The book will be the most comprehensive book of Lapidus's 50-plus-year career. It will be divided into several key chapters based on building types: 1) Hotels and resorts--for which he is best known--including the Fountainbleau and Edon Roc in Miami, The Americana hotels in New York, San Juan, and Miami, and many others. 2) Retail spaces: Lapidus started his career design shops in New York, where he pioneered the all-glass display window and later the "flow" of the open floor plan in the retail space, unprecedented at the time. 3) Houses and Housing: less well known are Lapidus's houses and housing, which range in location from New York to Miami, to which he brought the same level of extravagance as he did to his more renowned hotel work.
