"Too Much Is Never Enough: An Autobiography" 1996 LAPIDUS, Morris Brooks Brothers

"Too Much Is Never Enough: An Autobiography" 1996 LAPIDUS, Morris Brooks BrothersLAPIDUS, Morris [303] pp. Rizzoli 1996 9 3 4" x 8 1 8" American architect Morris Lapidus is best known as the designer of glamorous postwar resort hotels in Florida, such as the Fontainebleau (1954) and the Eden Roc (1955) in Miami Beach, and the Americana in Bal Harbour (1956). Yet in a remarkable sixty year career that began in 1926, he designed more than 500 retail stores, hotels, apartment complexes, and stage sets that captured the popular spirit

Illustrated by Lawrie

Ex-libris F

Original advert watercolour for Lanvin of Paris depicting a flower girl by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)

a freelance epithet

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Here is an inspired collection that provides hundreds of designs that will awe

'To John H Harris'

The architectural revelation is matched by the houses’ sensational settings

Sz: 3 1/2"L

7 3/4" x 5 1/2

designer biographies

Inscribed to James Truman