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The World's 50 Best Hotels
Four Seasons at The Surf Club
Elegant Floridian oasis that references its historic past while being firmly rooted in contemporary comforts.
The World's 50 Best Hotels
Four Seasons at The Surf Club
Elegant Floridian oasis that references its historic past while being firmly rooted in contemporary comforts.
Four Seasons’ New Yacht Cruises Come With Record-High Price Tags
Prices for one-week trips will typically range from $20,000 to $330,000—and food isn’t included.
When Four Seasons Yachts debuts its first 95-suite vessel in January 2026, it may well become the most expensive way to cruise.
Florida Developers Head West With 1$ Billion Ski-Town Project
Four Seasons hotel and condo resort is planned for Telluride, Colo.
Two of Florida’s most prominent real-estate developers are escaping the crowded beaches for a corner of the Rocky Mountains, where they are launching a nearly $1 billion hotel and residential project.
The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World: The Gold List 2024
Four Seasons at the Surf Club Miami
In the quiet residential enclave of Surfside, ensconed between the skin-revealing glitter of Miami Beach proper and the buttoned-up flash of Bal Harbour, the Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club is a timeless and all-welcoming, new-fashioned take on old-school glamor.
Travel + Leisure Readers' 15 Favorite Resorts in Greater Miami Beach of 2023
Sun, sand, and style complete the trifecta for our readers’ Miami resort must-haves in our annual "World’s Best Awards" survey for 2023.
There’s no one Miami Beach experience. You could park yourself on a stretch of sugar-soft white sand, marvel at Art Deco mansions, eat your way through the area’s best beachfront restaurants, shop til you drop on Lincoln Road, or hit the nightclubs on Ocean Drive.
A Four Seasons Is Coming to... Vatican City?
Here are exclusive new details on the Four Seasons Vatican City, opening in 2025
A trip to the Holy See is about to get a lot more comfortable. Veteran luxury hotel group Four Seasons will be moving into a 15th-century palazzo bordering Vatican City—an independent, 109- acre city-state in Rome that’s the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
Four Seasons and Miami Developer to Open Vatican City Hotel
Fort Partners aims to have hotel in 15th-century palace open in 2025
A Miami real-estate developer is leasing land from a Catholic organization to transform part of a 15th-century Italian palace into a Vatican City boutique hotel.
A 'World's Best' Chef Shares the Recipe for Perfect Summer Salad
On June 1, Rene Redzepi reopened the doors to his groundbreaking Copenhagen restaurant Noma. (In a conversation with Bloomberg Opinion, Redzepi said that, so far, the dining room was full of mostly locals, but that he had seen some tourists.) In New York, Eleven Madison Park and chef/owner Daniel Humm introduced the public to a much-hyped vegan menu on June 10.
Combining Apartments Isnt Easy. But for Homeowners Short on Space, Its Worth It.
Thinking about making two spaces into one?
Here are some things you should consider
These 10 Coastal Hotels Ooze Made-in-America Charm
From New England to the Pacific Northwest, plan your summer with these design-forward beach escapes
The Best Hotels in the World: 2019 Readers' Choice Awards
For our 32nd annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey—yes, more than three decades—a record 600,000 registered voters weighed in on their favorite hotels around the globe. Some hotel stays are utterly forgettable—decent food, standard sheets, and a middle-of-the-road location. But some, you'll remember for the rest of your life. The following list ranks the 50 best hotels in the world according to Traveler readers in this year's survey.
Why You Should Want To Live In A Four Seasons Residence In Florida
The hotel-branded residences concept dates back to the 1920’s when luxury hotels in New York including the Sherry-Netherland, the Carlyle Hotel and later the Waldorf-Astoria, offered private apartments within their confines for the most discriminate of buyers.
Florie's: everything about Mauro Colagreco's new restaurant
Owner of two Michelin stars, Argentine superchef opens its first restaurant in the US at the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach
The Best Hotels and Resorts in the U.S. and Canada: The 2019 Gold List
This year's Gold List of our editors' favorite hotels, resorts, and cruise ships in the world is the first transatlantic list for Traveler, created by teams in New York and London. It spans six continents and 36 countries. They're gold as in exceptional. Gold as in classic. Gold as in brilliant. Gold as in you'd do it all tomorrow.
If you ran one of the world’s top restaurants and were making your first foray into America, where would you go? New York? Los Angeles, the country’s current dining hot spot?
Chef Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur in Provence, the third-ranked venue on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, has chosen Florida.
When the Four Seasons Palm Beach resort debuts its lavish new digs in mid-November, it will do so with some Michelin shine. That’s because the resort has partnered with world-acclaimed chef Mauro Colagreco in creating its new signature restaurant, Florie’s.
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Soon, you won’t have to travel across the country to indulge in the world-famous food of Chef Thomas Keller, best known for his classic Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry. Keller is finally opening his a new restaurant in Miami, his first in Florida, and it promises to be every bit as iconic.
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In the late 1920s, business mogul Harvey Firestone sailed past Surfside, Florida, aboard his yacht, the Marybelle. Enchanted by this breathtaking stretch of golden beach and blue-green waters, Firestone – along with friends Carl Fisher and Irving Collins – immediately began dreaming about what it could become: a refuge for stars seeking to escape the limelight. On New Year’s Eve, 1930, the Surf Club was born.
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Miami's sunshine and good times have drawn visitors back for years, but a new hotel concept hopes to bring back some of the glamour of a bygone era.
The city has gone through plenty of reincarnations in its time -- there was the neon-pink "Miami Vice" scene of the 1980s, the elite velvet-rope days of Madonna and Versace and the boutique hotels in the 1990s. Then came the Kardashians and the spring breakers and the glitzy Art Basel crowds.
Checking in to Miami’s newly opened Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club, designed by American architect Richard Meier, my wife and I were upgraded to a top-floor oceanfront room. I’ve always had a thing for Mr. Meier’s minimalist glass and white-steel residences. Now we were going to spend five vacation days in one...
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It’s a new golden age for the city’s historic Surf Club hotel, which was recently reopened by the Toronto-based hotel brand.
You’re not more than a few paces into the lobby of the new Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club before you see him: Winston Churchill, in a framed black-and-white photo on the wall, swaddled in a voluminous white smock, painting a seascape in a cabana on the property.
Positano's household name, Le Sirenuse, has arrived Stateside, with a restaurant and champagne bar situated in the historic Miami landmark the Surf Club. Serving authentic Italian cuisine at the iconic oceanfront property, in a space designed by Joseph Dirand, Le Sirenuse Miami is the family-owned resort's first venture away from its Amalfi home.
"Spectacular is the word for The Surf Club" ran a headline in the Miami Herald in November 1959. "Although some of the conservative set snub [it] as a glorified night club," gushed staff writer Betsy Buffington, "the Club itself makes no bones about what it is: an exclusive place to have FUN. There’s an aura of excitement about [it] – you never know what to expect next or which celebrity you may meet."
The Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club in Miami has been one of the most talked-about openings in recent times. The original Surf Club was founded by tyre tycoon Harvey Firestone in 1930. In its midcentury heyday it was the scene of beach-front misbehavings of the most exclusive sort. This was a club with closed doors, behind which anything could happen and much did. There were poolside fashion shows, late-night boxing galas, elephants at parties and booze on the beach during Prohibition. Visitors included Winston Churchill, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Alfred Hitchcock and Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran. It was a fantasy, a bubble, a world of its own.
The Surf Club is trying to regain some of the pizzazz from its early years. Founded in 1930 by Harvey Firestone (of tire fame), the Northern Miami Beach membership club drew glitzy personalities from Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra to Grace Kelly and Winston Churchill during its midcentury heyday. Its ocean views provided fodder for Churchill, who was documented painting a seascape at the club in 1946.
Richard Meier Reimagines the World’s Most Iconic Private Club
Miami’s skyline is full of glass and white-metal minimalism, but only one property is attached to the genre’s greatest living master, Richard Meier.
Richard Meier - By the Sea
It could be said that Richard Meier’s architecture career truly began, more than five decades ago, on the water. His first credited project was a modest beachfront cottage he designed on New York’s Fire Island for artist Saul Lambert and his wife.
IN THE LATE 1920s, there were plenty of dreams floating around Miami Beach, a fantasy empire carved from a once-unwanted stretch of man- grove swamp. The country’s winter playground mixed together, like some garishly intoxicating cocktail, old-line WASPs with Detroit industrialists, Hollywood starlets with European royalty, ballroom dances with big crime syndicates.
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The arrival of the Four Seasons Private Residences Fort Lauderdale is fortuitous, to say the least. With 42 Private Residences, 48 Four Seasons Hotel Residences and 150 Hotel Suites, the acclaimed Four Seasons will undoubtedly be the finest new addition to grace Fort Lauderdale’s reimagined shoreline. It’s hard to believe it has been a decade since the St. Regis – now Ritz-Carlton – opened in an Arquitectonica-designed tower just a few blocks south.
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With completion set for the end of the year, The Surf Club is set to be one of the hottest places to stay in Miami. In addition to the original Russell Pancoast building that’s being carefully restored – and the shiny new Four Seasons-operated addition by Richard Meier that will include new hotel rooms and residences – the rejuvenated Surf Club will also comprise a collection of cabanas designed by Joseph Dirand.
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Looking to buy in a South Florida property whose helping hands include Pritzker winner Richard Meier? Better hurry — the Fort Partners-developed four-building Surf Club Four Seasons Private Residences at 9011 Collins Ave. in Surfside is nearly 80 percent sold and will start delivering residences this winter. The unit mix comprises one- to six-bedroom homes, plus 13 penthouses (just one of the latter is currently available), with prices now from $3.8 million to $40 million.
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A limited edition of 12 Richard Meier Signature Penthouses will crown the North and South towers of Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at The Surf Club, a visionary project that epitomizes luxury lliving in the 21st century, while evoking the glamour of old Miami.
Amongst the numerous Art Deco hotels currently being rejuvenated in Miami is The Surf Club, located in Miami Beach. Soon to be reopened with a new Richard Meier design and operated by The Four Seasons, the property in collaboration with Fort Partners will host ‘LAX – MIA: Light + Space’, an art exhibition curated by Parallel, comprising architecture curator Terence Riley, architect John Keenen and art historian Joachim Pissarro.
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Since Richard Meier’s rejuvenation of the historic Surf Club in Miami’s Surfside district was announced last year, the ambitious project has been hurtling towards completion with more features and amenities being added to it as the months have passed.
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The last vestige of the Tropic Cay motel along Fort Lauderdale
beach is now gone.
Construction workers on Wednesday leveled the motel and its
signature tower as they cleared part of a 1.8-acre site that soon
will house the Four Seasons Hotel & Residences Fort Lauderdale.
If the old adage “Location, location, location” really is the No. 1 priority in real estate, then Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at The Surf Club is poised for success. Stationed on 9 oceanfront acres in Miami Beach, the residence includes two 12-story towers comprising 150 homes, two restaurants, four swimming pools, a fitness center and spa, and beautiful seaside gardens.
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After acquiring the missing piece for its planned Four Seasons Hotel & Residences Fort Lauderdale, Fort Partners is getting ready to launch sales for the project this fall, The Real Deal has learned.
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When real-estate investor Nadim Ashi approached Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts in 2013 about branding his Miami Beach property with the luxury operator, he was told it couldn’t happen because of a deal the company made nearly two decades earlier. The company had agreed to grant the Canadian owners of the Palm Beach Four Seasons hotel exclusive rights, for 40 years, to any new properties on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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An opportunistic real estate investor who repositioned multiple distressed condo buildings during the recession, Nadim Ashi is embarking on his boldest South Florida venture with the Surf Club Hotel and Residences development in Surfside. The founder and CEO of Miami-based Fort Capital Management, Ashi recruited prominent architects Kobi Karp and Richard Meier to design the project, which incorporates an historic building designed by Russell Pancoast.
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Richard Meier has been an architect for half a century, and yet, the Pritzker Prize winner has never bought an apartment of his own design. Until now. Mr. Meier, who is based in New York City, was one of the first to buy a condominium at Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at The Surf Club, his latest project in Miami.
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