New Hotel at Versace Mansion, South Beach

A New Hotel in the Versace Mansion - NYTimes.com: "The former Miami Beach home of the late Gianni Versace, the Italian clothing designer, is seeing its second incarnation as a luxury boutique hotel, this time under the ownership of another fashion mogul. The Nakash family, which owns Jordache Enterprises, purchased the estate in September for $41.5 million, shortly after the property’s first hotel, the Casa Casuarina, closed. Barton G. Weiss, the property’s former manager, and his team will once again manage the hotel, which was reintroduced last month as the Villa by Barton G. with posh amenities, a new lounge and its own restaurant. Few changes have been made to Mr. Versace’s original opulent design, with 10 suites — none smaller than 434 square feet — decorated with frescoed ceilings, pebbled mosaics imported from Spain and private bathrooms laid in Italian marble. Mr. Versace’s own master bedroom, now called the Villa Suite, spans almost 1,200 square feet and includes seven closets, an oversize shower and a nine-foot double-king-size bed...." (read more at link above)

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