Talks at Vizcaya: Edith Wharton and the Villas of Rome

Name: Talks at Vizcaya: Edith Wharton and the Villas of Rome
Start: 2025-02-19T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-19T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 3251 South Miami Avenue,Miami,33129,US

Schedule

Wed Feb 19 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3251 South Miami Avenue,Miami,33129,US | Miami, FL

Join us for a talk on Edith Wharton's book about Italian villas and gardens, and how her own houses and novels influenced others.
Edith Wharton’s (1862-1937) career as a leading American fiction writer is well-known. But her unusual ability both to write and to observe puts her at the forefront of Italian garden critics as well; her book Italian Villas and their Gardens, first published in 1904, remains a scholarly resource on the subject to this day. Join us for an illustrated talk including slides of eight Roman villas described by Wharton in her influential book, and hear about the influence of the villas on Wharton’s own houses and her novels.
TICKETS | $5; FREE for students and Vizcaya Members
Vizcaya Members reserve tickets here .
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with complimentary wine | Talk starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Featured speaker: CeCe Haydock
CeCe Haydock is a licensed New York landscape architect WBE and has practiced in the public as well as the private sector. She is a graduate of Princeton University (BA English), and received her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry. A former New York City Parks Department site engineer, she was then employed by the firm, Innocenti and Webel in Locust Valley, NY, and later founded her own practice, Constance T. Haydock, Landscape Architect, P.C. CeCe is SITES, LEED & WEDG accredited, and focuses on sustainability and “green” building. A member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), she is also a member of the NYS Council of Landscape Architects and an officer of the ASLA national leadership sustainable group. She is a member of the Olmsted Council at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, NY, the International Council of The Preservation Society of Newport County and a visiting lecturer at the New York Botanical Garden.