraordinary national treasure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239512
• ISBN13: 9780812239515
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.3"