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HE FONTAINEBLEAU HILTON RESOR.,
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arguably Collins Avenue's most conspicuous
landmark, celebrates its semi-centennial this
December, more spirited grande dame than
stodgy dowager.
`\ Its antecedent- one of several estates arrayed along a
three-mile stretch then known as"Millionaire's Row,"was
i'S‘\, `� the 15-bedroom mansion sold by Harvey Firestone's heirs
1. S `\ for $2.3 million in 1952 to Ben Novack. Morris Lapidus,
�`` who had yet to design an entire hotel,was commissioned
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to France's Chateau Fontainebleau.
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Most conventional hotel architecture at that Flash forward, long after the notorious "spite
time either emulated Europe's classical style wall" Novack erected to effectively eclipsethe
or reiterated post-war America's popular Eden Roc pool, to 1978: The 20-acre prop-
box-like constructions. Lapidus took a totally erty,facing bankruptcy,was purchased by Ste- ow
original tack however, conceiving a sweep- phen Muss who immediately asked Hilton to IT
ing, crescent-shaped structure with half-cir- manage an iconic Fontainebleau which would
cular contours, curved stairways and round come to epitomize Miami Beach's attraction
columns,its arrant curvature eliminating what as a world-class,sun-and fun destination. ^=` • . Y. Air:-
he deemed "the drudgery" of tiresome(and =:•"-R . . _
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tiring) long corridors. More than $80 million was invested in reno-
vations
eno vations during the '80s-refurbishing its 920
Completed in a single year, the Fontaineb- guestrooms, refining dining and entertain
leau astonished the architectural elite...Its ment resources, expanding convention cen-
interior decor - grandeur pushed to the ter facilities, adding a spa and creating that
brink of excess! - was no less audacious: a spectacular rock grotto swimming pool.More `=
palette of more than two dozen colors;walls recently another $65 million was spent to
and ceilings pierced with "cheeseholes" refresh virtually every precinct, including its
and "woggles"; and a celebrated "staircase public spaces, ten restaurants and lounges,
to nowhere" that in fact led to a cloakroom fitness center, shopping arcade and meeting
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where ladies could stash their stoles and spaces, while introducing new features like 4 .. .
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descend in all their '50s finery to the admir- the fashionable Bleau View dining room and "Ior' w
ing gaze of expectant escorts in the lobby the fanciful Octopus-themed water park. -
below, its marble floor in-laid with Lapidus' -
signature "bow ties." An even more prodigious enterprise - its
completion purposely projected to coincide
"The critics hated my work but the people with the hotel's upcoming 50th anniversary
loved it," said the architect who delighted in - involves Fontainebleau II, the 36-story
having outlived his detractors while accumu- oceanfront condo/hotel currently under con-
lating numerous late-in-life honors. Lapidus struction at the south end of the property,
died at the age of 98 in 2001,having designed a S230-million joint venture with Turnberry
1200 buildings, including 250 hotels. Associates. Its spectacular new entranceway _ =
will also spiral up to the main building from c
Collins Avenue to provide a panoramic van •
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tage of those celebrated, subtropical Fon- .
tainebleau gardens and pools, as well as the
ocean beyond.
Lapidus' once-controversial creation is simi-
larly being restored to some extent,as carpet P
encircling a rehabilitated Garden Lobby Bar ` f
is removed to reveal those long concealed
"bow ties,"while the escalator he considered • -
11 invasive, installed to access the underground
arcade,will likewise be eliminated...felic •A" � Irl ...
reversions for the inimitable Fontain_;'
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