Java Head

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Java Head is a monument to the Bakers' love of travel, modernism and the exotic in the sophisticated Art Deco style.

The home's flamboyant yellow color and bubbling fountains daringly reflected the exotic spirit of the tropics.

In the 1930s, Miami exalted in a new, exciting design movement from Paris called Art Deco. Two adventurers, Charles and Pauline Baker, built a home that reflected their love of travel, modernism, and the exotic in the sophisticated Art Deco style.

The home features iron work of tropical foliage on the stairs, a cylindrical fish tank at the stairs landing, a dinning room that resembles a sea vessel and a loggia with moon gates. The Baker's dream house reflected their love of travel, modernism, and Miami's embrace of the Art Deco style.

The living room is grand and spacious. The ceiling was outfitted with elegant beams in tribute to Pauline Baker's family lumber empire.

The Bakers commissioned a romantic masterpiece for the dining room walls, murals depicting scenes from the novel Anthony Adverse.

Resources
Miami Design Preservation League
P.O. Box 190180
Miami Beach, FL 33119
Phone: 305-672-2014
Website: www.mdpl.org
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Special Presentation : Episode HMI-S
•	The Barnacle
•	Vizcaya
•	Coral Gables / Merrick House
•	Mediterranean Revival
•	Java Head
•	Miami Modern
•	The Pink House

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