How modern architecture came to Miami Beach

Shoshana ResnikoffFurniture & Decorative Arts

In 1933 Florida Governor David Sholtz wrote that the states various exhibits at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition were “but the ‘Show Rooms of the state,'” adding, we further invite you to visit the ‘Play Ground of the Nation.'” The Florida Tropical House, constructed for the Home and Industrial Arts Group section of the exposition and built alongside ten other homes on the shores of Lake Michigan, was one such showroom.

Magazine July/August 2023

Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2023 Editor’s Letter Gregory Cerio Field NotesBlind Spots Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingA self-taught artist in the internment camps; the sculpture of William Edmondson at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation ; women of the Hudson River school at the Thomas Cole House; Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus; and this …