Condé Nast Traveler ranked Washington Park Hotel #5 in Miami in its Readers’ Choice Awards, in a market as discerning as South Beach. We must have done something right. The concept: a city-block park frontage with an adult sandbox, toys, and the legendary F&B outlet Employees Only. The lobby exterior...
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The mission statement was clear: create a boutique hotel experience from an internationally acclaimed food and beverage outlet. With outposts in NYC, St. Tropez, and Ibiza, the journey from bread to bed began with an airy elegance in the heart of South Beach. Accommodations ranging from 370 to 2,100 square...
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Union was ours, start to finish: Bigtime's exclusive design project at The Press Hotel, the old Portland Press Herald building, a project 100 percent ours. We let the building write the concept: food as theater, kitchen as stage. The center-core kitchen is exposed, the line worked into the bar experience,...
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The Press Hotel is the old Portland Press Herald building, a 1923 Gannett landmark on Exchange Street, turned into a 110-room hotel in Marriott's Autograph Collection. We did not build the lobby. We conceptualized it, including the two pieces that define the room: the front desk, and the printing blocks,...
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"Nestled in the basement of the Betsy Hotel, B Bar seems out of place on a strip known for cheesy bars and pushy hostesses selling the catch of the day. B Bar could easily be located in midtown Miami or, even better, Manhattan. It oozes Wynwood and Lower East Side...
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Taking design inspiration from nature, with a mid-century motif at the forefront, turned an empty 2,200 square foot getaway condo in Miami Beach into a personalized high-end boutique hotel design, sophisticated yet functional. Inspired by the eastern view of the ocean, beach, and clouds, the design took its cues from...
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Located in the Stiles Hotel in the center of South Beach, Primrose is a cozy, intimate eatery with high backed tufted banquettes lining the walls, bookcases, and plenty of candlelit lanterns illuminating the space. Date-night territory right there. With a people-watching patio in the front and intimate tables by the...
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Dubai is notable for its luxurious excess, and the addition of this restaurant hot spot has elevated that reputation. A fusion of high-end restaurant and high-energy scene, Bagatelle Dubai is a dine-and-stay venue, both intimate and lively. The restaurant serves contemporary French cuisine, and the interior design reflects a taste...
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The lobby of this boutique hotel sits on the site of a former gas station on US 1 in Islamorada, so we gave it a little Googie and a lot of road trip. The ceiling is driftwood salvaged from the site's previous tenant, the fixtures nod to the crab and...
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Our room at The Betsy is underground. The Betsy is a landmark at 1440 Ocean Drive, all Georgian manners and literary programming, and in 2009 we put a speakeasy in its basement: B Bar. A hotel that polite needed a basement with a past. Ours got a reflective black vinyl...
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