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| The interior of the entrance loggia, showing the arched openings to the patio and, at the rear, the door into the drawing room. |
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| The drawing room is Gothic in feeling and much of the furniture is of the same period, with some Early Renaissance bits. The wholly delightful color scheme includes a deep ochre ceiling with beams polychromed in dull reds, black, and white, furniture upholstered in rich tones of green, red, and yellow velvet, the whole subdued by the soft light coming through the windows of delicately shaded pink, yellow, and green glass. |
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| A more comprehensive view of the drawing room. The black floor tiles here surround a central oaken floor which is amply large for dancing. |
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| Detail of the richly ornamented doorway in the drawing room which leads into the passage to the dining room. The doors are Gothic—genuine antiques—and the frame of old Gothic and Moorish tiles surmounted by a bishop of the same period accords well with them. |
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| The unusual dining room paneling was taken from what were once the private apartments of Ferdinand and Isabella in a palace in Salamanca, and is late Gothic with perhaps a touch of Early Renaissance. It is of bleached oak which has almost a gray feeling(having been whitewashed) and the tile is of soft neutral colors and varying shades of salmon, the ceiling being a smoky brown. |
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| The patio is raised one story from the street, upon which one can look down from the balcony railing that runs along the front of the building. |
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| The loggia which forms the top of the house has windows on all four sides which command a view of the ocean to the east, of Lake Worth to the south, of a dense forest of pines and palms to the north. The west windows overlook the Everglades Club and the little cove with its houses built out into the water. |
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