Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Have you been to Hotel Clermont in Atlanta, Gentle Readers? It is WILD! When we checked in, I asked nice guy at the desk about the building. He said, as he handed us glasses of champagne, that it was built in 1924 and originally housed people who worked at the Sears, Roebuck & Co. down …
When someone says, "Mondrian," what do you think of?
Me, too
But that couldn't be farther from Marcel Wanders' design for the Mondrian hotel in South Beach. You saw the white-on-white lobby in my last post - remember the overscale columns and the black staircase? Nary a grid nor a primary color in sight.
Apart from the fact that designing a hotel like a Mondrian painting* would be well, kind of dreadful, the designer gives us the Dutch connection - and a wink and a nod - in another way....
There's so much to say that I'll have to do this in several posts, but let me start first by talking about the DESIGN of the Mondrian hotel in South Beach, Miami. Creator: the products and interiors designer, Marcel Wanders.
In short, it's wacky. In a good way. Fresh, crazy, perspective-defying, and yes, a little bit indulgent, but it totally works, so who cares?...
What does a billion dollar hotel renovation look like? So glad you asked. Welcome to Fontainebleau Resort complex in Miami Beach. Originally designed by Morris Lapidus and built in 1954, its website proclaims: Following a $1 billion renovation and expansion [it repoened in November 2008], Fontainebleau is a spectacular blend of Miami’s glamorous golden era …
