This Miami Beach apartment, with 4,000 square feet of space, was designed by Fox-Nahem's AD100 designer Joe Nahem.Thanks to a dramatic 18-foot entrance and nearly 50-foot-long great room, Nahem had his work cut out for him.
The elevator doors open to a moody, windowless Miami Beach foyer of grooved graphite cement wall panels and a chunky pair of circa 1970s Erik Höglund mirrors above a signed Wendell Castle cabinet.In the dark, a tunnel polka-dotted with cobalt and blush resin splotches appears like a mirage, a trippy promise of something epic on the other end.
There’s an easy flow from room to room, but each one has a distinctive personality.To fulfill his Alice in Wonderland–esque vision for the dining room, for example, Nahem tapped Tennessee-based woodworking maestro Caleb Woodard to intricately carve every centimeter of a larger-than-life botanical wall that crawls up the ceiling, eliminating any need for a chandelier over the simple resin table and mix of floral Louis Vuitton and wooden Ruemmler chairs.Elsewhere, he got experimental with artist Elyse Graham on a bathroom encased in her exuberant graphic resin work.
- Interiors: Joe Nahem
- Photos: Douglas Friedman