perez + starck = the making of an icon

Imagining an ICON . .

Join Jorge Perez with Philippe Starck and sparks will fly. There are places that transcend. Places that transform. Places that by their sheer innovation and artistry, transport you to a higher reality. Rarely are those places condominiums. Condominiums are typically places to hang your hat. But when a man with a vision meets a man with a muse, you don't just get a condominium. You get a place that rouses the spirit, quickens the pulse and ignites the imagination.

 

 

 

JORGE M. PEREZ - Founder, Chairman & CEO
The Related Group of Florida

 

With over $2.1 billion in gross annual revenues reported last year, The Related Group of Florida's portfolio includes more than 50,000 residential units built, owned and/or managed since the company's inception in 1979. This represents more than $7 billion of real estate development, making The Related Group the largest developer of multi-family real estate in Florida and the second largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States. Related is well-recognized for the development of luxury high-rises, which include: The Mark on Brickell, Portofino Tower, The Yacht Club at Portofino, Murano at Portofino and Murano Grande, Ocean I, Ocean II, Ocean III and Ocean IV in Sunny Isles Beach; 2080 Ocean Drive in Hallandale Beach, and CityPlace in West Palm Beach. Major projects include One Miami, The Loft Downtown and The Loft II in Downtown Miami, Icon, Las Olas Beach Club in Ft. Lauderdale, The Beach Club in Hallandale beach, AquAzul in Lauderdale-By-The Sea, Boca Grand in Boca Raton, Marina Village in Boynton Beach, The Moorings in Lantana, The Slade, The Tower Condominium at CityPlace and Villa Lofts in West Palm Beach and The Venture and Aventura Marina in Aventura.

 

 

 

PHILIPPE STARCK - Designer
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Starck recalls spending his childhood underneath his father's drawing boards, hours spent sawing, cutting, gluing, sanding, dismantling bikes, motor cycles and other objects. Endless hours, a whole lifetime spent taking apart and putting back together whatever comes to hand, remaking the world around him. Several years and several prototypes later, the Italians have made him responsible for our furniture, President Mitterand asked him to change life at the Elysees Palace, the Cafe Costes has become Le Cafe. He has turned the Royalton and Paramount in New York into the new classics of the hotel world and scattered Japan with architectural tours de force that have made him the leading exponent of expressionist architecture. Crazy, warm, yet terribly lucid, he draws without respite, out of necessity, driven by a sense of urgency, for himself and for others. He touches us through his work, which is fine and intelligent indeed, but most of all touches us because he puts his heart into that work, creating objects that are good even before they are beautiful.

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