The Eden Roc Miami Beach Resort is a resort hotel on 4525 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida. The building contains Nobu Hotel Miami Beach . It was designed by Morris Lapidus in Modern Miami style, and finished in 1955-56. Renovated in 2008, the hotel has 631 guest rooms, including 96 suites. It was built on the Warner Estate site following litigation over development rights to the site and to the neighboring Firestone Estate, which became Fontainebleau Hotel.
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Design
Morris Lapidus designed Eden Roc for a site immediately north of the Miami Beach Fontainebleau hotel built in 1954. The hotel is designed for Harry Mufson, who is a former partner of Fontainebleau, Ben Novack, who had previously been together before. creating another Miami Beach landmark hotel (a design not commissioned by Lapidus, a completed grant) located about half a mile to the south, Sans Souci (which opened in 1949). The previous Eden Roc site is Warner Estate, owned by Albert Warner of Warner Brothers. Mufson told Lapidus, "I do not want any French stuff you use at Fontainebleau, that's for kids." Novack was furious both at Lapidus and Mufson for building Eden Roc, then considered one of the most elegant and luxurious hotels of his time, and retaliated in 1961 by building the 14th floor of the Empty Tower as a "wall of revenge" in the Fontainebleau property to overshadow the Eden pool Roc. All the rooms face south, and the side facing Eden Roc consists of an unpainted and unsightly "eye sore", where a single window, oceanside penthouse on the north side, belongs to Novack, which he created for the purpose of "keeping watch over" Harry and his guest at Eden Roc. Mufson sued Novack in what would become one of the fiercest personal architectural law battles in the history of Miami Beach.
In Eden Roc, Lapidus avoids the curves of Fontainebleau, instead choosing a more formal composition reminiscent of earlier Miami Beach hotels. The hotel is overcome by a large enclosure with hotel signs. An annex on the south side of Eden Roc property was built to cover the lingering walls and newly constructed ponds in shady locations.
The hotel is named after the Eden Roc pavilion at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. The hotel is housed in Cafe Pompei, a dinner club offering entertainment with dinner. The Mona Lisa Room is a familiar formal dining room, and Harry's American Bar is a hotel nightclub (not named after the hotel owner, Harry Mufson, but a famous bar - considered by many institutions - in Venice, Italy, and the name Morris Lapidus borrows for the club night storied inside Eden Roc).
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Recent history
The hotel was refurbished in 1997 by architect Spillis Candela and Partners, and expanded in 2006. Marriott International began operating the hotel in 2005 under Renaissance Hotels & Brand Resorts as Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach , under a fifty-year contract. However, due to disagreements between Marriott and the owner, which resulted in many lawsuits, the hotel left Marriott on July 11, 2013.
In 2016, some hotels, including 203 guest rooms and hotel bars and restaurants, are converted to Nobu Hotel Miami Beach , "hotel-in-a-hotel". Eden Roc now has 418 rooms remaining.
Popular culture
Steely Dan's band mentions the "tower room of Eden Roc" as a symbol of luxury in his song "Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)," on Can not Buy a Thrill (1972).
Eden Roc is also featured in the back episode of I Love Lucy, titled "Deep Sea Fishing" and "Desert Island" in 1956.
References
External links
- Eden Roc Miami Beach's official website
- Nobu Hotel Miami Beach's official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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