MIAMI MI AMORE : DELANO

Posted on 2011-02-21

Philippe Starck’s tantalizing brand of New Design has sent a gorgeous shiver through the status quo of what is expected from a boutique hotel.
What Starck has achieved at SoBe’s Delano is something else. A temple to warped minimalism, this gorgeous Art Deco mistress is the statuesque glamour puss of the South Beach brigade.
Under the southern sun, the gorgeous pool lounges like a liquid catwalk, the rooms an albino elegy. And with Master Chef Claude Troisgros at the helm in Delano’s Blue Door Fish restaurant, this looker packs a fair punch when it comes to fine-dining.
Starck has pulled off stark but sprinkled it with stardust.

The pièce de la resistance however has to be The Florida Room. The gleaming lovechild of Morgans Hotel Group and Kravitz Design (Lenny, to be precise) this schizophrenic space is homage to Miami’s goodtime girl ethic, and the ideal backdrop to the slow-shot Wong Kar-Wai epic that never was.
 
Here at Black Tomato we’re in the mood for love. And for Delano, we are unashamedly head over heels.

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