Nightclub design aside, we’re excited to announce the book release of SECRET SOCIETY featuring Callin Fortis and Big Time Design‘s award-winning speakeasy inspired project, B BAR, located in the Betsy Hotel in South Beach. Secret Society is a “journey inside the global secret society of the members-only clubs and the...
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Big Time Design's Callin Fortis speaks with Aspire, a business and luxury magazine exclusively published for business class and first class flights on Etihad airways. The article, Castles in the Clouds, says, "They're bold, beautiful and guarentee a good time. Discover why nightclub designers are the life of a million...
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Big Time Design takes inspiration from nature to turn an empty getaway condo into a personalized boutique hotel. Callin Fortis of Big Time Design has transformed this bare, 2,300-square-foot, three-bedroom Miami Beach condo into a luxurious space resembling a high-end hotel suite — sophisticated, simple yet functional. Fortis has taken...
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What, exactly, is global design? Is it a perception of aesthetic, doing business in an international arena — or something else entirely? At Miami's Betsy Hotel, Hotel Design, along with sister publication Hospitality Architecture + Design sat down for breakfast with six designers and three sponsors to try to answer...
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Designed by international hospitality designer Callin Fortis, principal of Big Time Design, guests enter the bar via a dimly lit passage that still suggests its service past. Fortis has included optical illusion as part of the magic that transforms this otherwise claustrophobic space. By using a reflective vinyl that acts...
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Located right on the beach in South Beach, The Betsy Hotel not only encloses in its walls the history of an entire era, but also the luxury and exclusivity that have come to stay over the years. ...
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The last place anyone expects to find anything remotely hip is Ocean Drive. But the renovated Betsy Hotel has done just that with its speakeasy space, B Bar. Described as a "jewel box," the lounge transports you to something akin to an obscure New York hot spot. Even if you...
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Annointed “everything that was important in Miami” by Urban Daddy in 2009, B Bar is the latest creation of visionary designer Callin Fortis, the aesthetic master also behind iconic nightclubs Crobar, Cameo and Vinyl. Guests enter B Bar via a dim, hidden stairwell inside the subtly luxurious Betsy Hotel on...
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"Shades of dark red, lavender and deep purple, a reflective black vinyl ceiling, and hand-cut Parisian crystal lamps add just the right complimentary golden glow and a sense of the ethereal to B Bar, the deep underground lounge now open at The Betsy Hotel on South Beach. Evoking the classic...
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"In a town with more clubs per capita than any place else on earth, it's more and more difficult for a venue to stand out. That's what made Crobar and then Cameo so appealing. The mix of whim and wile had not been seen since the days of Lapidus, and...
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