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Diego Suarez | |
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| Born | 1888 |
| Died | September 14, 1974 (aged 85–86) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Garden designer |
| Spouse | Evelyn 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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, "