On a night that felt straight out of a Faena fairy tale, Grace Faena greeted Vogue100 in the shadow of Damien Hirst\u2019s gilded woolly mammoth skeleton encased in a glass vitrine. As the sun slipped low over Mid Beach, the party had a cinematic feel as guests gathered beneath the palms on the lawn of Faena Hotel Miami Beach\u2014the jewel of Miami\u2019s Faena District and, to borrow founder Alan Faena\u2019s own phrase, \u201ca total work of art\u201d\u2014for farewell cocktails and a dinner to close out Miami Art Basel.<\/p>\n
Flutes of Ruinart in hand, attendees raised a toast to Grace\u2014fashion designer and curator of the hotel\u2019s Big Bang Boutique\u2014who welcomed Vogue100 \u201cto my home on such a special weekend,\u201d the mammoth\u2019s bones glowing behind her, not dissimilar to her own dazzling liquid gold halter and cascading skirt.<\/p>\n
A long banquet table unfurled across the lawn, set with Christofle gold-rimmed china, gleaming silver, and pirouetting candelabras punctuated by tight pav\u00e9s of roses in silver julep cups; a tableau worthy of a film still. Overhead, strings of caf\u00e9 lights laced the palm canopy, turning the tropical garden into an open-air salon. Beyond the foliage, Es Devlin\u2019s Library of Us\u2014a revolving, 20-foot-high triangular library of thousands of books installed on Faena Beach for Miami Art Basel\u2014glinted in the distance. Commissioned by Faena Art, Library of Us serves as both an al fresco reading room and a beacon for the district; a reminder that the hotel\u2019s cultural life extends far beyond its walls.<\/p>\n
During dinner, waiters flowed to the table with plates of pink grapefruit and orange salad in a glossy citrus dressing, yellowfin tuna tartare, and wood-oven empanadas sizzling from the hearth. From the copper grill came a parrillada of skirt steak, branzino, chicken, and chorizo, accompanied by bowls of chimichurri, criolla, and garlic aioli. The Ruinart was topped up as conversation moved between art, fashion, and favorite fair discoveries. Faena\u2019s gold gown caught the light like filigree as she and Daniela Botero Saunders\u2014in shimmering silver\u2014spoke about Miami\u2019s unique energy and why they chose to raise their children in the city, with Saunders’s husband, Brent, nodding in agreement. Faena\u2019s mother, Monica Goldsmith, stopped by the table to say hello\u2014a gracious cameo that made the evening feel less like dinner in a hotel and more like a gathering at the Faena family home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a night that felt straight out of a Faena fairy tale, Grace Faena greeted Vogue100 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,46120,46119],"class_list":["post-83586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-vogue-parties","tag-vogue100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}