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Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers

Contributor(s): Rybczynski, Witold (Author), Olin, Laurie (Author), Brooke, Steven (Photographer)

ISBN: 9780812239515

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Pub Date: January 4, 2007

Dewey: 712.60975938

LCCN: 2006041847

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 10.30" L x 8.40" W ( 2.45 lbs) 296 pages

Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

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Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya, the authors use illustrations, historic photographs, and narrative to document this extraordinary house and landscape.

Review Quotes: "Vizcaya, long thought of as a wealthy man's folly, has finally gotten the critical consideration it has so richly deserved in this eminently readable book."-- "Architecture in Print"

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