CHANEL BAL HARBOR'S GLAMOROUS NEW LOOK

  "We always have to start with reference to the iconography of Chanel," says the architect Peter Marino AD100, the creation of spaces for retail for French fashion house was for nearly two decades, "black and graphicism white brand, the feeling Paris flat by Coco Chanel, which means "Everything in the newly designed store in Bal Harbour Shops in Miami referenced the clothing in the store architecture.. From the outside it looks like an updated photographic light box, with a radiant complexion glows white marble facade of floor-to-ceiling windows that capture the past start and runway trends. Was inside the 8,000-square-foot interior has been completely redesigned, with glossy surfaces, pastel colors and shimmering gold tones.

"This business has a softer, due to its range and around Miami sun," says Marino. Applied in addition to the elegant aesthetic details such as woven by hand, gold wallpaper, furniture and blackened carpet reminiscent of the legendary Chanel tweed Marino designed. 'S art collection is equally impressive, with specially commissioned works by artists such as Peter Dayton, Marc Swanson and Liza Lou.

There is also a 18th Century Regency table and a rare Goossens bronze chandelier, with two large pieces of crystal-subtle allusion, perhaps, to Mademoiselle Chanel, who famously cluster of rock crystal was set up around display his famous apartment at 31 rue Cambon.