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Past & Present
When Peter and Fabiola Spooner began to envision a business venture in New Smyrna Beach that would reflect their love of design and hospitality, a historic B&B never crossed their minds. Yet, as soon as they set eyes on the Victoria Estate, a nearly
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Year One
Florida Design and Bakes & Kropp Fine Cabinetry celebrated the showroom’s first-year anniversary in West Palm Beach with a pre-Valentine’s Day gathering themed Chocolates, Champagne, and Kitchen Design. Managing Partner Paul Kropp flew in from Michig
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United In Style
The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach has been a gathering spot for well-heeled residents and visitors seeking accommodations, ambiance, and nourishment on The Island for more than 75 years. When owners Sarah and Andrew Wetenhall took the helm in 2016, they
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All Is Bright
“Lighting can create beauty,” says Nathan Orsman, an architectural and landscape lighting designer with offices in Miami, New York, and Southampton whose illumination skills are revered here in the United States and abroad. “Take this Miami Beach apa
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Hot Import
THE TASTEMAKER: One of the Gulf Coast’s most esteemed interior designers, Naples-based Kira Krümm is the founder of Koastal Design Group, a studio known all over Florida and the United States for its elegant approach to seaside-inspired design. THE O
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Ciao, Italia!
B&B Italia introduces a new approach to design consulting and retail Located at the 4141 building on NE Second Avenue, the B&B Italia location in the Design District is the company’s first store on the U.S. east coast and the second Design Studio con
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Personal Vernacular
Presented to much success at the most recent edition of Design Miami/, the Kundung Pembe Chair is part of industrial designer Jomo Tariku’s new body of work and his first foray into using bronze. “Even though the Kundung Pembe Chair is very ergonomic
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Garden Talk
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with you. What’s new at the firm these days? We’ve grown our family. We’ve added a new project manager and landscape architect in training, Loren Stewart. And we’re busy as ever with new estate projects in the
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The Influencers
Miami designer Maris Raffa held another successful edition of the Maris Raffa Experience at the New World Center in Miami Beach in late 2023. Themed The Journey to Success, the gathering focused on influencers and their secrets to victory. Guest spea
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Out Of The Box
When Paola Lenti decided to open shop in Miami in 2022, she bypassed the Design District for its more bohemian neighbor to the south, Wynwood. “We often choose unconventional areas for our flagship stores,” said Lenti to FD Miami at the time. “That’s
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Golden Hour
While enroute to the car wash on a recent Saturday morning, I tuned into NPR’s Weekend Edition just as host Scott Simon was quizzing Paul Marvin, president of Marvin Windows, about current home building trends. As I listened, Marvin touched on topics
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Retro Revamp
WHEN A CALIFORNIA couple decided to move east to Florida, St. Petersburg’s year-round beach weather and consummate charm put the city on their radar. “After one visit, we fell in love with St. Pete, and, more specifically, with the Old Northeast neig
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Fact & Fiction
Known as a vintage curator and founder of the Instagram shop Loft and Thought, Carmen Nash finds inspiration in the prose of writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. In her new collection for Troy Lighting, Folk and Flora, the Clearwater-ba
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Convivial Spirit
One of the aspects of a 1920s bungalow in St. Petersburg that charmed its homeowners into making it their home is how it wrapped them in coziness, a source of joy until their three children grew into their active school-age years and the snug kitchen
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Architectural Style
Frank Gehry and Louis Vuitton have been blurring the lines between fashion and design for more than two decades. The Pritzker winning starchitect and his team have developed everything from the Murano glass stoppers on the perfume bottles of the bran
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Calendar
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Robyn Branch Design “Design Therapy,” page 156 Helping a couple build their forever home in Amelia Island was a particularly satisfying project for interior designer Robyn Branch. The project was a literal labor of love for everyone involved as it he
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Design Variety
Oh, the power of light. At Florida Design we understand all too well how integral it is to winning interiors. That’s why we fell in love with Nathan Orsman’s illumination schematics for a Miami Beach condo designed by Joe Nahem. Well-known for his gl
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New World Order
Known in Italy since 1988 for its kitchen systems, Modulnova recently opened a showroom in Miami (at 3925 Federal Highway) thanks to the efforts of partners Carlos Bustinza, Brett Sugerman, Giselle Loor-Sugerman, and Veronica Bennett. The new locatio
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Beachside Backdrop
ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE MULTIPLE ADDRESSES across the country, a New York couple discovered that finding an ideal Palm Beach home was more challenging than anticipated. The husband and wife wanted to set up residence in a desired location and were adamant
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Artful Balance
FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND ART-CENTRIC rarely go together when speaking about interior design, but that was the directive designer Robert Rionda received when a Miami couple approached him about the interiors of their 8,000-square-foot condominium in Key La
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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Daphne Nikolopoulos EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Luis R. Rigual DESIGN DIRECTOR Laurie Spector ACQUISITIONS EDITOR Annette Sessa-Galbo WEB EDITOR Abigail Duffy CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Riki Altman-Yee | Christopher Day Jeanne De Lathouder | Saxon H
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Taking Flight
The name of his showroom implies rebirth and renewal, and that certainly seems to be the state of mind of Cocoon Gallery owner Mitchell Siegel these days. The purveyor of custom organic furnishings and decor, who has been servicing Naples for 24 year
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Brand Awareness
It’s clear interior designer Alessandra Branca has a soft spot for Palm Beach—and vice versa. Now that her boutique on Worth Avenue is a bona fide success, the tastemaker is expanding her footprint in the area with the new Casa Branca Atelier & Showr
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Home On The Range
WHEN RAMON AND GEORGINA Corona decided to provide their sizeable family with more space to gather within a wide swath of ranchland in Okeechobee, there was one architect they were determined to hire. “Max Strang was the only person we wanted to work
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The Art Of Celebration
Respected for its superior craftsmanship when it comes to Brazilian furniture, Artefacto knows when to turn up the volume on celebration. That was certainly the case at the brand’s annual Art Week brunch this past December. Owner Paulo Bacchi and his
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Design Therapy
ALWAYS UP FOR FUN AND ADVENTURE, homeowners Liza and Terry Cotter are glass-half-full types. After losing their California ranch in a fire in 2017 and then overcoming a serious bicycle accident that required Liza to undergo nine surgeries, their drea
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Altered State
As with many great movements, surrealism began after a period of somber uncertainty. In the aftermath of World War I, Europe needed a cultural revolution of a different sort, one that would liberate the imagination with surprise and unexpected juxtap
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Meant to cocoon the body on lazy afternoons, the Kida hanging chair by Stephen Burks for DEDON is a testament to design’s ability to make our lives cozier. The chair’s frame is the first to be wrapped, rather than woven, in Dedon’s proprietary Fiber
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