Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Given that the temperature in D.C. dipped to 5 degrees last night - that's FIVE degrees, people; a single digit - Miami seems like a distant memory.
Nonetheless, I have a few more pictures of the Mondrian to show you, so I'll make this long on visuals, short on words....
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?...
Is there anything more festive than a pink plexiglass-topped table? Restaurant designers have all the fun. These tables are the bright spots in an industrial space – jolts of color in a sea of neutrals. This is a perfect example of something I run into all the time, though: it’s a great idea, probably not …