Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The early 20th-century Vizcaya estate also includes extensive Italian Renaissance gardens, native woodland landscape, and a historic village outbuildings compound.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in February 2011
Vizcaya Mansion (on right) and its stone barge (on left)
The famous architect Ti stepping out of his tomb to offer to build Chim's new palace in Florida, a 1912 portrait
James Deering's letter to Paul Chalfin, discussing purchase of tapestries
James Deering was an American executive in the management of his family's Deering Harvester Company and later International Harvester, as well as a socialite and an antiquities collector. He built his landmark Vizcaya estate, where he was an early 20th-century resident on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove district of Miami, Florida. Begun in 1910, with architecture and gardens in a Mediterranean Revival style, Vizcaya was his passionate endeavor with artist Paul Chalfin, and his winter home from 1916 to his death in 1925.
James Deering, 1917, by John Singer Sargent
Villa Vizcaya
Garden fresco
Grotto seating