MONDRIAN HOTEL REVIEW
Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has
created a magical fantasy world for
Morgans Hotel Group’s Mondrian on
Miami’s Biscayne Bay.
onceived by Marcel Wanders as “Sleeping
C
Beauty’s Castle,” Mondrian in South
Beach, Miami is a magical fantasy world of
giant golden bells inlaid with glittering chandeliers,
baroque-modern furniture, intricately patterned rugs,
and mosaic tiling.
Wanders has previously worked on hospitality projects
including The Lute Suites – an innovative collection
of rooms scattered across Amsterdam – and the
restaurant at New York’s The Hotel On Rivington, but
Mondrian Miami is his first full-scale hotel project,
crowned with several floors of ‘residences’ available to
purchase.
Where Sleeping Beauty’s Castle in the Grimm
Brothers fairytale was surrounded by a thorny forest
of briars, Wanders has created a labyrinthine set of
lush gardens which lead to the main hotel. Here,
private cabanas are set within tall archways of living
foliage. Tented areas with sandpits and bouncy toys,
enhance the playful feel.
Wanders has influenced the architecture of the
building as well as its interiors, by extending the
existing curvilinear envelope to form a semicircular
sculptural structure in which the rooms resemble
theatrical boxes overlooking the tropical gardens
below. The Dutchman believes that “interiors are
about theatre, leading you from one idea to the next
and the next,” and in the theatre that is Mondrian
Miami, “everyone has the best seat in the house“.
HOTEL REVIEW MARCH / APRIL 2009 031
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