After 15 years of the same editorial format, we decided it was time for a change. So, like many of the homes featured in Florida Design, we’ve renovated the interior. The headlines are larger, the captions easier to read, and we’ve opened up the floor plan, so to speak, to give the eye breathing room.

In that respect, Florida Design has something in common with Jeffrey Silberstein, who redesigned the interior of a Lake Worth home for a New York couple. His clients, Myles and Jo Fox, permanently relocated to South Florida and bought a house that offered a lot of light, space and ceiling height — ideal for the modern aesthetic they sought. Silberstein reconfigured the floor plan, and chose contemporary furnishings that work in concert with the couple’s modern art.

The classic lines and pure forms of a Winter Park house inspired designers Sam Ewing and Gail Winn’s modern interpretation of a Neoclassical design. The home’s symmetry also provided the perfect backdrop for the owner’s significant modern art collection, and new and antique furnishings.

Sometimes, the house itself becomes “a work of living sculpture,” such as the Winter Park estate conceived by residential designer Jim Lucia and designers Donna and Angela Brooks. Incorporating different heights, planes and curvilinear elements, this playful composition is a sculptural masterpiece.

A stunning art glass collection provided the starting point for designer Alan D. Cohen’s Art Deco interpretation in a four-story, Coconut Grove townhouse. Because his clients, Bernard and Jessie Wolfson, wanted an Art Deco style that was truly personal, Cohen meticulously designed every interior element.
Enjoy these stories — and our fresh, new look.

Barbara Lichtenstein