Name: Eden Roc Hotel
Client: Harry Mufson
Address: 4525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach FL
Architect: Morris Lapidus
Style: Miami Modern Architecture
Description: After the completion of the Fontainebleau Mufson, wanting to build his own hotel purchased the Warner Estate property just north of the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach. Mufson hired Lapidus to design his new hotel to be named the Eden Roc, after the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes France, a well known destination of the Kennedy family, glamour by association. The Eden Roc Miami was completed in 1956, designed in the Miami Modern style popular of the time and that Lapidus was known for. Rather than having the sweeping curves that were increasingly in vogue, the Eden Roc had a more traditional “tower” crowned by a large fin that bares the hotels name.
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The Fontainebleau, Miami Beach
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