Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 32-3 i Florida Design – Digital Edition

Even by Miami’s anything-goes real estate standards, Fisher Island’s latest offering is impressive. The enclave’s Links Estates are the final new 12 single-family houses that will be built on the island known for having one of America’s wealthiest zip codes. Not surprisingly, the residences (which start at 10,000 square feet on lots anywhere from 13,000 square feet to half an acre) boast impressive design talent. Developer Heinrich von Hanau has tapped architect Portuondo Perotti for the “modern Tuscan” two-level estates with ample rooftops, ground-level infinity pools, and gardens that artfully connect indoor and outdoor kitchens, dining areas, terraces, and multiple living spaces. Said gardens feature the stylings of Enzo Enea, whose approach recalls villas on the Amalfi Coast. Inside the homes, European firm Indelux has been tapped to deliver move-in ready…

PANHANDLE SEASIDE The utopian design ideals at play in Seaside, the very first community to embrace the paradigms of New Urbanism, have made the community renowned worldwide, much of that largely due to its immortalization in the film The Truman Show. In that movie, however, the town’s pristine backdrop served to advance a story about artificial living, but in reality that couldn’t be further from the truth. Seaside’s pedestrian-minded streets and common-language houses give the town coherence and a strong sense of place. Life doesn’t get more authentic than that. seasidefl.com PALM BEACH WHITEHALL Part of the Flagler Museum footprint, the design legacy of Henry Flagler’s former home is well documented. We know it was a chance for architects John Carrère and Thomas Hastings to show America that the Beaux…

Never work for family or acquaintances, he’d been told, but landscape master Keith Williams took a leap of faith when he decided to tackle the 14,000 square feet of gardens at a good friend’s Palm Beach residence. He couldn’t have asked for a more enriching experience or more satisfying results. “Everything about this project was inspired by Bermuda architecture and landscape,” says Williams. “We spent several days in the island studying [structures] and gardens to prepare.” Back home in South Florida, Williams and his team put that research to good use by focusing on elements such as water features, fountains, and rivulets so they would read authentic. Large coral boulders were incorporated into the walls and foundation of the home just like in the Bermudian houses they encountered during their…

THE VIENNESE PENCHANT for transforming historic landmarks into modern-day marvels peaks at Park Hyatt Vienna, a thoughtful and striking adaptive reuse of the former headquarters of the Austrian Hungarian Monarchy Bank. Behind the stately, neoclassical façade and original boxed windows of the early twentieth-century UNESCO-listed building is now a hotel that balances financial history with design finesse. Underground, the original three-ton steel vault door opens to a view of the sleek swimming pool, housed in the former strong room. This subterranean pool glows from soft gold lights and stone floors, nodding to the shimmering bars that preceded them, while framed by a state-of-the-art gymnasium and a world-class spa. At ground level, the grand cashier’s hall—completely restored to its glory of marble columns, decorative vaulted ceilings, and stained glass—now accommodates the…

RELATIONSHIPS BUILT ON A LOVE for home are nothing new. Such was the case when homeowner Theresa Germano tapped interior designer Faith Fix to spear-head the look of a cozy, two-story new build in Naples, and the two set out on a collaboration in every sense of the word. “I didn’t think I was going to hire a designer, but there were so many decisions to make,” says Germano who met Fix after a recommendation from her builder. “The profile of the moulding, the little strip that goes between tile and wood, door styles… my husband and I were overwhelmed. We needed somebody to be a sounding board and guide us through the process.” Fix was there with answers and advice when needed, and was pleasantly surprised with Germano’s input…

ADVENTUROUS WORLD TRAVELERS, biotech professionals Marcy and Derek Hennecke have journeyed all over the globe. Canadian by birth, the two have lived in numerous places, including Egypt, Mexico, and Holland, all while raising three daughters, each of which was born in a different country. But when it came time to embrace a new chapter as empty nesters, they decided the place to do so was a high-rise condominium in the Bayshore area of Tampa, a city they love and know well. They found their new 3,886-square-foot home on the fifteenth floor of The Sanctuary at Alexandra Place, the much-talked-about residential tower known for its exquisite combination of stucco, wood, and glass. There, their chosen residence encompasses 360-degree views of Tampa with a predominant eastern sunrise exposure, the downtown district to the…

Talk about checking off multiple boxes. The new Metamorphosis collection released by Paola Lenti in collaboration with the Campana Brothers is a testament to sustainability, the joy of color, and the limitless possibilities of artisanal design. Made from materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill or polluting our oceans, Metamorphosis consists of five seating options and a rug inspired by the natural world. Many of the amorphous pieces recall crawling creatures before they emerge from their chrysalis, transformed and renewed. “This is an awareness raising project,” says Lenti. “In this period characterized by limited access to materials, the design of this new collection is a creative and tangible proposal that can reunite us with the cultural values of our not-so-distant past when reusing objects and materials was considered…

There’s something about a kitchen showroom that gets our imaginations going. It’s hard not to envision what great chefs we’d become as we peruse next-generation ranges that can handle the most complicated of recipes. The idea of Champagne chilling in the sleek stainless steel refrigerator for the dinner parties we’d surely host brings a smile to our faces. We fantasize about the Marie Kondo precision we’d implement inside our African mahogany cabinets. In short, we dream—just what good design should help us do. These pleasurable scenarios as we conjure up the kitchen of our dreams are par for the course at Sarasota’s Lineadecor, a Turkey-made brand that’s been active in the U.S. market since 2010 and on the global stage since 1991. The company’s first Florida showroom, within Fibrocon at Clark…

For some designers, working with limited space is a challenge to overcome. For others, it’s an opportunity to embrace out-of-the-box thinking. Ivonne Ronderos of DKOR Interiors is very much in the latter category, and a recent commission at a condominium in the Brickell Flatiron tower in Miami put her organizational and layout skills to the test. The 1,017-square-foot residence serves as the vacation getaway for a bachelor from North Carolina who turned to Ronderos and her team to deliver a distinct masculine pied-à-terre where he could entertain friends with small get-togethers and dinner parties. “He was open to unconventional space planning that would be conducive to his lifestyle,” says Ronderos, “and he wanted to really monetize the space and make it comfortable when dining, hosting, and working from home. It…

When you’re a sea-loving diehard Beatles fan about to take ownership of a sleek, new 197-foot yacht, odds are you have some names in mind. But this is not the first time the British band’s musical catalogue has inspired this owner to baptize by rock. Before there was Come Together, there were Let It Be, and Here Comes the Sun, as well as the Beatles adjacent Imagine. And like those before it, Come Together stirs emotions as any great song should. The vessel comes from the drawing board of Norwegian-born designer Espen Oeino and was built by Damen Yachting at the famous Amels shipyard in the Netherlands. Launched this past spring, the yacht’s head-turning trapezoidal hull windows, ample foredeck, towering bow, and stunning metallic Pebble Gray custom paint color make it…

THE ALLURE OF FLORIDA’S GULF COAST has been known to entice Southerners to cross state lines more times than we can count. So it went for an Alabama couple with extended family when they encountered the perfect lot for a vacation home on State Road 30A in Alys Beach, a community designed in the New Urbanist fashion with tree-lined streets, sidewalks, walkable shops, and restaurants. Views of the surrounding nature preserve, including a lake dotted with native Bismarck palms, live oaks, and palmetto trees, solidified their decision to make Florida their getaway destination. Once Domin Bock Architects had done their job with the structure, the owners approached New York-based interior designer David Frazier with an essential request for the look they wanted to create. “Our goal was to achieve a…

TRADING SOUTH BEACH FOR Coconut Grove gave a gregarious Miami couple the jolt of energy they needed to recharge the next chapter of their lives. Of course, their chosen locale has had much to do with their reinvigorating new beginning. At Park Grove, the dynamic three-tower development conceived by starchitect Rem Koolhaas, the empty nesters opted for a 3,356-square-foot convex unit with views of the water as far as the eye can see. The open-layout construction of the condominium cleared the path for Miami’s Sire Design, a studio led by Eilyn Jimenez, to fulfill all the musts in the homeowners’ wish list: two master suites with separate lounge areas, a next-generation kitchen conducive to entertaining, discreet yet ample storage space, and optimal views from just about anywhere inside the residence. Jimenez’s…

Utopian Ideals FANNY AND MICHELLE HAIM IMAGINE THE ULTIMATE SANCTUM WITH SUSTAINABILITY AS THEIR GUIDING FORCE Q. How did the Earth lounge we see here come to be? MH: At Casacor Miami 2019, artists and designers were asked to create a space using sustainability as the theme. We were given the opportunity to create something completely unique, carte blanche, as long as it offered a strong backbone supporting the concept of sustainability. Q. What did you envision this room being used for? FH: As a place for humans to interact with one another, void of digital life for a moment, and be present with each other. Q. In what ways did you address the sustainability theme? MH: The approach for the installation was to create a system of modules that…

Days after a copy of The Draper Touch arrived in the mail, I got the news that the book’s author, beloved designer and friend Carleton Varney, had passed away. At dinner just a few weeks prior, he’d told me how excited he was about this deluxe edition of the book of the same title he’d written in 1988. He considered it a career highlight and a privilege to tell Dorothy Draper’s story. That didn’t surprise me, because I’d seen his reverence for Draper before, most recently at his decorating school at the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island, Michigan. His students kept gushing about his visionary decorating style, but Carleton gave all the credit to Draper, who’d given him his start in the business and had developed the exuberant style he later…

After years working in architecture and design in New York, a pandemic pivot landed Luis Ignacio Figallo and Patrisa Pruthi in Miami with a most original niche. The two friends decided it was time to rethink their careers and pursue their personal creative interests with BAS Atelier, an artisanal design practice focused on custom sculptural reliefs. “Bas-relief is recorded as one of the earliest artistic expressions by humankind, [dating as far back as] 30,000 years ago,” says Pruthi. “We’ve transformed this classic technique into an art form that evokes a contemporary yet timeless aesthetic of our time, and one that speaks to our style.” Textured, three-dimensional studies in abstraction, Figallo’s and Pruthi’s pieces are inspired by natural and architectural forms, and each begins with a highly intuitive process of freehand…

Anyone familiar with an Edition property can attest to the hospitality brand’s commitment to design quality, and the company’s newest location in Tampa remains honest to that tradition with a hotel unlike any the city has seen before. Rooted in a strong sense of refined simplicity, the Tampa Edition is the sum of a combination of efforts from the New York-based design outfits of Morris Adjmi Architects, Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture, and Roman and Williams. The trio’s approach infuses the hotel’s public spaces and its 172 guestrooms with both the metropolitan energy a city demands and the warm-weather sensibility a town like Tampa expects. “The design is simple and pure,” says hotelier Ian Schrager, who developed Edition with Marriott International. “There isn’t anything superfluous or gratuitous, nor a wasted gesture.” This statement is…

WHEN APPROACHED ABOUT THE RENOVATION of an oddly shaped, 7,760-square-foot residence in a Delray Beach country club, designer Allen Saunders knew the task would be Goliathan. While the cul-de-sac property had its attributes, Saunders realized the 1999 Mediterranean manse’s yellow-toned walls, outdated Saturnia floors, and window frames overwrought with gridded mullions were but a few of the features that had to go. The seasoned designer was certain a total gut renovation was in the cards, and he was correct. But homeowners and real estate developers Barbara and Jeffrey Rosenberg, who had worked with Saunders on multiple commercial and residential projects, knew he was the right man for the job and trusted him implicitly. “We were given carte blanche with one particular requirement,” says Saunders. “They wanted to walk into the…