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3 décembre 2007

A Show on Modernism, That Embattled Survivor

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Developers in the Miami area used Modernist styles to attract tourists and home buyers in the mid-20th century. “The hotels were swank, escapist, over-the-top fantasies, and other building types had clean Bauhaus-inspired lines or tropical features like courtyards and louvered mahogany doors,” said Ruth Grim, acting chief curator at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, where “Promises of Paradise: Staging Midcentury Miami” opens onWednesday. It includes photos, furniture and accessories like a 1947 lamp, left, by George Farkas.

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This brochure for the 1956 Americana hotel in Bal Harbour is also included. Ms. Grim said she hoped the show would draw attention to the region’s endangered Modernist buildings: on Nov. 18, the Americana was felled to make way for condos. Through April 13; (305) 673-7530 or bassmuseum.org. EVE M. KAHN www.nytimes.com

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