a fawn sculpture, and even a pair of salt-and-pepper-bearing turtles to the party.

And just as the dining room hums with Florida’s abiding vitality, Brittany Bromley’s bedroom promises a verdant, serene bower for dreamy nights. A custom wallpaper is home to pink parrots and delicate botanicals, while overhead, decorative artist Mary Meade Evans creates a ceiling of Venetian plaster “like the inside of a seashell, Bromley says. An upholstered four-poster bed “makes you feel fully enveloped. I imagine sitting up in bed and looking out through the doors to the world outside.”

Below, three more designers who’ve harnessed Florida’s natural- world verve.

The Peak of Poolside Fashion…

…NEEDS A POSH PLACE TO HANG OUT. With floor-to-ceiling cabinetry partitioned to hold a bevy of hostess gowns (not to mention compartments for sun hats, handbags, and a dressing table), designer Nicole White worked with The Container Store to make sure that her primary closet could house even the most capacious wardrobe. She artfully avoided frond-laden tropes in favor of her own sensibilities, selecting a chic black-and-white color palette, sus-

pending a monumental brass floral chan-

A Mad Modernist Streak

A BEAUTIFUL TENSION ripples through South Florida, an exciting cohabitation of the area’s Spanish American influences and pioneering modernism. In the kitchen, designer Mark Williams leaned into this dynamic, cladding a single wall in slim, stacked handmade tiles as an avant-garde nod to the home’s more rustic Mediterranean flooring and shunning traditional painted cabinetry for ultra-streamlined white- oak woodwork.

Meanwhile, designer Nina Magon played upon her own European aesthetic bent but drew color inspiration from one of the most iconic symbols of Old Florida: the flamingo. A monumental portrait of 1950s model Jean Patchettshotby Horst P. Horst sulks over pink walls and a centerpiece porcelain bed.

Classic Nautical Dress

SPYING THE UP CLOSE and personal views of sailboats on the in tracoastal waterway, Benjamin Deaton knew that ocean scenery had to remain the focus of the living room. And when he came across a set of photos of stylemaker Bunny Mellon’s Manhattan dining room, an ode to the water was born. Mellon’s crisp cerulean wall color inspired a dapper silk wallcovering, which he trimmed in a crimson gimp (a sophisticated nautical hue he repeated in a lampshade and wall art). A navy-and-white stripe covers a pair of Billy Baldwin slipper chairs, balanced by an exuberant ruby-and-teal floral on a cozy club chair. ” wanted it to be comfortable for predinner cocktails or even playing a board game into the evening, says Deaton.