These new summer mansions mastered the seamless flow from indoor entertaining to wide porches, sunrooms, and verandas that maximized sea breezes and summer views. Olmsted, of Central Park fame, perfected gardens and grounds that connected elegantly to interiors.
In early 20th-century Florida, Addison Mizner’s Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival estates across Palm Beach and Boca Raton celebrated outdoor living with signature loggias and expansive courtyards through large French doors. Around the same time, Frank Lloyd Wright introduced the Midwest and California to his open-plan Prairie Style, pioneering a modern approach. And that was all before the Modernists arrived. Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, and the Eames effortlessly blurred the lines between inside and outside.
