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ABOVE:Marcel Wanders’ designs for the public areas include giant golden bells inset with chandeliers and a stunning spiral staircase linking the lobby,
lounge and restaurant. OPPOSITE PAGE: The hotel’s gardens have cabanas housed in huge foliage archways. Guestrooms feature furniture, rugs, Bisazza
tiling, and light fittings
Since making his name with his iconic Knotted Chair, Here the filtered light and sinking sun are reflected in scatters light across the dimly lit room. A door hidden
Wanders has become a prolific product designer for etched, tinted mirrors. Golden candelabras and onyx, in the perforated patterned wall leads to a manicure
the likes of B&B Italia, Poliform, Moroso, Flos and jewel-cut stools are dotted between Ottomans and area. Bisazza Mosaic is tiled across the walls of
Moooi. It’s no surprise to find the hotel and residences new antiques. Gold leaf wallpaper surrounds a stretch the locker rooms splashing them with continuous
furnished with signature Wanders’ pieces, many of patterned sofa set upon a dark herringbone floor. patterns and colors that overflow through the rest
them designed specifically for this project. The hotel is also the setting for Jeffrey Chodorow’s of the spa. As well as the usual sauna, steam room,
The centrepiece of the hotel is a stunning black latest Asia de Cuba restaurant – a common feature and treatment rooms, a cushioned lounge features a
patterned staircase which spirals through the lobby, in Morgans’ hotels with the concept’s signature snoozer rocking chair and Delft Blue style carpet.
lounge and bar areas. In the lobby, Black ‘Smoke’ communal table. Again golden bells, with crystal The Mondrian is set away from the main drag of
chairs sit against a background of stark white walls, chandeliers set within, are suspended above the table. South Beach hotels in the fashionable, emerging
embellished only with the childlike face which stares Patterned, cushioned deep booths line the walls of the neighbourhood along Biscayne Bay. The complex
out from many of the walls. Supporting columns have room. The restaurant opens out onto the terrace with consists of 335 studios, one- and two-bedroom hotel
been clad to resemble giant contoured table legs. its private dining gardens and “kissing corners.” residences, and tower suites, priced at the time of
Beyond the lobby, guests enter the Sunset Lounge. In the Agua spa a mirrored-mosaic reception desk writing anywhere between $500,000 and $6 million.
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