Title : MAURICE FATIO PALM BEACH ARCHITECT
Publisher : Acanthus
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
Dimensions : 9.25 x 1.25 x 12 inches
Condition: in Good Condition commensurate with age and use. Profusely illustrated in color and B&W.
Dust Jacket has surface wear, dings, scuffs, teeny tiny fraying on spine corner tip and edge wear (please refer to the close-up photos), also some light bumping to lower spine corner tips of boards which must have occurred during original shipping. Not obvious with the protective archival Mylar jacket.
The interior pages are clean, bright and crisp.
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Book overview:
The ultimate winter playground on a sun-drenched tropical island accessible only by the Florida East Coast Railway or ocean-going yacht, Palm Beach was created as an exclusive haven for the pursuit of pleasure. Developed mainly during the flamboyant 1920s, Palm Beach was different from the storied northern resorts, such as Newport, Bar Harbor or the Hamptons. It was exotic, extravagant, and ultra modern a place where bankers mixed freely with gamblers and bootleggers, plutocrats with Ziegfeld showgirls and society doyennes. The glamorous winter houses and exclusive clubs, designed by its early style-setting architects, provided a swanky backdrop for seasons of carefree recreation, parties, dinners, and dancing under the stars.
MAURICE FATIO, PALM BEACH ARCHITECT tells the story of the prominent society architect whose many elegant buildings remain as much-admired Florida icons. Born and trained in Switzerland, Fatio (1897-1943) came to the United States to study American building and design methods in the early 1920s, and never left. Shortly after opening his practice in New York City, he was called to Palm Beach to design Mediterranean-style castles, British Colonial mansions, and modernist villas on spectacular sites with water views as far as the eye could see. Fatio built over 200 houses in Florida. MAURICE FATIO examines in detail 26 finest examples of the architect s designs, built between 1927 and 1939, including Otto Kahn s southern Oheka, Harold Vanderbilt s Eastover, Harrison Williams Blythedunes, Consuelo Vanderbilt s Casa Alva, and E.F. Hutton s second Palm Beach house, Four Winds.
Illustrated with 300 period and new photographs and multiple floor plans drawn especially for this work, the book also includes a catalogue of Fatio s nearly 160 residential commissions in the back. Brief narratives highlight the history of each building and the clients who commissioned them.
Author’s Note:
The floor plans that appear in these pages were drawn specifically for this work by Darlington Martinez. They represent the original plans as drawn by the architects Treanor & Fatio and found in the firm's archive at the Historical Society of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach, Florida. Some plans may vary slightly from the houses as built, since some changes were made on site and are therefore not reflected in the original plans. Most of the on-site changes did not impact the flow of rooms within the house.
In other cases, houses were altered later, some by Fatio himself, and these changes can be seen in the more recent photographs. An exception was made for Casa Alva, where we reproduced the floor plans for the house with its additions. A few houses have had additions built by other architects (Villa Today, The Reef); while others have seen parts of the house torn down (Eastover, Folie Monvel); in almost all the houses, servants quarters, bedrooms, and bathrooms have been remodeled to reflect today's lifestyle.
The date assigned to each house in this book corresponds to the date written on its original floor plan.
Foreword ~ JEFFERY SMITH
Tribute - ALEXANDRA FATIO
Plans ~ DARLINGTON MARTINEZ
Foreword — Jeffery Smith
Tribute - Alexandra Fatio
Introduction
LIST OF HOMES:
BUENOS RECUERDOS
HENRY & MIRIAM N. BARKHAUSEN RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
VILLA BELLARIA
EMIL J. & MARGUERITE Z. STEHLI RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
CASA DELLA PORTA
WILLIAM J. & SUSAN P. MCANEENY RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
CHASE RESIDENCE
NIA SAWYER CHASE
Palm Beach
CASA ELEDA
MORTIMER L. & ADELE N, SCHIFF RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
PALMEIRAL
MARGARET DURANT COOPER RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
VILLA OHEKA
OTTO H. & ADDIE W. KAHN RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
FATIO RESIDENCE
MAURICE & ELEANOR CHASE FATIO
Palm Beach
EASTOVER
HAROLD STIRLING & GERTRUDE C. VANDERBILT
Manalapan
IL PALMETTO
JOSEPH E. & ELEANOR P. WIDENER RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
BLYTHEDUNES
HARRISON & MONA BUSH WILLIAMS RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
VILLA TODAY
CHARLES H. & AUDREY Q. CHADWICK RESIDENCE
Palm Beach
ALWORTH RESIDENCE
MARSHALL W. & MARGARET ALWORTH
Miami Beach
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