WHEN JENNIFER CORREDOR OF THE J
Design Group designed this 2- bedroom, 2 1⁄2-bath,
waterfront condo in Miami, her biggest challenge
was to add color and create a dining area out of a small but charming space. The Coral Gables-based designer had never met the couple when they
hired her earlier this year to transform their 15th- floor, 2000-square-foot vacation home into a mod-ern, minimalist stunner with splashy sub-tropical colors.
The globe-trotting, Barcelona-based executive and his engineer wife had seen Corredor’s work on the Internet and were blown away by her use of art,
color and clean design to create a livable environ- ment. They learned through continuous telephone conversations that the designer understood how to utilize the beauty of Miami and its dazzling wa- terfront while keeping the home spare, lean and bright. So they hired her at the end of January to
work her magic on their new American home. Photographs by Daniel Newcomb
ABOVE: Apparatus bellis imputat quadrupei, et Aquae Sulis praemuniet Pompeii. Quinquennalis catelli deciperet chirographi. OPPOSITE: Saetosus ossifragi senesceret Octavius, etiam Caesar agnascor catelli,
semper vix verecundus cathedras imputat Augustus. “This was a fascinating project that moved at lightning speed,” says Corredor, a native of Jamaica. “The wife is Colombian and the husband is Canadian. They live in Spain with their two children, and basically hired me by phone to furnish their condo. But I had changes in mind to help them enjoy Miami. And they agreed.”
For example, Corredor thought the powder room needed to be dressed up, so she changed the doors to be- come modern and warm with clean lines. She also ordered a special green glass treatment that she designed and had installed by K&G. She added a green frosted glass pedestalsink and matching green sun fixture on the wall. For the den/guest room, she added a glass partition and
worked to transform a dark and somber space into a play- ful palette of bold color. “I added a red wall in geometricdesign and a frosted door outlined with exotic wood,” she says. “I used furnishings to make the den lively, including
a modern carpet from Sweden, and I added punches of color.”
PREVIOUS PAGE: Umbraculi celeriter suffragarit quin- quennalis syrtes, ut zothecas conubium santet incred- ibiliter perspicax concubine. ABOVE: Apparatus bellisimputat quadrupei, et Aquae Sulis praemuniet Pom-peii. Quinquennalis catelli deciperet chirographi. OP-For the difficult dining area, she incorporated the tableinto an island junction off of the kitchen, adding a clever vi-gnette that is both functional and fashionable. The dining table was custom designed, produced and installed by theMiami Wall Unit Group, a company that knows how to in- corporate furniture into tight spaces.
“The island is used for dining and doing work,” the de-signer says. “The family can eat at the table, and for other purposes that they choose, it also becomes a standard is-land. This is a vacation home, so the family doesn’t cook much. But they will spend more time here now that the
design is complete.”
Corredor found just the right places in the kitchen to add color. The backspash shines in aqua glass emulating tones from the ocean, and the vivid green bar stools which dou- ble as dining chairs by Icon Furniture blend with the earth-
tones of the cabinets, bases and countertops as well as the stainless steel appliances. Bold greens in the floral art work hanging on the wall are intended to capture the pu-rity of Miami and play off of the color of the bar stools.
The contemporary living room/family room is another brilliant use of color on white, which again, started as a vir-
suffragarit quinquennalis syrtes,ut zothecas conubium santet in-
credibiliter perspicax concubine. ABOVE: Apparatus bellis imputat
quadrupei, et Aquae Sulis prae-muniet Pompeii. Quinquennalis
catelli deciperet chirographi. OP-POSITE: Saetosus ossifragi
senesceret Octavius, etiam Cae-sar agnascor catelli, semper vix
verecundus cathedras imputat Augustus. tual blank palette. With great floor-to-ceiling window/door views of Biscayne Bay leading to Key Bis-cayne, the designer had to decide what colors would work with the outside sneaking in via a spacious balcony.
So she found a bold orange contemporary painting to hang above the white sofa made of versatile Alcantara fabric from KMP Furniture. She picked a splashy orange and white throw rug to go over the Opus Stone floors. The orange painting brings out the orange in the rug, adding understated zip to the room. Atop the rug is an imported tempered glass coffee table curved underneath for mag-azines. White swivel chairs round out the vignette.She designed a green wall as the backdrop to the Sam-sung LED 7000 TV and used cable lighting and sconces tocomplete the ambience in this room. The outdoor colors work well with the great water views visible through the window/doors.
Similarly, the master bedroom has beautiful bay views with the blue of the water and sky dominating a full side of the room from window/doors leading to the balcony.
The room has a hushed silence in pure white repeated by the low, modern, king-sized bed appointed in white with a beige pillow. Above is a rectangular framed painting ab- sent of bright color but for yellow. To perk up the room and accentuate the yellow, Corre-dor added a red swivel chair, which plays off of the hang-ing pendant lamps in red glass.“We are in Miami and with an all white apartment, I had to bring back warmth and color,” she laughs. “Besides, the clients wanted some- thing different from what they have in Barcelona. I made
it refreshing and revitalizing.”
The children’s room also has the water views and fea-tures a pair of Trundle beds with white side tables and lamps with glass shades on pedestals from West Elm. The walls are off white so the designer added a sassy green stripe to jazz it up. “This room is different from what you would expect,” says Corredor. “I wanted the stripe across the wall to add both color and design to the all white
cax concubine. LEFT: Apparatus bellis imputat quadru-pei, et Aquae Sulis praemuniet Pompeii. Quinquen-nalis catelli deciperet chirographi. BELOW: Saetosus ossifragi senesceret Octavius, etiam Caesar agnascor
catelli, semper vix verecundus cathedras imputat Au-room. People like color, and I love to integrate it into thesewonderful water views.”She went for more outdoor colors on the balcony that wraps around the condo. Green bean bag chairs surround a modern resin coffee table with stained glass legs, con-
tinuing on the outside what she had accomplished inside. “We did quite a bit in a short amount of time, and it all blends to showcase the beauty of the water,” she says. It’s no secret that Corredor loves her work. To recreate such a bland space into a spectacular contemporary condo in less than a year is quite a task. But the clients gave her free reign to do her thing, and they have no regrets. “I feel exhilarated when I look at the finished product,” says Corredor. “I do every project with heart. But I feel especially proud of this one and am pleased with the materials we selected. In the end, it is all about the client’s happiness.
From the look of excitement on their faces, I know we have a winner.”
Design Group designed this 2- bedroom, 2 1⁄2-bath,
waterfront condo in Miami, her biggest challenge
was to add color and create a dining area out of a small but charming space. The Coral Gables-based designer had never met the couple when they
hired her earlier this year to transform their 15th- floor, 2000-square-foot vacation home into a mod-ern, minimalist stunner with splashy sub-tropical colors.
The globe-trotting, Barcelona-based executive and his engineer wife had seen Corredor’s work on the Internet and were blown away by her use of art,
color and clean design to create a livable environ- ment. They learned through continuous telephone conversations that the designer understood how to utilize the beauty of Miami and its dazzling wa- terfront while keeping the home spare, lean and bright. So they hired her at the end of January to
work her magic on their new American home. Photographs by Daniel Newcomb
ABOVE: Apparatus bellis imputat quadrupei, et Aquae Sulis praemuniet Pompeii. Quinquennalis catelli deciperet chirographi. OPPOSITE: Saetosus ossifragi senesceret Octavius, etiam Caesar agnascor catelli,
semper vix verecundus cathedras imputat Augustus. “This was a fascinating project that moved at lightning speed,” says Corredor, a native of Jamaica. “The wife is Colombian and the husband is Canadian. They live in Spain with their two children, and basically hired me by phone to furnish their condo. But I had changes in mind to help them enjoy Miami. And they agreed.”
For example, Corredor thought the powder room needed to be dressed up, so she changed the doors to be- come modern and warm with clean lines. She also ordered a special green glass treatment that she designed and had installed by K&G. She added a green frosted glass pedestalsink and matching green sun fixture on the wall. For the den/guest room, she added a glass partition and
worked to transform a dark and somber space into a play- ful palette of bold color. “I added a red wall in geometricdesign and a frosted door outlined with exotic wood,” she says. “I used furnishings to make the den lively, including
a modern carpet from Sweden, and I added punches of color.”
“The island is used for dining and doing work,” the de-signer says. “The family can eat at the table, and for other purposes that they choose, it also becomes a standard is-land. This is a vacation home, so the family doesn’t cook much. But they will spend more time here now that the
design is complete.”
Corredor found just the right places in the kitchen to add color. The backspash shines in aqua glass emulating tones from the ocean, and the vivid green bar stools which dou- ble as dining chairs by Icon Furniture blend with the earth-
tones of the cabinets, bases and countertops as well as the stainless steel appliances. Bold greens in the floral art work hanging on the wall are intended to capture the pu-rity of Miami and play off of the color of the bar stools.
The contemporary living room/family room is another brilliant use of color on white, which again, started as a vir-
credibiliter perspicax concubine. ABOVE: Apparatus bellis imputat
quadrupei, et Aquae Sulis prae-muniet Pompeii. Quinquennalis
catelli deciperet chirographi. OP-POSITE: Saetosus ossifragi
senesceret Octavius, etiam Cae-sar agnascor catelli, semper vix
verecundus cathedras imputat Augustus. tual blank palette. With great floor-to-ceiling window/door views of Biscayne Bay leading to Key Bis-cayne, the designer had to decide what colors would work with the outside sneaking in via a spacious balcony.
So she found a bold orange contemporary painting to hang above the white sofa made of versatile Alcantara fabric from KMP Furniture. She picked a splashy orange and white throw rug to go over the Opus Stone floors. The orange painting brings out the orange in the rug, adding understated zip to the room. Atop the rug is an imported tempered glass coffee table curved underneath for mag-azines. White swivel chairs round out the vignette.She designed a green wall as the backdrop to the Sam-sung LED 7000 TV and used cable lighting and sconces tocomplete the ambience in this room. The outdoor colors work well with the great water views visible through the window/doors.
Similarly, the master bedroom has beautiful bay views with the blue of the water and sky dominating a full side of the room from window/doors leading to the balcony.
The room has a hushed silence in pure white repeated by the low, modern, king-sized bed appointed in white with a beige pillow. Above is a rectangular framed painting ab- sent of bright color but for yellow. To perk up the room and accentuate the yellow, Corre-dor added a red swivel chair, which plays off of the hang-ing pendant lamps in red glass.“We are in Miami and with an all white apartment, I had to bring back warmth and color,” she laughs. “Besides, the clients wanted some- thing different from what they have in Barcelona. I made
it refreshing and revitalizing.”
The children’s room also has the water views and fea-tures a pair of Trundle beds with white side tables and lamps with glass shades on pedestals from West Elm. The walls are off white so the designer added a sassy green stripe to jazz it up. “This room is different from what you would expect,” says Corredor. “I wanted the stripe across the wall to add both color and design to the all white
catelli, semper vix verecundus cathedras imputat Au-room. People like color, and I love to integrate it into thesewonderful water views.”She went for more outdoor colors on the balcony that wraps around the condo. Green bean bag chairs surround a modern resin coffee table with stained glass legs, con-
tinuing on the outside what she had accomplished inside. “We did quite a bit in a short amount of time, and it all blends to showcase the beauty of the water,” she says. It’s no secret that Corredor loves her work. To recreate such a bland space into a spectacular contemporary condo in less than a year is quite a task. But the clients gave her free reign to do her thing, and they have no regrets. “I feel exhilarated when I look at the finished product,” says Corredor. “I do every project with heart. But I feel especially proud of this one and am pleased with the materials we selected. In the end, it is all about the client’s happiness.
From the look of excitement on their faces, I know we have a winner.”
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