Miami Beach Is Architecture & Interior Design Central
July 14, 2015 - With the prestigious Pritzker Prize awards ceremony at the New World Center May 15, it's official Miami Beach is the grand new playing field of global architecture. The Frank Gehry-designed centerpiece on Lincoln Road is the perfect venue for the coveted Pritzker, its Nobel Prize. Attending will be previous awardees Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban. This year's laureate is Germany’s Frei Otto, who is feted posthumously, having recently passed.
Ever since Art Basel and Design Miami spotlighted Miami as the choice destination for Fendi contemporary art and design fairs, Miami has attracted big-label corporations as Porsche (Porsche Design Tower), and LVMH, as well as top luxury hotel and real estate developers with deep pockets anxious to do big business here.
Maison&Objet, the chic home and interior design fair from Paris, recently added Miami to their annual roster of destinations and debuted at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week. Bringing a new, sophisticated moneyed crowd to the possibilities of life in South Beach, the show was a smash. Savvy furniture and home accessories designers from Rio to Bangkok surveyed our newest five-star destinations -- Ian Schrager’s Edition, Metropolitan by COMO-Paola Navone; 1 Hotel & Homes-Meyer/Davis Studio -- all created by the best names in the design business. Because state-of-the-art oceanfront penthouses need incredible furniture.
But, famous architects and interior designers don't come cheap. Or, easy. Here are just some of the luminaries attached to multimillion-dollar projects in town -- Richard Meier (Four Seasons Surf Club); [Norman]Foster+Partners (Faena House); Isay Weinfeld (Shore Club); Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron (Jade Signature), Studio Gang (Sweetbird South Condos); Karim Rashid & Piero Lissoni (Paraiso Bay).
Museum living is a prime factor when shopping for a beautiful new home. Impeccable design is the wow! amenity. Just think of this when scrolling for your Miami Beach condo for sale. With its whimsical Philippe Starck grandeur, Icon South Beach, the sleek South of Fifth tower overlooking MacArthur Causeway, was the forerunner for uber-designer condominiums. It started a trend. Today, every luxury tower has a renowned architect and interior designer attached. It's the sign of the times. The design of the times.
