“It is truly a wonderful vision, or grand folly, and there is nothing quite like it anywhere in the world,” Olin wrote of the barge in “Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers.” Over the ...

Located in the Coconut Grove district, the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens were originally built as a winter villa for businessman James Deering in the early 1900s. Today, it serves as a museum ...

The 1916 piano was documented in archival photographs and in an inventory of the estate made after the death of Vizcaya’s patron James Deering. But the instrument was removed from the villa ...