Few American resort hotels carry a founding myth quite like this one. When the original property opened in 1983, it was only the second Ritz-Carlton resort ever built — a statement of ambition on Florida's Gulf Coast that set a template for grand beachfront hospitality. Four decades on, The Ritz-Carlton, Naples has emerged from a $100 million renovation with something genuinely new attached to its Italianate bones: a 14-story, 74-key Vanderbilt Tower designed by Cooper Carry to LEED Silver certification, its curves and glass in quiet conversation with the warm sand-toned facades and arched detailing of the original structure rising behind the freeform pool deck. Parker Torres Design handled all 474 guestrooms and suites, threading gold-framed upholstered headboards, faceted textile panels, and brass pendant lighting through interiors that stay anchored in a soft palette of oyster, warm grey, and champagne — colors that borrow from the beach without mimicking it too literally. The occasional coral accent pillow introduces just enough tension. Elsewhere, the restaurant interiors work a more confident register: hand-set mosaic floors in cream, red, and sage, exposed wood ceiling beams, fluted columns in blonde oak, and an open-fire pizza oven lending the kind of material warmth that feels entirely right steps from the Gulf. The thatched Samba Bar at the dunes edge completes the transition from architecture to landscape, where polished design eventually gives way to salt air and sand.

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