Described in 1902 by The New York Herald as “more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world,” Henry Morrison Flagler’s Whitehall endures more than a century later as an icon of Palm Beach. Evocative of the opulent settings immortalized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Whitehall was commissioned in 1902 as a wedding gift to Flagler’s third wife, Mary Lily Kenan. Designed by the École des Beaux-Arts–trained architects John Carrère and Thomas Hastings, the mansion encompasses over 100,000 square feet and contains more than seventy-five rooms. Conceived as the Flaglers’ Gilded Age winter retreat, Whitehall also played a formative role in establishing what would become Palm Beach’s famed “season.”
Like Gatsby’s “factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy”, this Apollonian inspired structure, “a colossal affair by any standard”, evokes French architecture, its opulence and grandeur. Surrounded by a highly decorated wrought iron fence and grand entry doors, Whitehall’s interior walls are adorned with gilding and elaborate hand painted ceilings referencing Apollo and the Muses of literature and the arts.
“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.”
Inspired by a quote from Grace Coddington, these images focus on seeing the ordinary in unordinary, unexpected, extraordinary ways. They seek beauty and meaning in overlooked details, reminding us that inspiration exists everywhere. Look up, look through, shift perspectives. While we all inhabit this one earth, what remains uniquely our own is the way we see it.
Using a Hasselblad camera, my work focuses on the belief that great art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
Traditional printing at its finest on archival C-metallic photographic paper.
11 × 14”
Edition of 10
Described in 1902 by The New York Herald as “more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world,” Henry Morrison Flagler’s Whitehall endures more than a century later as an icon of Palm Beach. Evocative of the opulent settings immortalized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Whitehall was commissioned in 1902 as a wedding gift to Flagler’s third wife, Mary Lily Kenan. Designed by the École des Beaux-Arts–trained architects John Carrère and Thomas Hastings, the mansion encompasses over 100,000 square feet and contains more than seventy-five rooms. Conceived as the Flaglers’ Gilded Age winter retreat, Whitehall also played a formative role in establishing what would become Palm Beach’s famed “season.”
Like Gatsby’s “factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy”, this Apollonian inspired structure, “a colossal affair by any standard”, evokes French architecture, its opulence and grandeur. Surrounded by a highly decorated wrought iron fence and grand entry doors, Whitehall’s interior walls are adorned with gilding and elaborate hand painted ceilings referencing Apollo and the Muses of literature and the arts.
“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.”
Inspired by a quote from Grace Coddington, these images focus on seeing the ordinary in unordinary, unexpected, extraordinary ways. They seek beauty and meaning in overlooked details, reminding us that inspiration exists everywhere. Look up, look through, shift perspectives. While we all inhabit this one earth, what remains uniquely our own is the way we see it.
Using a Hasselblad camera, my work focuses on the belief that great art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
Traditional printing at its finest on archival C-metallic photographic paper.
11 × 14”
Edition of 10
