Best hotels in Miami | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Miami.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Miami

The Art Deco district of South Beach gets all the mythology, but the more interesting design conversation in Miami has shifted north. At Surfside, the Four Seasons at The Surf Club occupies what was, in its 1930s heyday, one of the most glamorous private clubs in the Americas — a Richard Meier restoration brought it back in 2017, though restoration undersells the ambition. The bones of Russell Pancoast's original Surf Club structure remain visible within a development that layered in tower residences and a Four Seasons operation without erasing the palimpsest of the place. A few miles south, Faena Hotel Miami Beach represents a different kind of architectural theater: Alan Faena and Ennio Capasa commissioned Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA to masterplan the Faena District, and the hotel's interiors — executed by Lenny Kravitz's design firm — arrive somewhere between Buenos Aires and old Havana, heavy on crimson and taxidermy. The Setai, also on Miami Beach, takes the opposite approach: a cool, almost severe composition of dark Indonesian stone and minimal service corridors carved out of a 1936 Twenties Deco tower, one of the few examples in the neighborhood where the original structure genuinely disciplines the contemporary additions rather than serving merely as backdrop. South Beach proper offers more familiar territory for the design traveler. The EDITION, with interiors shaped through Ian Schrager's characteristic orchestration of theatrical minimalism, occupies the former Seville Hotel. The Shelborne by Proper sits in Igor Polevitzky's 1940 original. Even the W South Beach, which leans commercial in its programming, holds its own at the northern end of Collins through sheer spatial confidence. The Ritz-Carlton South Beach, meanwhile, operates out of a Morris Lapidus-era building with all the Mediterranean Revival mannerisms that implies. The mainland tends to get dismissed by travelers fixated on the beach strip, but Brickell and the Design District make genuine cases for consideration. SLS Lux Brickell and EAST Miami anchor the financial district's growing hotel corridor, the former with Philippe Starck's characteristic mix of wit and provocation, the latter with a more restrained Swire Properties approach to contemporary hospitality. The Moore Miami in the Design District is the quieter outlier — a boutique property in a neighborhood defined by Zaha Hadid's garage, flagships for Dior and Louis Vuitton, and the Pérez Art Museum just south. For a certain kind of visitor, that context is the whole point.

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Andaz Miami Beach

Miami • Miami Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $341 / night

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Andaz Miami Beach Design Editorial

The building on Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach dates to the 1940s, and in the decades since it has cycled through several hotel lives — most recently as The Confidante — before a $60 million renovation delivered it to Hyatt's Andaz brand in May 2025. EoA Group handled the design alongside Hyatt Lifestyle Group's in-house team, working with a brief that asked the building to shed its previous identities entirely: the 287-room property that emerged, with 64 suites and direct Atlantic access, is the Andaz brand's first Florida address and the first opening under Hyatt's newly formed Lifestyle Group. The renovation's central formal gesture was replacing the building's harder lines with curves — undulating balconies, flowing pool decks, a lobby whose check-in experience faces the ocean rather than the street — a logic that runs from the architecture down to the furniture selection. The pool terraces, layered across multiple levels between the towers, are where that design conviction is clearest: teak furniture, rope-woven chairs, cabanas framing the two heated pools, the whole arrangement dense with tropical planting that softens the building's mass before the eye reaches the beach beyond. Inside, the 287 rooms and suites are finished in a palette drawn from the Atlantic itself — sand-toned grasscloth, arched headboards in fluted cream upholstery, wave-patterned rugs in seafoam, full-height glazing pulling the ocean directly into the room. The dining program was handed to the José Andrés Group, whose all-day restaurant Aguasal and Bar Centro are already operating, with The Bazaar by José Andrés expected to open later in 2025 — a culinary pairing that positions the hotel as seriously on the food side as it is on the design side. What the renovation accomplished, ultimately, is a recalibration of where Mid-Beach sits in the Miami Beach hierarchy. South Beach has its Art Deco density and its decades of mythology; the Design District has its galleries and architecture. Mid-Beach had largely been the quieter middle ground, closer to the action than Bal Harbour but without South Beach's charged street life. The Andaz, beachfront and with a kitchen of genuine ambition, makes a case that the location's relative remove is a feature — enough distance from the noise, enough proximity to everything.

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Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, Autograph Collection

Miami • Miami Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $366 / night

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Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, Autograph Collection Design Editorial

Roy France designed the original building in 1940, making it one of the few surviving full-block Art Deco towers on Collins Avenue — a white-rendered stack of stepped parapets, curved bay windows, and a chrome-script canopy that announced itself with the same confidence as the automobile brand it borrowed its name from. The Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, now affiliated with Marriott's Autograph Collection, preserves that facade while the interiors have been recalibrated to speak a language closer to mid-century modernism than period restoration: navy-channeled headboards in leather set against white coffered ceilings, brass articulated wall sconces, geometric-patterned wool rugs, and a cool palette of powder blue and warm walnut that places the rooms somewhere between Palm Springs and postwar Milan rather than strictly South Beach. What the building always had — and the renovation wisely kept intact — is its relationship to the Atlantic. From above, the grounds unfold as a formal axis: an elongated arched pool giving way to a tiered promenade of clipped hedges and royal palms that descends toward the beach, the whole composition visible from the upper floors against a sweep of turquoise water. At pool level, a thatched-roof bar anchors a teak-decked terrace shaded by white canvas umbrellas, the casual furniture and weathered timber deliberately counterpointing the formal geometry above. The 350 rooms across twelve floors make this one of the larger properties on the strip, carrying the weight of its history without being overwhelmed by it.

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W South Beach

Miami • South Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $455 / night

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W South Beach Design Editorial

Positioned where Collins Avenue meets the Atlantic at the northern edge of South Beach's historic district, a fourteen-story tower designed by Arquitectonica — the Miami firm whose bold geometric massing has defined much of the city's contemporary skyline — gives the W South Beach its structural presence. Opened in 2009 and comprising 408 rooms and suites, the building's facade alternates white concrete panels with floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, the tower's angular profile catching the Atlantic light differently at each hour. Rockwell Group handled the interiors, working in a register that tempers the brand's typical high-energy palette with materials better suited to South Beach's coastal character. The guest rooms carry that restraint through consistently: herringbone white-oak floors, fluted wood headboards with warm underlighting, and rounded cylindrical nightstands give the spaces a considered residential feel that the floor-to-ceiling ocean views reward rather than compete with. A dusty-rose area rug and a velvet bergère in forest green introduce color without disrupting the calm. At the ground-floor restaurant, visible in the images, living walls of trailing greenery climb between full-height steel-framed glazing while woven rattan pendants of varying scale hang across a textured stone ceiling — an interior that navigates the difficult territory between tropical exuberance and genuine material elegance. The pool deck, bordered by a dense canopy of mature palms and furnished with striped teak loungers beneath cream canvas umbrellas, achieves a garden-like seclusion that the building's urban tower profile makes quietly surprising.

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The Shelborne By Proper

Miami • South Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $463 / night

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The Shelborne By Proper Design Editorial

Few diving boards carry landmark status, but the one at The Shelborne by Proper — a tiered white plinth rising from the pool deck like a piece of mid-century sculpture — does exactly that, and it sets the tone for everything else. The original structure was raised in 1941 by Igor Polevitzky and Thomas Triplett Russell as an Art Deco oceanfront tower on Collins Avenue, then expanded in 1958 under Morris Lapidus, the architect who gave Miami Modern its theatrical confidence. The $100 million renovation completed in 2025, with Bermello Ajamil & Partners as architect of record, preserved both layers of that history while bringing in Barcelona-based ADC Atelier — Aaron David Clarke and Marta Tuneu — to reimagine 251 rooms and all the spaces connecting them. What Clarke and Tuneu delivered feels less like a hotel renovation and more like a considered argument for a certain kind of tropical calm. The palette runs through honed Perlino marble, travertine, and pale ash wood — materials that hold the South Beach light without bouncing it back aggressively. Guest rooms carry sage-green upholstered headboards and boucle-covered window sofas positioned to frame the Atlantic as a living canvas. The lobby bar, with its double-height draped windows, brushed brass pendant lights, and deep lounge chairs in cream bouclé and woven textile, has the atmosphere of a private club that forgot to lock its doors. Outside, mint-striped chaises and a garden terrace thick with palms and sea grape complete a picture that honors the building's glamorous past without being enslaved to it.

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The Miami Beach EDITION

Miami • Miami Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $466 / night

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The Miami Beach EDITION Design Editorial

Reinventing a mid-century Miami Beach landmark without erasing it was the central challenge Ian Schrager set himself when he converted the former Seville Hotel — a 1955 Morris Lapidus-era tower on Collins Avenue — into the Miami Beach EDITION, which opened in 2014. The ten-storey white concrete facade, with its repeating gridded balcony screens and horizontal banding visible in the images, carries the clean Mediterranean modernism of its original construction, updated rather than overwritten. Schrager worked with architect John Pawson, whose minimalist sensibility shapes every public threshold, and with interior designer Roman and Williams, who calibrated the communal spaces between restraint and warmth. The 294 guest rooms carry that calibration into the private sphere — large-format white porcelain tile floors, oak-paneled headboard walls, platform beds in pale timber, and sheer linen curtains that dissolve the boundary between room and balcony. Floor-to-ceiling glazing in the bungalow-level suites frames a canopy of coconut palms as if the garden were part of the furniture arrangement. Outside, the pool terrace is planted with mature tropical specimens and climbing bougainvillea that soften the building's white geometry into something closer to a private estate than a resort. After dark, the outdoor dining terrace — cedar-slatted overhead structure hung with suspended planters and strung with filament lights — shifts the atmosphere entirely, trading the bleached daytime palette for something amber-lit and dense with foliage.

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1 Hotel South Beach

Miami • South Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $584 / night

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1 Hotel South Beach Design Editorial

Sustainability as a design language rather than a certification checklist was the central wager that developer Barry Sternlicht placed on 1 Hotel South Beach when it opened in 2015 on Collins Avenue. Working with Meyer Davis Studio on the interiors, the property set out to translate environmental commitment into tactile experience — reclaimed teak wall cladding in the guest rooms, woven rattan ceiling panels suspended above platform beds, live-edge timber consoles, and driftwood lamp bases assembled into a material vocabulary that feels genuinely foraged rather than resort-manufactured. The porte-cochère, visible in the renderings, extends this logic outward: a slatted wood pergola draped in bougainvillea creates a shaded arrival corridor where tropical planting meets pale stone paving, dissolving the boundary between interior and landscape before a guest has crossed the threshold. Across the property's 426 rooms spread over two towers, the palette holds steady — bleached timbers, grey linen, coastal photography in raw frames — shifting register between the more voluminous suites, where woven canopy ceilings arch over raised sleeping platforms, and the standard oceanfront rooms where weathered-board headboards and sea-urchin wall sculptures carry the same elemental mood at smaller scale. The rooftop pool deck, flanked by royal palms and white-canopied daybeds, gives the hotel its most iconic image, while the open-air restaurant one floor below, planted with mature ficus trees growing through the deck, demonstrates that 1 Hotel's naturalistic ambitions were built into the architecture itself rather than applied as finish.

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Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club, Surfside, Florida

Miami • Surfside • OVER THE TOP

avg. $940 / night

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Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club, Surfside, Florida Design Editorial

Richard Meier's pair of crisp white towers, completed in 2017, frame a 1930s Spanish Colonial clubhouse that Thomas Hastings built for Harvey Firestone and his circle — and it is this collision of eras, held together by a shared address on the Surfside shoreline, that gives the Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club its particular charge. The original Surf Club building, with its painted coffered ceiling, Moorish arched windows, and black-and-white marble floors, has been restored as the principal dining room and carries the weight of its history visibly: large brass lanterns cluster above Eero Saarinen Executive chairs in sage velvet, tropical palms softening the grandeur without disguising it. Meier's new towers, clad in his characteristic white aluminum and floor-to-ceiling glass, deliver 77 guest rooms and suites whose interiors, designed by Joseph Dirand, pursue a quiet Mediterranean severity — travertine floors, linen-upholstered platforms, oak millwork with geometric relief carving, and deep-set balconies framing the Atlantic in an uninterrupted rectangle of turquoise. A second room typology, cooler and more linear, wraps walls in ribbed white paneling and grounds the palette with moss-green bench ends and raw oak furniture. At pool level, teak-framed sun loungers line a still reflecting pool backed by mature royal palms, the composition disciplined enough to feel more Côte d'Azur than Miami — which was, almost certainly, the intention.

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The Standard Spa, Miami Beach

Miami • Miami Beach • OPTIMIZE

avg. $209 / night

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The Standard Spa, Miami Beach Design Editorial

Sited on the Venetian Causeway side of Miami Beach rather than the ocean front, the former Lido Spa Hotel — a low-slung mid-century complex built in 1954 and later transformed into The Standard Spa Miami Beach by Shawn Hausman Design in 2005 — turns its back on South Beach's louder ambitions and faces Biscayne Bay instead. That inversion is the property's defining gesture: an infinity pool dissolving toward open water, weathered timber docks extending over the bay, and yellow-accented loungers arranged along the waterline in a composition closer to a private sailing club than a boutique hotel. The aerial view confirms the intimacy of the site, a green-edged peninsula where royal palms and dense tropical hedging absorb the low-rise bungalow structures into the landscape. Hausman's interiors carry the same unhurried logic. Guest rooms are finished in light-toned hardwood floors, exposed painted ceiling beams, and teak-slatted venetian blinds that filter the subtropical light into warm horizontal bands. Striped canvas drapery used as headboard surrounds, rush-seated wooden benches at the foot of beds, and woven cotton rugs in indigo and teal give the spaces the temperature of a well-edited beach cottage rather than a designed hotel room. At the waterfront bar, white-framed rattan stools line a Carrara marble counter beneath a slatted timber ceiling, the yellow-painted steel canopy overhead pulling the bay's colour palette back into the architecture with cheerful precision.

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EAST Miami

Miami • Brickell • SPLURGE

avg. $297 / night

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EAST Miami Design Editorial

Embedded within Brickell City Centre — the $1.05 billion mixed-use development that Arquitectonica master-planned for Swire Properties across nine acres of Miami's financial district — EAST Miami sits inside a 39-storey tower that opened in 2016, giving Swire's lifestyle hotel brand its first North American address. The brief demanded that a hotel function credibly within a structure shared with residences, retail, and office floors, and the interior design team at Rockwell Group answered by calibrating each zone to a different register: guest rooms kept deliberately spare, the rooftop charged with atmosphere. The 352 rooms take their cues from the tower's curtain-wall logic — floor-to-ceiling glazing frames unobstructed views over Biscayne Bay and the downtown skyline, with wood-effect porcelain tile flooring, walnut-veneer headboard panels, and large-format photographic murals of open water providing warmth against the cool grey palette. The sculptural bronze-finished pendant lights visible throughout the rooms recur as a consistent design thread. Above it all, the Sugar rooftop bar pivots toward something far more seductive: darkened timber beam ceilings, a long black bar fronted with laser-cut metalwork screens in a geometric floral pattern, copper bucket pendants, and lounge seating in cognac leather and burnt orange velvet arranged against city-light panoramas. The pool terrace below, shaded by palm canopies and a tensile white canopy structure, punctuates the Brickell streetscape with an unexpected patch of tropical leisure inside an otherwise relentlessly vertical neighborhood.

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Hotel Greystone

Miami • Miami Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $316 / night

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Hotel Greystone Design Editorial

Henry Hohauser designed the building at 1920 Collins Avenue in 1939, at the height of the South Beach Art Deco construction boom that would eventually give Miami Beach its most recognizable architectural identity. The curved corner facade, vertical sign tower with its stacked block lettering, and horizontal banding of the parapet remain among the more legible examples of Streamline Moderne on Collins — a style that borrowed from ocean liner design the same optimism about speed and modernity that South Florida was selling to the American tourist imagination. Hotel Greystone's recent renovation treated this heritage with a light hand: the white stucco exterior and rooftop palms visible above the parapet are as much a piece of the MiAMo District streetscape as they have ever been, and the rooftop pool deck, furnished with white loungers and teal umbrellas, positions the building's crown as a functional amenity rather than an architectural afterthought. Inside, the interiors abandon the period pastiche that has plagued many SoBe restorations and instead pivot toward a contemporary Mediterranean warmth. Guest rooms carry bleached oak headboards, woven rattan pendants, Hans Wegner Wishbone chairs paired with black bistro tables, jute rugs, and warm sand-toned plaster walls — a palette closer to the Balearics than to Deco-era Miami. The restaurant continues the same material logic: oversized woven pendant fixtures suspended above walnut tables and grey banquettes, tropical plantings softening the structural columns, the whole room operating with a confidence that lets the building's bones do the historic work.

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Kimpton EPIC Hotel

Miami • Downtown Miami • SPLURGE

avg. $326 / night

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Kimpton EPIC Hotel Design Editorial

Where the Miami River empties into Biscayne Bay, at the edge of a downtown that spent years trying to prove it was more than a business district, a curved glass tower designed by Arquitectonica opened in 2008 as one of the more convincing arguments that Brickell had arrived. The Kimpton EPIC Hotel fills 54 floors of that tower — its sweeping facade visible from the MacArthur Causeway — with 411 rooms and suites that lean into the building's geometry rather than fighting it. Corner suites at upper floors wrap floor-to-ceiling glass around two city-facing walls, the curved curtain wall turning the Miami River and Biscayne Bay into a continuous panorama from walnut-framed beds and low-slung lounge chairs in cognac leather. The interiors pursue a coastal-contemporary register: pale stone floors, upholstered headboards in dove grey linen, teal accents that pick up the color of the pool deck below. That deck operates across two levels — a ground-floor pool sheltered by the tower's curving white balconies, furnished with oversized woven pod chairs, and an upper terrace bar surfaced in richly veined marble with wicker seating shaded by standard-trained ficus trees. The rooftop perspective, visible in the images, frames Brickell's residential towers in every direction — a skyline that barely existed when Arquitectonica first broke ground, and that now makes the EPIC's position at the waterfront edge feel less like coincidence than foresight.

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SLS LUX Brickell

Miami • Brickell • SPLURGE

avg. $361 / night

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SLS LUX Brickell Design Editorial

That multicolored facade — hundreds of horizontal glass fins stacked in a chromatic sequence from deep violet to acid yellow — is the first thing Brickell registers about this building, and it functions less as architectural ornament than as a billboard for the SLS brand's appetite for spectacle. Arquitectonica designed the 57-story tower that houses SLS LUX Brickell, which opened in 2017 as part of the broader Brickell City Centre development, with the hotel component filling the lower floors of a mixed-use structure combining residences, retail, and hospitality in a single glass-and-concrete shaft rising above the Miami River financial district. Inside, the lobby signals a different kind of ambition — Yabu Pushelberg's interiors working a vein of mid-century glamour filtered through contemporary Miami exuberance. Black-and-white harlequin tile floors anchor the ground floor lounge, where curved yellow banquettes and brass pendant chandeliers cascade from double-height ceilings above dark marble bar surfaces. The guest rooms pull back considerably from that intensity: pale oak millwork, blush upholstered benches, marble-topped oval tables, and geometric-patterned carpets establish a palette of warm neutrals punctuated by the same acid yellow that runs through the public spaces as a thread. The pool deck, framed by corten steel arches and ranks of royal palms against the Brickell skyline, offers the hotel's most confident spatial gesture — a composed travertine terrace that achieves genuine calm despite the density pressing in from every direction.

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The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach

Miami • South Beach • SPLURGE

avg. $395 / night

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The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach Design Editorial

Morris Lapidus drew the DiLido Hotel in 1953 as a manifesto in white concrete — curving parapets, horizontal banding, and that particular MiMo swagger that made Collins Avenue feel like the future. When The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach emerged from a $200 million redevelopment in December 2003, a three-floor addition brought the tower to eleven stories, but the bones remained unmistakably Lapidus: the signature bubble wall, the black-and-white terrazzo floors, the sense that glamour should announce itself from across the room. A further $90 million renovation completed in 2020 refined rather than erased, with Meg Sharpe handling the public spaces and Cristian Rubio of Hirsch Bedner Associates reimagining the 376 guestrooms. Those rooms now carry a palette that suits the light pouring off the Atlantic — pale oak floors, cream channeled headboards against white paneled walls with restrained Art Deco relief work, and deep navy velvet seating punctuated by amber-gold bolsters and ochre lacquered room dividers. The suites gain circular plaster ceiling recesses and wraparound glass that frames the South Beach skyline like a wide-angle postcard. Outside, a cross-shaped pool sits between low white wings of cabana-style accommodation, with the beach and that particular shade of Caribbean turquoise visible just beyond the palms. The restaurant terrace, draped in cascading tropical greenery over teak slatted ceilings and encaustic-tiled floors, manages to feel like a garden that wandered in from somewhere slightly wilder than Miami.

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The Moore Miami

Miami • Design District • SPLURGE

avg. $503 / night

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The Moore Miami Design Editorial

Zaha Hadid's sinuous white sculpture 'Elastika' was already hanging in the Moore Building's atrium when most people arrived to see art fairs. The Hotel at The Moore, which opened in 2024, has simply made the sensible decision to let guests sleep inside the same building. Originally constructed in the 1920s as a furniture warehouse — the ghost lettering on the facade still legible from the street — the four-story, 90,000-square-foot structure was designed by David P. Davis in a Mediterranean Revival commercial style, its arched brickwork and corner articulation giving it the bearing of something more civic than industrial. Studio Collective, working in collaboration with ICRAVE, claimed the entire fourth floor for 13 residential-scale suites, each running between 700 and 1,000 square feet. The interiors feel calibrated to hold their own against Hadid's presence below without competing with it. Rooms are finished in warm Venetian plaster, with chunky ribbed wooden bed platforms set on pale oak floors, hand-tufted rugs in earthy florals, and sculptural dressers in cream lacquer with brass hardware that carry a certain 1970s Italian amplitude. Bathrooms glimpsed through open doorways reveal freestanding soaking tubs against travertine-clad walls. The bar on the same level runs a long polished slab of grey-veined marble across fluted walnut millwork, lit from below and strung with globe pendants on brass armatures. The effect, throughout, is of a private apartment installed inside a piece of Miami cultural infrastructure.

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Four Seasons Hotel Miami

Miami • Brickell • SPLURGE

avg. $619 / night

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Four Seasons Hotel Miami Design Editorial

At 70 floors, the glass tower rising above Brickell Avenue was, at its 2003 completion, the tallest building in Florida — a distinction that gave the Four Seasons Hotel Miami an unusual brief: to make intimate hospitality legible within a structure whose primary identity is sheer vertical ambition. Arquitectonica, the Miami firm that has shaped much of the city's skyline, designed the mixed-use tower in collaboration with the hotel, which fills the lower floors while residences and office space claim the upper reaches. The curtain wall of reflective glass, visible in the images angled against a blue subtropical sky, carries the building's mass with the clean linearity typical of Arquitectonica's commercial work. The interiors, refreshed in recent years, pursue a warmth that counterbalances the tower's corporate scale. Guest rooms show a palette of cream, amber, and walnut — arched, ribbed headboards in ticking-stripe fabric mounted in bronze frames, saffron-toned custom rugs with abstracted botanical motifs, and branch-form floor lamps that bring an almost residential quietness to rooms with panoramic views over Biscayne Bay. The restaurant presents a different register entirely: fluted wall panels, arched mirror surrounds, herringbone hardwood floors, and moss-green velvet club chairs arranged around dark timber tables beneath cluster pendant lights. Below, a broad pool terrace lined with royal palms and white canvas umbrellas offers the one space where the tower's height recedes entirely and Miami's tropical light takes over.

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The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami

Miami • Bal Harbour • OVER THE TOP

avg. $716 / night

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The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami Design Editorial

At the northern tip of Miami Beach where the barrier island narrows to a sliver between the Atlantic and Biscayne Bay, few sites in South Florida carry the geographic drama that the Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour was built to exploit. The twin-tower form designed by Arquitectonica — the Miami firm whose boldly geometric work reshaped the city's skyline through the 1980s and beyond — rises some 27 floors above a landscaped podium, orienting its floor-to-ceiling curtain-wall glazing toward both ocean and bay simultaneously. From the upper suites, visible in the images here, the city of Miami dissolves into the middle distance across open water, the Intracoastal threading between islands below a wide subtropical sky. The 124 rooms and suites were finished with a palette that leans into understated residential warmth rather than the louder gestures of South Beach: dark Santos mahogany flooring in the upper-category rooms, grid-tufted upholstered headboards in greige wool, lacquered red accent case goods, and gilt brass wall-mounted sculptural medallions that give the standard rooms a collected rather than installed quality. At pool level, a freeform basin edged in cobalt blue tile curves through a dense planting of mature royal palms, the geometry softened further by woven rattan daybeds with terracotta and teal cushions. The bar and restaurant interiors deploy wide-plank oak flooring, cage-form pendant fixtures, and sheer linen curtains that dissolve the boundary between the Atlantic-facing terrace and the interior dining room.

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Faena Hotel Miami Beach

Miami • Miami Beach • OVER THE TOP

avg. $803 / night

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Faena Hotel Miami Beach Design Editorial

When Alan Faena and Len Blavatnik set out to transform a mid-century tower on Collins Avenue into something wholly singular, they handed the architectural commission to Rem Koolhaas and OMA, then gave the interiors to Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin — a pairing that says everything about the register the Faena Hotel Miami Beach was always going to strike. The building itself, a thirteen-floor slab whose facade Koolhaas articulated with patinated turquoise tile panels and white stucco horizontals, carries the memory of 1950s Miami Modern without reproducing it, the massing more knowing than nostalgic. Inside, Luhrmann and Martin's vision runs at full theatrical pitch: crimson velvet sofas with bullion fringe, leopard-print banquettes anchoring the Pao restaurant beneath a tiered brass-and-crystal chandelier of considerable scale, hand-tufted turquoise rugs patterned with coral and geometric motifs, red ikat drapery pulling the Atlantic into the frame of every ocean-facing room. The palette — scarlet, teal, burnished gold, walnut — holds together across the hotel's 169 rooms through an internal logic closer to costume design than conventional hospitality interiors. At the pool, red-and-white striped parasols march toward the beach in a geometry that is equal parts Lido and fever dream, the whole composition confirming that Faena's most enduring achievement was making maximalism feel inevitable rather than arbitrary.

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The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort

Miami • Bal Harbour • OVER THE TOP

avg. $949 / night

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The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort Design Editorial

Designed by Arquitectonica — the Miami firm that has shaped the city's skyline since the 1980s — and opened in 2012, the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort rises twenty-seven floors above one of South Florida's most quietly patrician stretches of coastline, its tripartite tower massing stepping back from the beach in a geometry that distinguishes it from the more muscular resort slabs flanking it to the north and south. The facade's green-tinted glazing and white concrete fins give the building a cooler register than its neighbors, calibrated to the measured pace of Bal Harbour rather than the exhibitionism of Miami Beach proper. At ground level, a deep planting buffer of coconut palms softens the tower's considerable scale before giving way to a travertine pool terrace lined with cobalt-blue chaises, the Atlantic visible through the palms beyond. Inside, the interiors carry the atmosphere of a well-appointed private residence rather than a resort lobby. Guest rooms — there are 243 across the tower — are finished in pale oak millwork with mosaic-tiled metallic headboards that shift between bronze and champagne depending on the light, the palette of blush, taupe, and aubergine grounding the ocean views rather than competing with them. The ground-floor restaurant pavilion, encased in a steel-and-glass conservatory structure, pairs a black-and-white geometric floor with teal velvet tulip chairs and rose onyx-topped tables, the whole room oriented to catch the West-facing sunset through its full-height glazing.

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Mayfair House Hotel & Garden

Miami • Coconut Grove • OPTIMIZE

avg. $211 / night

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Mayfair House Hotel & Garden Design Editorial

Kenneth Treister's organic concrete facade on Mary Street in Coconut Grove is one of Miami's genuinely singular pieces of architecture — a sculptural eruption of foliated metalwork panels, biomorphic white plasterwork, and crowning finials that place the building somewhere between Art Nouveau fantasy and subtropical fever dream. Completed in 1977 and recently reborn as Mayfair House Hotel & Garden, the five-storey structure was conceived as an open-air atrium shopping and hotel complex, its exterior relief panels cast with tropical botanical motifs that now carry the patina of nearly five decades of Florida weather. The interiors, reimagined by Dakota Development and designer Nicole Hollis, follow the building's exuberant logic without mimicking it. Guest rooms arrive in deep forest greens and warm terracottas, polished concrete floors grounding a loose assembly of curved burl-wood room dividers, arched upholstered headboards in banana-leaf print fabrics, fringed ottomans, and freestanding clawfoot tubs painted to match the walls — the atmosphere closer to a well-traveled collector's apartment than anything conventionally hotelier. The rooftop pool deck, lined with green-and-white striped parasols and mosaic tile pool surrounds, anchors the property's social life above the Grove's canopy, a hand-painted floral mural marking one end of the water in the exuberant register the whole building sets from street level.

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Mr. C Miami - Coconut Grove

Miami • Coconut Grove • OPTIMIZE

avg. $280 / night

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Mr. C Miami - Coconut Grove Design Editorial

The Cipriani family's decision to plant their first American hotel venture in Coconut Grove rather than South Beach said something deliberate about their intentions. Mr. C Miami, which opened in 2017, carries the DNA of Venice's Hotel Cipriani into a six-floor building designed by Arquitectonica — the Miami firm founded by Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear — whose facade announces itself with a grid of circular porthole windows punched through a smooth white volume raised on tapered piloti, a compositional move that simultaneously nods to nautical modernism and the mid-century optimism of Coconut Grove's own architectural history. A warm cedar-clad penthouse level crowns the structure, glowing amber at dusk against the deep Florida sky. Inside, the interiors sustain the Cipriani tone with precision: guestrooms wrapped in teal and Aegean blue, channel-tufted headboards with brass sconce detailing, botanical-print carpets in cobalt, and walnut writing desks paired with caned occasional chairs — a palette that evokes the Adriatic without reproducing it literally. The rooftop pool deck, oriented toward Biscayne Bay, frames an unobstructed horizon under a field of cobalt umbrellas, the water's surface catching both sky and skyline. The restaurant, Bellini, carries the lineage of Harry's Bar in its bleached oak paneling, marble bar counter, powder-blue armchairs, and brass pendant lighting — restrained, confident, and entirely consistent with a family that has been in the hospitality business since 1931.

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The Setai Miami Beach

Miami • Miami Beach • OVER THE TOP

avg. $791 / night

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The Setai Miami Beach Design Editorial

Two buildings sharing a single address tell the whole story of The Setai Miami Beach: a nine-story Art Deco tower dating to 1936, designed by Henry Hohauser and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, fused with a 40-story contemporary glass tower that rises sharply behind it. The pairing could easily have felt discordant, but the design team — led by Denniston International, the Kuala Lumpur-based studio behind many of Asia's most refined luxury hotels — used the tension productively, threading an Asian aesthetic through both structures with such consistency that the two read as a coherent whole. Denniston's interiors draw heavily on Cambodian and Indonesian material culture: sandstone sculptures stand among the reflecting pools and royal palms of the outdoor courtyard, teak pergolas filter the evening light above wicker dining chairs, and the atmosphere at dusk carries more of Bali than South Beach. Guest rooms in the tower are finished in dark-stained wood, zebrawood flooring, and ebonized four-poster beds set against floor-to-ceiling glass that frames sweeping views across the Art Deco district and Biscayne Bay. The pool terrace — three temperature-graded pools aligned along a formal axis, bordered by clipped hedges and teak loungers — brings a precision to outdoor living that most Miami Beach properties never quite achieve. The Setai's 130 suites occupy some of the highest floors in the tower, where the horizon unspools in every direction.

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The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami

Miami • Key Biscayne • OVER THE TOP

avg. $854 / night

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The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami Design Editorial

Separated from Miami's mainland by the Rickenbacker Causeway, Key Biscayne has always maintained a deliberate distance from the city's architectural theatrics — and the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami, which opened in 2001, was designed to honour that quieter register. The property's warm ochre towers, stepping back from a generous palm-lined forecourt toward the Atlantic, draw on Florida's Mediterranean Revival tradition rather than reaching for South Beach provocation. Hipped rooflines, arched window surrounds, and wrought-iron balcony railings give the 402-room resort a massing that feels closer to a grand Coral Gables villa than a conventional convention-scale hotel, even at twelve storeys. A recent renovation has sharpened the interiors considerably. Guest rooms now carry a bleached-oak palette — low-profile platform beds with woven linen headboards, shell-form brass wall sconces, oversized ceiling fans that anchor the tropical register without becoming kitsch — the whole effect hovering between coastal Florida and a carefully edited Caribbean plantation house. The contrast arrives in the bar, where deep cobalt lacquered walls, a fluted brass bar front faced in dark marble, and a backlit botanical-print tile backdrop create something closer to a 1940s Havana supper club than anything the sunlit rooms above would suggest. Outside, a freeform pool curves through a dense corridor of royal palms toward the beach, the thatched palapa bar marking the point where the landscaping gives way entirely to sand.

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Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Beach

Miami • Sunny Isles Beach • OVER THE TOP

avg. $859 / night

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Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Beach Design Editorial

Forty-five floors of cream and gold rising directly from Sunny Isles Beach — the tower that houses Acqualina Resort & Residences presents a classicizing face to the Atlantic, its stacked balconies and arched entrance pavilion drawing more from Mediterranean resort architecture than from the glass-and-steel minimalism that dominates Miami's skyline further south. Completed in 2006, the development was designed to function simultaneously as a luxury hotel and a private residential condominium, a hybrid model that gives the property an unusually domestic quality at upper levels while the lower floors maintain full resort programming across roughly 400 feet of beachfront. The interiors carry that residential register convincingly. Guest rooms are finished in a palette of warm white, taupe, and macassar ebony — paneled walls painted in high-gloss white, tray ceilings with classical cornice moldings, beds framed in dark-stained wood with striped upholstered headboards, and nightstands in figured veneer that have the weight of furniture rather than hotel casework. Monogrammed linens and brass-lattice occasional tables visible in the images push the rooms closer to a Palm Beach estate than a conventional tower hotel. Outside, the pool terrace is arranged with the confident geometry of an Italian villa garden — a rectangular lap pool flanked by symmetrical rows of crimson-cushioned loungers and mature royal palms — the signature red carrying through to the beach umbrellas and the open-air dining terrace beyond, where white market umbrellas and cross-back chairs set against the water give the whole ground plane a festive, Mediterranean coherence.