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Polly Jessup was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessup moved to Hobe Sound from New York with her husband John Jessup in the 1920s. Although she never received a formal training in interior design, her eye for color, form, and style made her a nationally renowned interior designer whose designs were integral to the gracious lifestyle […]

Addison Mizner was born in Benicia, California, the seventh of eight children. As a young man, he lived in Central America and Spain which would shape his architectural vocabulary years later. He didn’t follow the typical path towards becoming an architect. After apprenticing with San Francisco architect Willis Polk, he went on to prospect for […]

John Volk was born in Graz, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of nine with his family. Volk studied architecture at Columbia University and apprenticed with H.P. Knowles, a Masonic architect in New York. In 1925 he relocated to Florida during the real estate boom, and he opened his own practice […]

Marion Sims Wyeth (1889–1982) was born in New York City and studied at Princeton University and the École des Beaux Arts. In 1919, he founded his architectural firm in Palm Beach with partner Frederic Rhinelander King. Wyeth was among a group of architects considered the “Big Five,” along with John Volk, Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, […]