The book explores Vizcaya, a remarkable Gilded Age estate that exemplifies the era's opulence through its grand architecture and lush gardens. Utilizing illustrations and historic photographs, the authors provide a detailed narrative that captures the significance of this estate as a symbol of wealth and power during its time. The documentation highlights both the house and its landscape, offering readers a glimpse into the luxurious lifestyle of the period.
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of France: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, vineyards, and parks.
Over the past 50 years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of life and the environment in Italy: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, art, architecture, people, villas, and gardens—civic and domestic, humble to grand, things of interested to his designer’s eye.