Deborah Desilets

LINCOLN ROAD A PLACE IN THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC

LINCOLN ROAD A PLACE IN THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC PLACES By Deborah DeSilets In 2010, a group of students and the local community celebrated…

THE EVOLUTION OF SOUND: Bill Jordan’s Bar of Music 1937-1969

THE EVOLUTION OF SOUND: Bill Jordan’s Bar of Music 1937-1969 By Deborah Desilets Having designed from 1999-2009 over 100,000 square feet of night clubs in…

MAGICAL MEMORIES: The Clean Machine, The Marlin and Barbara Hulanicki

MAGICAL MEMORIES: The Clean Machine, The Marlin and Barbara Hulanicki on Miami Beach By Deborah DeSilets Yes, the Marlin Hotel on Miami Beach at 12th…

The Fontainebleau: A Marriage of Love for ART Basel by

By Deborah DeSilets In Tiffany’s Tik Tok video The Fontainebleau shines like a gem as @Beyonce and #JAYZ light up the exterior while the performance…

PRESSING STYLE: Why style matters in Architecture?

By Deborah DeSilets On June 30, 1997, Morris Lapidus Called me. He had just received A follow-up letter from Kevin Alter about the Fall Lecture…

Beyond the Glass Bead Game

by Deborah Desilets For ten years the Anton Refregier Mosaics of the Explorers of the Americas have been in storage. As the one who arranged…

Sandestin: A City by the Sea mingle Sand and Destiny

By Deborah DeSilets Home to white quartz sand beaches and waving emerald shorelines, this location in Northwest Florida is referred to as the “Emerald Coast”;…

Africatown: A STORY OF RECLAIMED IDENTITY

By Deborah DeSilets In 1860 110 people from Dahomey West Africa stealthily under the cover of dark night, were steered into Mobile Bay near 12…

To My Valentine

To My Valentine By Deborah DeSilets How many of us can say we have hand drawn a card for our loved ones for Valentine’s Day?…

After my Heart

By Deborah DeSilets Twenty years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami held a memorial service for the great architect of Miami…

DESPERATELY SEEKING ATHENA: And the White Horse of 1913

By Deborah Desilets It normally is a difficult time in our household to vote; yet it feels even more so this year as we can…

Time Reveals

By Deborah DeSilets In Tallahassee, 5 miles down from the capitol steps, down on the Perry Highway near the old Nichol’s store where the Wal-Mart…

I ask, would you like a mask?

By Deborah DeSilets When you kiss, hug, breathe, or snore you release vapor droplets into the air. Doctors warn that the SARS Coronavirus 2 lives…

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HINDSIGHT IS 2020

HINDSIGHT IS 2020 By Deborah DeSilets Growing up in Florida, my ears as a child were filled with the lament of my elders that, “Hindsight is…

The High Lonesome Sound of U.S. Highway 23

By Deborah Desilets This past Holiday season found me traveling north to be with family. This time the Florida to Michigan trek was to need…

2019 HURRICANE REVITALIZATION BASH

2019 HURRICANE REVITALIZATION BASH By Deborah DeSilets The Florida Scallop Music and Arts Festival have been pushed to the metal in the past two hurricane…

GRAMLING’S, INC.: TALLAHASSEAN’S COME OUT TO SAY FAREWELL

GRAMLING’S, INC.: TALLAHASSEAN’S COME OUT TO SAY FAREWELL By Deborah DeSilets The closing party was last weekend, and from the looks of it Gramling’s, Inc.…

Come in Houston: The Mosaics have Landed!

Come in Houston: The Mosaics have Landed! By Deborah DeSilets In a city, not to far away, in another building for a by-gone era, there…

Worm Grunting: It’s a Dirty Job

Whether you call it worm charming, worm grunting, worm fiddling or by any other local name the results are the same: attracting earthworms from the…

Tie a Yellow, White, and Red Ribbon on the Old

By Deborah DeSilets On February 22, 2019 an intimate group of history aficionados convened in the hallowed hall of the Martin House, in Tallahassee to…