Mondrian South Beach

"Despite its name, this 220-room hotel on West Avenue is several blocks from the South Beach melee. What the curved tower lacks in SoBe Deco charm it more than makes up for with a Biscayne Bay view and Marcel Wanders’s surreal decor. His theme is Sleeping Beauty’s castle, which would be pretentious were it not transfixing: Giant chess-piece pillars grace the glossy white lobby; a black filigree staircase sweeps up from the Mondrian Caffe; and the beauty, presumably—a manga-style cartoon waif—pops up everywhere from the lobby to the suites. Pool cabanas, with piles of cushions, look like stage sets, and rooms have a monochrome palette and the odd splash of yellow in the form of a Droog (Wanders’s design firm) armchair or sofa."