Palm Beach is essentially Miami's opposite, its social register more
black-tie, its aura more Florida Regency. Mindel captured this in a white
stucco house there, connecting its front garden and backyard pool through
a crisp black-and-white interior that faces outward through tall, mullioned
windows on the street side and emphatically outlined window walls along the
rest. Out back, a fringe of black-and-white–striped awning accents the
rearview windows. In a rare note of color, a series of lithographs by Josef
Albers (a Mindel favorite) line the walls of a small office.
On a late November evening, Mindel was back home in Surfside,
preparing for the invigorating rush of Art Week, as well as for a side trip
to Wellington, where he's designing a new house and stables on a horse
farm. As he took in his ocean view, it didn't seem a leap to assume that he
was once again hatching a plan for
water to find its way into the scene.
Mindel's condo at
Eighty-Seven Park
features the
Ammanoid Gama
chair by Misha Kahn
and Hyper Ellipsoid, a
bioluminescent
sculpture by Gisela
Colon. On the
Francois Bauchet
coffee table is Vessel
#1 by Dee Clements;
Beside the Bowy sofa
by Patricia Urquiola
for Cassina is Rashid
Johnson's Untitled
Bust. The handwoven
mohair blanket is by
Lena Rewell.
The space's tropical flair
includes a bioluminescent
sculpture that "looks
like something you might
find under the sea."
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