Events

BY INVITATION ONLY Marking its forty-third year this season, the Preservation Foundation’s Dinner Dance brings together Palm Beach society to celebrate the island’s iconic architecture and natural beauty.

Born in an Alabama sawmill town, Bobby McAlpine designed his first house at the age of five and hasn’t stopped since. Architect, romantic poet, and entrepreneur, he envisions home as a timeless, graceful, and emotionally evocative place. Form the time he founded the firm in 1983, he has realized this ideal in a diverse array […]

For more than 20 years, Ben Pentreath has been a champion of exceptional English design, creating homes, interiors, and town developments that are at once traditional and distinctively modern, timeless, and boldly contemporary. An award-winning classical architectural designer and decorator whose impressive client list includes King Charles, Pentreath and his eponymous studio, Ben Pentreath Ltd, […]

Louis P. Nelson is a Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach at the University of Virginia. He is a specialist in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published work on the American South, the Caribbean, and West Africa, and is a leading advocate for the reconstruction […]

This year we honor the garden of Villa Giardino. Originally created by Ohan Berberyan as a place to sell his antiques, the garden was beautifully restored by Mario Nievera under the direction of the homeowners. The Lesly S. Smith Landscape Award was created by the Preservation Foundation in 2011 to honor excellence in landscape design. […]

Tom Pickering, Head of Glasshouse Collections at the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, will lead us on a fascinating journey from a recent expedition to the tropical Comoros Islands off the coast of Africa in search of a rare plant species through to the architectural history and future of Kew Gardens iconic Palm House. Tom […]