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villaitaliamiami.com - Miami Beach Boutique Hotel In the United States, Art Deco was a product of new ideas and movements and found its inspirations in many distinct early 20th Century European design styles such as Cubism, French Art Deco, German Bauhaus and Expressionism, Dutch de Stijl and Amsterdam School, Vienna Secession and others. Miami Beach architects used local imagery to create what we now call Tropical Deco. These buildings feature relief ornamentation featuring whimsical flora, fauna and ocean-liner motifs to reinforce the image of Miami Beach as a seaside resort. The Historic Preservation Board of Miami beach declared Harmon Villa a Historic building status due to its rich history and architectural design significance in the community. Its history captures this remarkable growth of Miami Beach from a seaside area to residential community. In 2009 under the visionary creation of new ownership, Harmon Villa began a major construction restoration project to restore its beauty and original architecture. Construction completed in March 2011 in what is now known as Villa Italia Hotel. Villa Italia Hotel features a private Villa which happens to be 1 of only 2 Villas in all of Miami Beach. The Villa at Villa Italia Hotel provides guests a home away from home experience with 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, dining room, living room, kitchen and private terrace. For More Information & Reservations for: Villa Italia Hotel Contact: 354 Washington Ave Miami Beach, FL 33139 ...

www.SusanBerryDesign.com, SusanBerry@ClassicalHomeDesign.com Orlando, Florida Home of Luxury Home Designer, Susan Berry, ASID. Palazzo del Lago, the 2006 Street of Dreams in Bella Collina, represents the very finest in architectural design, interior innovation and handcrafted artistry. The interior detailing, materials selections and exterior details and specifications are the work of Susan Berry, of Classical Home Design. Walls with the look of aged plaster, copper-clad windows, medieval-style groin vaults and intricate wrought-iron accents further evoke the home's old-world feel. Those time-honored touches give way to a more polished, sophisticated look in the formal areas of the home, where imported marble and onyx, magnificent gold and crystal chandeliers, and exquisitely embellished floors and walls create a refined air. The dramatic rotunda above the stair tower is hand-painted to resemble the stained-glass dome of a Venetian conservatory spotted by builder Rick Vogel during his European travels. Homage is paid to the demands—and pleasures—of modern life as well. To answer the present-day emphasis on alfresco living space, ingenious design provides the best of both worlds in the rear of the home adjacent to the pool. Here, massive pocketed sliding doors telescope open to create an indoor-outdoor space as the interior space blends seamlessly with the lanai and pool. Outdoors, extensive gold travertine decking leads toward elegant balustrades that frame the space that ...

Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture ARC 5352 Comprehensive Design Project (Design10) Spring 2009 By: Alberto Gonzalez "While large 'signature architect' museums have become, with the skyscraper, the most iconic architectural forms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the small-scale museum, working within the more commonly encountered constraints of site, size, and economy, is perhaps a greater test of an architect's mettle. Terrence Riley, executive director of the Miami Art Museum, once said, "All museums are local. They are frequently populated by tourists but they can't really survive without local support." This is probably most true when the museums are of a modest scale. They are sometimes empowered by the donation of a single source of wealth, but are more likely to be the result of grass-roots efforts by local citizens. The Museum of Florida Architecture project will explore the architect's responsibilities to client and to community, as well as to the contents of buildings for which he or she is responsible.' - Aron Temkin