Queen Mary Special Perfume "Nineteen Thirty-six

Throughout the 1950s Morris Lapidus, who had spent the first twenty years of his career as a successful designer of retail shops and other commercial spaces, was the most sought-after hotel architect in Miami Beach, a city that was experiencing unprecedented growth and change (fig. 90). For an ever-expanding audience of seasonal visitors and new residents, many of whom were Jews of Eastern European descent, Lapidus created a highly prized experience, and a gazetteer of images, that captured the …