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Bal Harbour is an exquisite destination

anchored
by the internationally renowned Bal Harbour
Shops, chic beachfront hotels and tantalizing
restaurants. This is the true American Riviera,
South Beach for grown-ups, rich with natural
wonders and a gentle mood. It’s the ultimate
South Florida retreat, close enough to the
action to dip into the rush of the night, but far
enough removed from the maddening fray of
South Beach nightlife to feel like a quiet
paradise. When you’ve exhausted the world,
Bal Harbour is the place to escape.
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11 things
to do
and see
in Bal
harBour
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Beach Blanket Movies:
Throughout the winter, Bal
Harbour produces a picture-
perfect cinematic experience with its
5 Life’s a Beach: With its limited
public access beaches, you’ll
swear your little slice of Bal
Harbour beach belongs to you
9 Sport Life: Lovers of the
water world can spend the
day windsurfing, parasailing,
snorkeling or even charter a boat
outdoor movie screenings. Headlining alone. The pristine white sands are for deep-sea fishing. The golf crowd
this al fresco affair is a slate of recent meticulously maintained to ensure a has its pick of countless
Hollywood hits, silver-screen classics, picturesque beach-going experience championship courses, and yoga
evocative shorts and award-winning every time. and Pilates devotees can enjoy
international features. classes right on the sand. And the

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$3 million jogging path that runs
Author, Author: The Bal along the beach is bound to inspire
Harbour Shops outpost of your workout.

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Books & Books features Culture Vultures: Bal Harbour is
books beyond measure, regular
readings, author appearances and

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the perfect bookshop cafe to kick Café Society: At certain
back and indulge in the printed moments, Bal Harbour is a

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firing on all cultural cylinders.
Since the 2009 launch of the little slice of Europe, and its
Arts Initiative, Bal Harbour has café-set savors the Bal Harbour
become a cultural hub and the perfect
spot to take in art, film and literary
events all year round.
page. Luxe Life: Bal Harbour is the Shops. Whether it's a pre-lunch
place to unwind and spa it up. cappuccino at Segafredo or a glass

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Kid Kulture: Located at the ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa of wine at La Goulue, you'll be living

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time-honored Sea View Hotel, has a sleek 10,000-square-foot la dolce vita—without the jet lag.
the Bal Harbour Beach Camp is waterfront spa, and the new St.

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Regis
a haven for kids. In collaboration with Bal Harbour Resort offers the Cultural Commute: Bal

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the Miami Children’s Museum, the 12,000-square-foot Remède Spa, Harbour is perfectly situated
daily program features Green Team with its own line of skincare products. in between the city's most
classes, focused on recycling and revered cultural institutions. Within a
gardening and Culture Connections, Food with a View: The 10-mile radius is the Museum of
which takes a look at cultures around hotels of Bal Harbour offer Contemporary Art in North Miami;
the world. tasty fare combined with the Wolfsonian-FIU in South
pitch-perfect Beach, which is dedicated to the
Magic Bus: Five days a week, oceanfront visuals. At the new history of
from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., the Bal St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, decorative and propaganda arts,
Harbour Shuttle offers free chef while the Bass Museum covers
access to the Bal Harbour Shops and Jean-Georges Vongerichten is everything from Renaissance to
hotels. The shuttle also provides direct working his culinary magic at the J&G contemporary
access to Lincoln Road in South Grill; ONE Bal Harbour’s art. In addition, the just-opened New
Beach. contemporary American food at World Symphony, housed in a Frank
Mister Collins and the historic Sea Gehry-designed building, provides a
View Hotel and its casual Terrace hefty dose of sound stimulation.
Room.
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bal
harbour
shops
High style is always in fashion.

The Bal Harbour Shops was forward-thinking enough to open

in 1965, a time when innovative, open-air luxury malls in Miami
had to think—and act—like pioneers. Built on the site of a
former WWII army barracks, the one-story Bal Harbour Shops
opened with
30 upscale retail stores, including a Martha Phillips boutique,
FAO Schwarz, Abercrombie & Fitch and Schrafft’s. In that
era, enormous air-conditioned malls were the
norm; the intimate Bal Harbour Shops was
open-air and lushly landscaped, a green-
conscious mall that is still ahead of its time.
The seminal fountainhead of this
particular vision has always been Stanley
Whitman, who bucked the prevailing trends
of the era and created an enduring retail
miracle. “When you dance with the crowd,
you only get what’s left behind at the table,”
Whitman once said.
The Shops’ success was ensured when
another legend of retail, Neiman Marcus,
opened its first specialty department store
outside of Dallas. Drawn to that store’s success,
Saks Fifth Avenue joined the Bal Harbour Shops
in 1976. In 1982, a second floor was added, and
steadily, a slew of chic retailers from Europe
opened up there, including Gucci, which
selected Bal Harbour for its first mall
location.
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Dolce & Gabbana, Roger Vivier, Cartier, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton and Prada all
picked Bal Harbour for their first outposts outside of New York, and in 2009,
Lanvin opened its first United States operation at the Shops. Over time, Van
Cleef & Arpels, Chanel, Valentino, Fendi, Miu Miu, Balenciaga, Breguet, CH
Carolina Herrera, La Perla and Stella McCartney joined the mix. Moncler,
Canali and Alexander McQueen are on the horizon. Now home to more than 100
fashion and jewelry shops, the forever elegant Bal Harbour Shops boasts
the highest concentration of luxury jewelry and watch boutiques in the
country. (Officine Panerai just opened during Art Basel Miami Beach in
December.)
According to Women’s Wear Daily, the Bal Harbour Shops is the most
productive shopping complex in the United States, based on average sales per
square foot. In 2011, it had its best year, with annual average sales of $2,326 per
square foot, the highest in the nation. Bal
Bal Harbour Shops Harbour Shops has also become
an international tourist
is the most productive destination, with shoppers from Latin
shopping complex America, Europe, China and Japan
Clockwise from above: The early days
accounting for a sizable chunk of the mall’s
in the United States. annual sales figures.
of Bal Harbour;
Panerai boutique at
the Officine
Bal Harbour
Shops; a look from the Diane von
Much of that success is the result of Bal Furstenberg Spring
Harbour Shops being a family-owned 2012 runway; Matthew Lazenby
business—one that has been their passion for three generations. The management Whitman (left), Stanley Whitman and
Randy Whitman at the Shops; the new
team includes Stanley Whitman’s son Randy (“Ninety-five percent of the time we Stella McCartney boutique.
all get along fine,” he says.) and his grandson Matthew Whitman Lazenby. The
latter says he likes the “open communication” of being in a family business and is
working on plans for a 200,000-square-foot addition
to the Bal Harbour Shops that will boast an upscale
movie theater and an array of smaller, younger,
more forward-thinking boutiques from Europe.
“We’re running out of elbow room, and we
need more space. The Bal Harbour Shops is what
the market wants. And the shops in the expansion
area give us a chance to appeal to the next
generation of Neiman Marcus
customers—not only their
daughters, but their granddaughters too.”
For Stanley Whitman, who still reports to work
every day, it’s just a simple matter of staying
the course. “For us, it’s never been today or
tomorrow. It’s about 10 years from tomorrow, the
future.”
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cultured A Cultural Renaissance in Bal Harbour

Spearheading Bal Harbour’s cultural initiative is Bal Harbour Art Nights, held regularly at the Bal Harbour Shops, which
is dedicated to celebrating the arts—from the convergence of fashion and art to the burgeoning local scene. Each Art
Night, the Bal Harbour Shops are transformed into a cultural hotbed of activity with salon-style talks, performance
pieces, guest appearances and site-specific art installations. Art Chats—another regular Bal Harbour series—was
created to provide visionaries a platform to deliver their insights about the art world. It launched last year with guest
Micky Wolfson, Jr., founder of the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum.

Artist Michael
Genovese Mark Handforth’s Eclipse, 2003

Wolfsonian-FIU
founder, Micky

MOCA
Wolfson, Jr.

Artist Bert Bal Harbour's neighborhood museum, the Museum

Rodriguez of
Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami, is
getting ready to grow. A major expansion
designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman +
Associates Architects will more than double MOCA's
overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than
triple its current exhibition space to 23,730 square
feet. The expansion comes at a pivotal time for the
groundbreaking museum, which, under the direction
of Bonnie Clearwater, has helped launch the careers
of many local talents, including Teresita Fernandez
and Mark Handforth, whose solo show was on view
during the most recent Art Basel Miami Beach.
mocanomi.org
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LocaL FLavor
The St. Regis has a long tradition of
SANTIAGO RUBINO
incorporating fine art into its hotel designs—
and its latest property, the St. Regis Bal
Harbour Resort, carries that torch with a
stunning contemporary work by local artist
Santiago Rubino. Following in the footsteps of
famed artist Maxfield Parrish—whose mural
above the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis New
York is legendary—Rubino puts a decidedly
contemporary spin on his commission for the
hotel. Born in Buenos Aires and entirely
self-taught, Rubino—who is represented by
the locally based Spinello Projects and has
been featured in numerous publications, such
as Vogue and the book Miami Graffiti—has
had several solo exhibitions, including
“Delusive Contentment” at the Jack Shainman
Gallery in New York. At the St. Regis, Rubino
created a triptych, “Eyes of the Stars.” A
graphite, charcoal and oil pencil on paper, the
piece evokes a fantastical royal family at its
A detail from
leisure, surrounded by peacocks and pleasure. Santiago Rubino’s
It’s pure Bal Harbour. spinelloprojects.com “Eyes of the Stars.”

Books & Books

Founded by Mitchell Kaplan in Coral Gables, Books & Books is a beloved, locally owned,
independent bookstore chain. Kaplan, who is also the co-founder of the Miami Book Fair
International, opened the 2,000-square-foot shop at Bal Harbour in 2005, and since then, the store
has hosted countless readings and author appearances. In Bal Harbour, all worlds intersect, and
nothing speaks to that notion more clearly than the variety of authors who have held book signings
at Books & Books. Among them are Hillary Duff, Tori Spelling, Bethenny Frankel, Jackie Collins,
Tyra Banks, Perez Hilton, Dave Barry, Padma Lakshmi and Michael Wex. Other Books & Books
locations include Lincoln Road in South Beach, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Miami
International Airport, Westhampton Beach, New York and Grand Cayman Island.
booksandbooks.com
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The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort

CheCking in
Bal Harbour enters a new era of luxurious
accommodations.

Just as Bal Harbour’s fashion scene has reached unparalleled heights, so too have the hotel offerings within this
tiny slice of paradise.
Consider it the rebirth of a destination long famous for its luxuries—both natural and manmade. Bal Harbour has
always been home to the glitterati and was once the stomping ground for Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, as well as
Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. And in the current era, Bal Harbour hotels—from the St. Regis Bal Harbour
Resort to ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa—continue to attract the illustrious.
This year the St. Regis, designed by Yabu Pushelberg, debuted with 243 plush rooms, the exclusive Remède Spa,
J&G Grill and white-glove service from the iconic St. Regis Butlers. Occupying the site of the former Americana Hotel,
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The Americana hotel circa

1960 is now the site of the
new St. Regis Hotel.

built by the Tisch family and designed by Morris Lapidus of Eden Roc and Fontainebleau fame, the St. Regis is the
new
Grande Dame of Bal Harbour.
Last year, Quarzo, a new chic boutique hotel, opened its doors to offer personalized services, 29 apartment-size
suites and its trademark meditation garden. Plans for expansion over the next two years are in the works, with nearly
60 new rooms slated to open in 2012 and an additional 40-plus rooms in 2013.
For those who like their accommodations with a touch of nostalgia, the Sea View hotel is there to meet that
demand. While the hotel completely renovated its rooms last year, there’s still plenty of Florida charm. A favorite
amongst multi-generational families, the Sea View’s expansive pool deck boasts Key West-style cabanas, while the
poolside coffee shop continues to serve the hotel’s legendary chocolate milkshakes and tuna melts.
ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa opened in 2009 on a stretch of beachfront property nestled between the ocean
and bay. Each one of the hotel’s 124 rooms has an ocean view, spacious balconies and access to the hotel’s lavish
10,000-square-foot spa. And speaking of space, guests will be delighted to find that they share a floor with only one
other neighbor. ONE Bal Harbour also boasts a $4 million art collection, a top-notch restaurant, Mister Collins, and a
Pawcierge service for pets.
It’s a good time to be in Bal Harbour.
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Clockwise from top left: a view

from the Bal Harbour Quarzo
Hotel; a master bathroom at
ONE Bal Harbour; the historic
Sea View Hotel.
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behind the design

Yabu Pushelberg channels Miami Beach glamour.
The new St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort features elegant interiors by the
award-winning design firm Yabu Pushelberg. Helmed by its
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Fitness
What could be better than oceanfront exercise?
The best things in life are free, and Thursday through Sunday
mornings residents and hotel guests of Bal Harbour can enjoy
yoga and Pilates classes offered by Nomi Pilates on Bal
Harbour Beach, located just behind ONE Bal Harbour Resort &
Spa. Participants just need to bring a mat or towel and be
ready to tone, tighten and salute the beautiful sunrise.
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feeding frenzy
From upscale Japanese to the perfect pizza, options abound in Bal
Harbour.
The fine-dining scene in Bal Harbour continues to grow. The Bal Harbour Shops—already home to such mainstays as
the classic Carpaccio—now boasts such forward-thinking restaurants as Stephen Starr’s Makoto. And this year ushers in
the era of the true star chef, one Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who will be helming his signature J&G Grill at the St.
Regis Bal Harbour Resort. Vongerichten, who also has restaurants in St. Regis properties from Bora Bora to Bahia,
knows the drill.
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Wine and dine Me

Morning till night, Bal Harbour has something to satiate every
palate.
BREAKFAST Contemporary
Classic The Newsstand by Books & Books, located on the second floor
The Sea View Hotel is a legendary Bal just outside of Neiman Marcus, is a
Harbour hotel, and The Terrace Room recent addition to the Bal Harbour
is the perfect spot for casual Shops and continues the
dining overlooking the beach, with time-honored tradition of offering a
such traditional dishes as Belgian place to enjoy coffee, tea and treats
waffles, eggs Florentine and the Sea while immersed in a great book.
View Benedict, consisting of poached
eggs served on smoked salmon. COCKTAILS
Contemporary Classic
BAL Santa Fe News & Espresso is located on the second level of the Savarin is one of the latest culinary
HARBOUR Bal additions at Bal Harbour. The jewel
SHOPS Harbour Shops and is a favorite with the smart set. box of a space is lined with display
Makoto 305-864-8600, This pocket-sized establishment with seating for 30 boasts cases tempting even the most virtuous
makoto-restaurant.com traditional Argentine fare, such as empanadas, pastelitos and of patrons. Not to be missed is the
Carpaccio 305-867-7777,
alfajores, and is known for having the best espresso in town. extensive selection of caviar, cocktails
carpaccioatbalharbour.com
La Goulue 305-865-2181, Peruse the newsstand, with its international selection of and Champagne.
lagouluebalharbour.com newspapers and magazines offering everything from Le Figaro to Contemporary
Segafredo Bal Harbour ¡HOLA! Segafredo Bal Harbour is a chic
305-864-0595, outdoor lounge with a thoroughly
sze-balharbour.com LUNCH Euro vibe. Live music sets the tone at
Zodiac Café at
Neiman Marcus
Classic this second floor perch where fresh
305-865-6161 On the first level of the Bal Harbour Shops, cocktails never disappoint the
Santa Fe News La Goulue boasts a décor that recalls a discerning crowd.
& Espresso 1900s Parisian bistro and features traditional
305-861-0938 bistro fare: croque-monsieur, moules frites, DINNER
Savarin
steak frites, soupe à l'oignon. And best of Classic
305-993-5563
Books & Books Café all, the people-watching opportunities are beyond appetizing. It could be argued that
305-864-4241 Contemporary Carpaccio is where the social
Mister Collins at the sleek new ONE Bal buzz begins at Bal Harbour
Harbour hotel offers spectacular views with Shops. Join in the longstanding
HOTELS its unique vantage point where the ocean tradition of watching the scene
The Terrace Room at
meets the bay. Its menu features an to be seen from the
the Sea View Hotel,
305-866-4441 extensive wine list, a remarkable craft beer restaurant’s courtyard at the
seaview-hotel.com selection and such locally sourced dishes as very center of the Shops. The
Mister Collins at heirloom tomato salad and seared divers Italian menu is known for its
ONE Bal Harbour, scallops with roasted asparagus. This is the homemade pasta,
305-455-5460
place to linger and lunch. fresh salads and, of course, carpaccio to suit every taste.
mistercollins.com
J&G Grill at the Contemporary
St. Regis Bal Harbour SNACK Makoto—the latest culinary gem from Stephen Starr—opened to
Resort, Classic great fanfare last year, and the reservation line has been buzzing
305-993-3300 The Zodiac Café at Neiman Marcus is a ever since. Named for its sublime sushi chef, Makoto is all about
stregisbalharbour.com Bal Harbour Shops tradition in itself. Stop carefully modulated interiors and sophisticated food: yellowtail
in the art-filled space for its legendary tartare, aoyagi, foie gras gyoza, chilled green-tea soba noodles,
popover or satisfy your sweet tooth even inspired sushi rolls and an unrivaled robata grill.
further with
Neiman Marcus’ famed chocolate chip cookies.
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Top Chef
In the kitchen with Jean-Georges Vongerichten
One of the world’s most famous chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten
—of Spice Market and the new J&G Grill at The St. Regis Bal
Harbour Resort—is known for his innovative flair for mixing the
cuisines of Asia and France to a profoundly wonderful effect. His
newest venture promises to embrace the flavors of South Florida, Asia
and Latin America and then bring it all back to Bal Harbour.

Bal Harbour: Are there dishes and influences from your other
restaurants that you are planning to incorporate at the St. Regis
Bal Harbour Resort?
Jean-Georges Vongerichten: I always have inspirational direction for
the menu based on location but then find we edit based on finds in
the local markets. Local ingredients and product availability really
dictate the final menu.
BH: You’re known for your fondness for chilis and acid, working
with citrus and vinegars. What tropical fruits from South Florida
are you looking forward to working with at J&G Grill?
JGV: I am looking forward to working with citrus fruits like
oranges, Meyer lemons, key limes as well as Florida tomatoes.
BH: What local Florida fish do you look forward to working with?
JGV: Fish like pompano, grouper, mahi mahi, stone crab and
whatever is running seasonally. We like to work with local fishermen.
BH: What do you think of the increasing sophistication of the
Miami culinary scene? How is Miami different than, say, New York? With Art Basel,
JGV: Miami and New York are filled with restaurants—there are South Beach Wine
many classic, renowned restaurants and chefs as well as new,
emerging, young talent. What is unique about Miami is the Latin & Food Festival and
influence and flavors, which inspire and allow me to dig deeper into
a new cuisine. BH: What trends do you think will unfold in Miami’s
other happenings,
culinary landscape? Miami has really
JGV: I see a current explosion in gastropubs, and I think we’ll see a
few high-end quality Latin restaurants emerging. With Art Basel, South
become a mecca for
Beach Wine & Food Festival and other happenings, Miami has really cultural events.
become a mecca for cultural events.
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Bal Harbour is ideally located

18 miles from both the Miami
and Fort Lauderdale airports,
15 miles from the Port of
Miami and 18 miles from Port
Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.
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The jogging path at Bal Harbour beach.

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Bal Harbour is not a very big place,

just
one square mile, and it’s hardly
crowded, with slightly more than 3,000
residents. But this little beach town
packs a serious urban punch, from
oceanfront dining to rich cultural
programming, and inch for inch, the
fashion at Bal Harbour Shops is
unrivaled. And then, there’s that
famed beach...Bal Harbour truly has it
all.
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