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โ€œOrange is the happiest color.โ€ ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก
โ€” Frank Sinatra

#shotoniphone #miamicolortheory #orange #powerlines
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Originally Hoffmanโ€™s Cafeteria 
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1940

1450 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach

This Art Deco structure in the Nautical Moderne style that has had many lives. With wave-like designs and vertical images it evokes the feeling of a shipโ€™s smokestacks or funnel. It opened on December 24th, 1940 as the popular eatery โ€œHoffmanโ€™s Cafeteriaโ€ to accommodate 500 customers. Most of the establishment was a self-service one but a portion of it was a restaurant.
From 1942-1945, it became an Army Mess Hall. After that it was Warsaw Ballroom, Warsaw ballroom
Ovo at Warsaw, China Club, Jerryโ€™s Famous Deli, 
Senior Frogs, and now itโ€™s a surf shop.

#artdeco #artdecomiami #henryhohauser #artdecoarchitecture
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๐ŸŸฆ๐ŸŸฆ๐ŸŸฆ๐ŸŸฆ๐ŸŸฆ

Miami Beach Art Deco
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โ€œA good photograph is knowing where to stand.โ€
โ€“ Ansel Adams ๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š

๐Ÿ“The Drake
1460 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect David T Ellis, 1937

#shotoniphone 
#artdeco
#pastels
#oceandrive
#artdecodistrict
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๐Ÿ“ Barbizon Hotel
530 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1937

โ€œThe sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.โ€
โ€” Louis Kahn

๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’šโค๏ธ๐Ÿฉต

#artdeco #miamibeachartdeco #henryhohauser #oceandrive miamicolortheory
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โ€œNothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.โ€
โ€” Lao Tzu

I love how water bends light. 

๐Ÿ“Flamingo Park 

#miamicolortheory
#practiceofseeing
#waterandlight
#refraction
#waterphotography๐Ÿ’ฆ
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โ€œThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.โ€ - W.B. Yeats ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿค

If you know Miamiโ€ฆ you might recognize a few of these. Which ones?
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Things are looking up, and there is beauty everywhere! ๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›โฌ†๏ธ
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โ€œA person who works with their hands is a laborer. A person who works with their hands and their brain is a craftsman. A person who works with their hands, their brain, and their heart is an artistโ€. - Marco Pierre White ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค๐Ÿ™Œ
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โ€œLight creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.โ€
โ€” Le Corbusier ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿค

#fluting
#architecturaldetail
#artdeco
#miamibeacharchitecture
#miamicolortheory
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ยซ Ceci nโ€™est pas une pipe. ยป โ€” Renรฉ Magritte ๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿค๐Ÿฉท

#renemagritte #conceptualart #minimalism #practiceofseeing #miamicolortheory
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โ€œYou were only waiting for this moment to arise.โ€
โ€” The Beatles, Blackbird (1968)

Sometimes, all you have to do is look up. 

Includes Live Photos #shotoniphone 

#blackbird
#lookup
#practiceofseeing
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โ€œAim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.โ€
โ€” W. Clement Stone ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’™โค๏ธ

I included a hyper lapse and a what my camera roll looks like ๐Ÿ˜Š

#miamicolortheory
#practiceofseeing
#geometriccomposition
#colorrelationships
#minimalphotography
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๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค๐ŸŒดโšซ๏ธ

๐Ÿ“ The Drake
1460 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect: David T. Ellis, 1937

Pastels are simply colors softened with white.

Blue + white = baby blue
Red + white = pink
Yellow + white = butter
Blue + yellow = green
Green + white = mint

In art, value is the lightness or darkness of a color (or hue).
High value = light
Low value = dark

#artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #pastel #miamicolortheory #oceandrive
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โ€œAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,โ€ - Simone Weil๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›โค๏ธ

๐Ÿ“ @miamichildrensmuseum 
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture
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Remember- If a potato can become vodka, you can be anything you want to be. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ“Southgate Towers, Miami Beach
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More hotels on my Photo Walking tour for Open House Miami with Open House Miami & @miami_cad 
๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š

Parisian Hotel
1510 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Geneva Hotel,
1530 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Thanks to Barbara Baer Capitman and @mdpl1976 for preserving South Beachโ€™s Art Deco, Mimo (Miami Modern) and Mediterranean Revival buildings!

The Miami Beach Architectural District, known as the Art Deco District in South Beach, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1979. It was the nationโ€™s first 20th-century historic district, featuring over 800 preserved buildingsโ€”mostly from the 1930s-1940sโ€”concentrated between 5th Street, Ocean Drive, Collins Canal, and Alton Road. ๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿงก๐Ÿฉท

#artdecomiami
#miamibeachartdeco
#decoarchitecture
#openhousemiami 
#photowalk
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Are you ready? โ€œLook Upโ€ by @miamicolortheory continues! Every night from 6-11pm at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel through the end of February! ๐Ÿฅš๐ŸŽ‰

#lookup
#miamicolortheory
#miamibeacharchitecture
#seeingdifferently
#artinpublicspaces

Projected onto a super cool Miami Beach landmark by @shulmandesign

I like to stand in the crowd watching people discover it in real time! ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŽ‰
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โ€œRepetition creates rhythm.โ€
โ€” Robert Delaunay

๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค
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One of the stops on my โ€œOpen House Miamiโ€ (@miami_cad ) Photo Walking Tour is @jessynite โ€œIn Your Eyes I Come Aliveโ€ at the art deco Avalon Hotel (architect Albert Anis, 1941). Originally presented as part of the City of Miami Beachโ€™s No Vacancy program, the piece uses sunlight to reveal its message through shadow, shifting throughout the day and changing depending on where you stand.

Other pieces of hers in Miami (I love her work!) that Iโ€™ve photographed are High Hopes on 71st Street in Little Haiti, (on a @slomo29 mural), โ€œThe Sun Is High and So Am Iโ€ at Soho Beach House, and โ€œPleasureโ€ as part of a trilogy inside the Nike Store on Lincoln Road. 

#miamicolortheory #openhousemiami #novacancymiami #jessynite #avalonhotel
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LOOK UP by @miamicolortheory is back at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel nightly for the rest of February, 6-11pm!
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โ€œThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.โ€ ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค
โ€” Dorothea Lange

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #seeingdifferently #miamicolor #architecturedetails
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โ€œI prefer living in color.โ€ - David Hockney โค๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿค

Mural by @jenstark on Espanola way, Miami Beach

#miamicolortheory
#jenstark
#espanolaway
#colorandlight 
#miamibeachart
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โ€œArchitecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.โ€ โ€” Le Corbusier ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›

๐Ÿ“ (Formerly โ€œSurf Hotelโ€) 
444 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1936

#miamicolortheory #henryhohauser #artdecomiami #oceandrive #colorandshadow
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โ€œThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.โ€ โ€” Frank Lloyd Wright

Leslie Hotel
Albert Anis, 1937
1244 Ocean Drive

Congress Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1052 Ocean Drive

Cardozo Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1300 Ocean Drive

Thank you @mdpl1976 for preserving, promoting, and preserving art deco. 

#henryhohauser #artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #oceandrive #miamidesignpreservationleague ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿฉต
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Loving the new colors of the Miami Beach parking garage! We have great Parkitecture.

๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿงก๐Ÿฉต
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โ€œYou canโ€™t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.โ€โ€” Maya Angelou ๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿฉทโค๏ธ

Happy birthday to my creative & talented daughter Mia! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฉต๐ŸŽ‚ LOVE YOU!

And Happy Valentineโ€™s Day to all! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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When glass turns architecture into a painting. The Lincoln Eatery reflected, creating waves of blue, green, and gold.
๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿค

#miamicolortheory #miamiart #architecturedetails #urbanabstraction #reflections
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โ€œRhythm is a pattern in time.โ€ โ€” George Gershwin

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿค๐Ÿงก๐Ÿค
#rhythm #pattern #graphiclines #designinspiration #miamicolortheory
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So exciting to see Seeing Differently: Miami Color Theory out in the wild at @thebassmoa @pammshop @booksandbooks @dale_zine @wynwoodwallsshopofficial @miamibookfair @habitathyett @glottmanshop @studio_af_miami @nisi_b_home @miamibeachgarden and more.
๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงกโค๏ธ๐Ÿ’™๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฅฐ

Thank you @trapublishing for bringing this book into the world. ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ™Œ

This book is an invitation to notice color, shape, and beauty. The more you look, the more you find.

#miamicolortheory #seeingdifferently #artbook #miamiart #independentbookstores
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โ€˜The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.โ€™ -  Alberto Giacometti ๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’™

#colorandform #abstractcomposition #artanddesign #architecturephotography #miamicolortheory
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An Art Deco eyebrow is a projecting ledge above a window that shades interiors from the sun โ€” a climate-smart solution in the era before air conditioning โ€” and gives Miami Beach Art Deco buildings their sleek, aerodynamic rhythm. In this series, curved forms transform a functional detail into a graphic signature. ๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿงก๐Ÿฉต 

Thank you @mdpl1976 for helping preserve these gems.

#MiamiBeachArtDeco #ArtDecoArchitecture #MiamiArchitecture #ArchitecturePhotography #MiamiColorTheory
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The moment you decide to pay attention with intention โ€” to step out of your head or away from scrolling on your phone โ€” the world opens up. Even in traffic, bright colors and patterns can turn a frustrating moment into joy. When you train your eyes to look for beauty, you find it everywhere.

This a a Leon Medical transport van.
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โ€œColor is a power which directly influences the soul.โ€ โ€” Wassily Kandinsky โค๏ธ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’™

Cold days have the clearest, bluest skies.
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โ€œAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.โ€ โ€” Leo Tolstoy ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›
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๐Ÿ”ด๐ŸŸ ๐Ÿ”˜๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŸก

โ€œDesign is thinking made visual.โ€ โ€” Saul Bass

Miami Beach Art Deco details

#ArtDecoMiami #MiamiBeachArtDeco #ArchitecturePhotography #DesignDetails
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โ€œThe same color evokes different meanings depending on context.โ€ โ€” Josef Albers ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค

Every time I photograph this building, it looks different. 

This is the Anamar, an artist/workforce housing building in Collins Park, Miami Beach, designed by @shulmandesign . 

Its palette draws from mangoes, sand, sky, clouds, and water! ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿฉต

#shulmandesign #shotoniphone #collinspark #miamibeach #beautyiseverywhere
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โ€œLight makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light.โ€ โ€” George Eastman ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿงก
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The more you look, the more you find.
(Lyrics by Olivia Dean โ€” Best New Artist Grammy ๐Ÿ†)
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โ€œThese old buildings do not belong to us only; they belonged to our forefathers, and they will belong to our descendants unless we play them false.โ€
โ€” William Morris, from an SPAB address (1889) ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›

Six more historic Art Deco gems in Miami Beach:

Lincolnโ€“Drexel Building
1001 Lincoln Road
Architect: Robert Little, 1937

Geneva Hotel
1520 Collins Avenue
Architect: not confirmed, 1953

Imperial Hotel
650 Ocean Drive
Architect: L. Murray Dixon, 1939

Leslie Hotel
1244 Ocean Drive
Architect: Albert Anis, 1937

Lynmar Hotel
735 Collins Avenue
Architect: Donald G. Smith, 1941

Majestic Hotel
660 Ocean Drive
Architect: Albert Anis, 1940

With thanks to @mdpl1976 for preserving Miami Beach Art Deco.

#ArtDeco
#MiamiArtDeco
#OceanDrive
#MiamiArchitecture
#DesignLovers
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