Editing Addison Mizner (section)

===Mizner Industries===
To make materials for the Everglades Club, he and [[Paris Singer]] purchased a small facility and began the manufacture of roof and floor tiles, with a sideline production of ironwork and furniture. The factory also made pottery; Mizner viewed pottery as something that "could be effectively used to integrate an indoor and outdoor color scheme."<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|53}} The factory was called "Las Manos" ("The Hands"), referring to the way products were made there: "con las manos", with our hands, by hand.

After the Club was completed in 1919, Singer sold Mizner his interest in the factory,<ref>{{citation
|pages=55–62, at p. 59
|first1=Alex
|last1=Waugh
|first2=Robert V.
|last2=Doyle
|contribution=Alex in Miznerland
|title=The Many Mizners. California Clan Extraordinary
|year=1978
|publisher=[[Oakland Museum]]
|editor=J. Camille Showalter}}</ref><ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|52}} which prospered. In [[West Palm Beach, Florida|West Palm Beach]], "just east of the railroad,"<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|52}} by 1925 Mizner Industries Incorporated was making, according to its catalog, "pottery, roof and floor tile, [[antique furniture|period furniture]], [[wicker]], upholstering, repairing, antique [[millwork (building material)|millwork]] and hardware, bronze [[sash window|sash]],<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|56}} [[wrought iron]], [[stained glass windows|stained]] and [[came glasswork|leaded]] glass windows, reconstructed and ornamental stone, and imitation marble."<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|52–53}}<ref name=Federal/>{{rp|230}}<ref name=Boomtime />{{rp|48}} It was one of the largest manufacturing companies in Palm Beach County.<ref name=built >{{cite web
|title=Mizner's Dream:The Built and the Unbuilt
|access-date=January 2, 2018
|url=http://www.bocahistory.org/mizners-dream/default.asp
|publisher=Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum
|archive-date=January 3, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103011728/http://www.bocahistory.org/mizners-dream/default.asp
|url-status=live
}}</ref> Mizner lacked the talent for making conventional plans and specifications. Everything was done off-the-cuff. Plans for one house were drawn in the sand on the beach. He was a pioneer in developing artificial or cast stone, a combination of [[coquina]] shell, [[lime (material)|lime]], and a cement mixture. He also used "woodite", a composite material with a wood component, which could be poured and molded.<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|59}} As a result, Mizner Industries sold "precast plastering", highly ornate plaster coffered ceilings and mouldings,<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|54}} and with woodite, besides antique-style doors, the paneling of a complete room, all at a relatively low cost.<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|58}} "One of the major difficulties in identifying Mizner buildings is the presence of Mizner Industries stonework on non-Mizner buildings";<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|54}} a number of buildings he did not build are frequently misattributed to him.<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|50 n. 19}}

Mizner Industries, copying imported antiques or photographs, manufactured beds, tables, [[taboret]]s, chests, dressing tables, wardrobes, "all pieces of furniture imaginable." There were two qualities: "a superior, handcrafted line ... extremely difficult to distinguish from authentic Spanish antiques," and another "good, sturdy line with little or no hand attention."<ref name=Orr1977 />{{rp|58}}