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Download or read book Vizcaya written by Witold Rybczynski and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya, the authors use illustrations, historic photographs, and narrative to document this extraordinary house and landscape.

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