Haute Residence hosted "The Art of Living with Missoni Baia," a real estate webinar with the leaders behind the waterfront luxury condominium in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood, located just minutes from the bustling of Downtown and Brickell. The building is the legendary Italian fashion house's first-ever branded residential development. Once completed, Missoni Baia will house 249 residences on its 57 floors.
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The essence of creativity of Missoni, the legendary Italian fashion house, permeates through the building, slated for completion in 2022. Located on Miami's waterfront East Edgewater, Missoni Baia silhouette welcomes admiring eyes to its 57 floors and 249 residences. It is the brand’s first-ever residential development.
Watch the webinar below.
Haute Living's Violet Camacho moderated the talk that featured:
- Missoni Creative Director & President Angela Missoni
- Paris Forino Interior Design’s Paris Forino
- Asymptote Architecture Design Architect Hani Rashid
- Enea Garden Design Landscape Architect Enzo Enea
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Highlight quotes from the webinar:
Angela Missoni: "I was very much impressed, of course, with the design and allure of the building. I am a fanatic of architecture; I have always had an attraction to it. I'm very much fascinated by beautiful clean places because then I can fill them with color. So I need a blank canvas, but a beautiful one... I need a view. I saw this building, and the view you can have from every floor, it's amazing. You can wake up in the morning and feel like you have already meditated, even if you don't meditate. You wake up and say, "Wow, yes, here I am... Miami a livable city where you can have a very good quality of life, and live there all year round while working. For Missoni, it really enhanced the sense that there is a different way of living. You can live with a different approach today, putting your quality of life at the front.
Paris Forino: "The inspiration for the interiors was clean, light, the perfect backdrop to insert the Missoni world... People want articulated spaces where they can have some privacy be on a [virtual] call, so the way we lay space out is changing. It is more pragmatic. I think it's fantastic that in Missoni Baia, there are these beautiful, livable terraces. You can put a whole living room out there and you can open up and enjoy the outdoors and that,wonderful expansive view. We are definitely changing the way we design on every level."
Hani Rashid: "From the very beginning, the whole thinking was to design something on the Edgewater site because of its prominence and because it's on the water's edge that had a real presence, a uniqueness in Miami. The very first discussions were really around the idea to produce something almost musical. demure, elegant, sophisticated, and clean. In that way, put something in the skyline that is in dialogue with the Miami of today and tomorrow... Missoni Baia is not just a clean, beautiful, elegant statement. It's actually a kind of indication of how Miami is maturing; how different people with different talents and skills and creativity can contribute to the future of Miami. This building becomes a litmus test for that... Missoni Baia is a proof of a theorem that, for all of us as creatives in every discipline, it's all going to depend on what we take from this and how we see this correction making things better as we go forward."
Enzo Enea: "Our philosophy is always to begin with the spirit of the place. By understanding the site context and the client's goals of the project, we then work to incorporate architecture... We try to embrace the architecture as much as possible, and to integrate it towards the spaces. Missoni Baia is a jewel box in the garden by incorporating plans with waves of colors, the integration of the fabrics in the furnishings... The building's architecture along with Missoni's brand is contemplative in the shapes, patterns, and spaces designed throughout the project... It's important that Miami embraces the art and culture that has come in; it has a big chance to build up a beautiful city that I think is [already] on the way."
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Angela Missoni, Paris Forino, Enzo Enea, Hani Rashid
