The great American house as we know it today has deep roots. It is part Freuch chateau, part Palladian villa, part English country house, hut it is also uniquely American. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in Palm Beach--a resorl Iown buih largely in the 1920s but one that in many ways capped the American Cilded Age at its very end, and then never eease(I to celebrate its archi leclure. The architeelural legacies of the Gihled Ago.indeed, live on today, nowhere more evident than in the architecture of the prolific and dediealed Jeffery Smith.

Palm Beach is a name that calls forth many images.The stately palms that line Roval Pahn Wav like sen Worth Avenue, bejeweled with elegant shops. Tall and man icured hedges broken by wrought-iron gates through which one might glimpse magnificent estales. And, of course, the while-sand beaches and turquoise waters of the Allantie.Palm Beach is always in vogue. Its ultimate splendor, how ever, is revealed most exuberantly through its stunning architecture. The early architects--Addison MiznerMauriee Fatio, John Volk, Howard Major, and others--who designed the town's great estates and public buildings, like rare shells collected and cherished, chronicle its past histo ry. Its current history is being written by architect JefferySmilh. It began with his 1993 commission in design La Follia, a 43,000-square-foot oceanfront villa. La Follia is the cornerstone, marking the birth of a new era in the history of Pahn Beach, a groundbreaking thai signaled an architectur al Renaissance.

Foreword by Beth Dunlop

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La Follia Palm Beach, 1996

Villa Grazia Palm Beach, 1997

Monterey Style Palm Bench, 1997

Villa Venezia Palm Beach, 1998

Lakefront Bernmda Style Palm Bench, 1998

Lakefront Mediterranean Palm Beach, 1999

Oceanfront Mediterranean Palm Beach, 1999

Joya Del Mar Palm Beach, 1999

Penthouse on Madison New York. 2000

Pietra Mar Naples, 2000

Old Trees Southampton, 2001

Oceanfront Bernmda Style Palm Beach, 2001

La Reverie Palm Beach, 2002

Indian Creek Miami, 2003

Shingle Style Palm Beach, 2003

Oceanfront Italian Renaissance Palm Be.oh, 2004

Worth Avenue

Chanel Palm Beock, 1999

 Graft Jewelers Palm Beach, 2003

Tiffany & Co. Palm Beach, 1992

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