“One of a kind” is a term that gets bandied about a lot, but the late Broadway producer Luigi Caiola’s condo in Miami Beach truly lives up to the too-often hyperbolic term.
Records show Caiola and his partner Sean McGill acquired two high-floor units in one of the towers at the Continuum South Beach, the first in 2009 for $1.85 million and a neighboring unit for $3.6 million in 2018. Designer Joe Nahem of the esteemed firm Fox-Nahem was then brought in to merge the two spaces into one wildly creative space that vibrates with color, pattern, and texture.
A real estate developer and New York property magnate, Caiola co-founded Caiola Productions with his sister Rose, and together they developed more than 50 Broadway productions, earning eight Tony Awards for works including Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and The Inheritance. Now, nearly two years after he died, the late producer’s singular, ocean-view aerie in South Florida has been put on the market for $19.39 million. Bill Hernandez and Bryan Sereny at Douglas Elliman hold the listing.
Structural columns are wrapped in chrome or embellished with mosaic tiles.
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Known for his attention to detail and curatorial prowess, Nahem enlisted an army of artists and craftspeople to infuse every corner of the 3,700-square-foot space with creative flair. The visual spectacle begins at the entrance, where Studio Hoon Kim designed a molded resin tunnel splashed with camouflage-like splotches of color that connects the foyer and the 50-foot-long living/dining room. Tactile fabrics and organic shapes and materials effectively ground the vast living and dining room, which feels like it’s floating on the Atlantic Ocean thanks to vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling windows.
In the dining area, hand-carved wooden panels by Tennessee-based artisan Caleb Woodard depict abstract botanical forms that slither up onto the ceiling, and the trapezoidal kitchen sits on the interior of the apartment without any windows, so operable vertical louvers were installed to either conceal or expose the playfully outré kitchen, with its sea-anemone-inspired chandelier by Pia Maria Raeder and wooden cabinets embellished with huge pastel-colored aluminum pulls.
The botanical-themed wood screen was carved by Tennessee-based artisan Caleb Woodard.
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A niche off the living area holds a dry bar backed by brick-shaped tiles in iridescent jewel tones, while the powder room is an ethereal space that evokes being under the water with a shell-encrusted vanity and walls covered in shimmering mother-of-pearl tiles.
There are a total of four bedrooms (plus a den illuminated with a skylight-like installation created by Nathan Orsman) and five and a half bathrooms, each with a bold, unique style and innovative tile scheme. One guest bedroom is decked out with a deep gemstone-colored ceiling, while the primary bedroom goes for extra cozy with a coral reef–inspired headboard and custom rug by Portuguese ecological textile artist Vanessa Barragão and Mondrian-esque stained glass walls that enclose the bathroom.
Textile artist Vanessa Barragão introduced a neutral-hued coral reef motif in the main bedroom.
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Included in the sale are a separate guest or staff suite and two assigned parking spots in the on-site garage. The 26th-floor condo has monthly common charges of just over $9,000 a month (with another $135,000-plus in annual tax), for which the Continuum, at the southern tip of South Beach, provides 24-hour security, an attended lobby, two swimming pools, a fitness center, a children’s play area, three clay tennis courts, and an outdoor restaurant.
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Source: Luxury - robbreport.com
