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| 9.17.2021
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ORIS DUKE WAS not the first heiress
to build a mansion so lavish that it
actually out-classed the very category.
But she was, with resources and
worldly interests, uniquely well suited to the
task. The almost mythically situated Shangri La,
Duke's spectacular residence in Diamond Head,
just outside Honolulu, is truly singular. To design
such a palatial and extravagant home, there was,
for Duke, only one man for the job, and that man
happened to be the man at that time—Marion
Sims Wyeth. One of the most significant architects
of the 20th century, Wyeth was the reasonable
THE
PRIDE
Of
PALM
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