The Wolfsonian-Florida International University
Design museum inside a former storage warehouse, holding decorative arts and propaganda spanning eighteen eighty-five to nineteen forty-five.
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This guide to The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach follows Mitchell Wolfson Junior, a collector who began pocketing hotel keys as a boy and bought his first real piece, a copy of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, at twelve. It traces how his hoard of posters, furniture and propaganda outgrew rented space inside a 1927 storage warehouse built to keep wealthy families' furniture safe through Florida summers, long before air conditioning. Listen for the hidden freight elevator, one of the first installed in Miami Beach.
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