Diego Suarez (garden designer)

Diego Suarez
Born1888
DiedSeptember 14, 1974(1974-09-14) (aged 85–86)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGarden designer
SpouseEvelyn Isabella Marshall

Diego Suarez (1888 in Bogotá, Colombia – 14 September 1974 in New York City, New York)[1] was a garden designer best known for his work at James Deering's Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.[2] He also served as a press attaché and minister-counselor for Chile in Washington, D.C. from 1948 until 1952 and counselor to the Colombian delegation to the United Nations.

  1. ^ He was a grandson of the Colombian revolutionist and caudillo Francisco de Miranda. Biographical details are taken from an interview with Suarez reported in James T. Maher, Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces (Boston: Little, Brown) 1975:190-91.
  2. ^ Brooke, Steven The Gardens of Florida 1997 p. 41. "The third member of the team was Diego Suarez, a Colombian-born, Italian-trained landscape architect whom Deering and Chalfin had met during one of their trips abroad. Suarez had shown them villas and gardens in Florence, "