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• Sea View Hotel Comfortable and reason-

store nor supermarket in sight, the Bal
Harbour Shops is a playground for
socialites, fashionistas and celebrities,
chock-full from end to end of the most
innovative and esteemed shops: Gucci,
Prada, Hermes, Jimmy Choo and the
just-opened Tory Burch among them.
Many, like Dolce & Gabbana, Louis
Vuitton and Roberto Cavalli, chose Bal
Harbour for their first venture outside
of New York. And in 1971, Whitman
convinced Stanley Marcus of Neiman
Marcus to open its first-ever location
outside of Texas. Just two weeks after
opening, unprecedented sales prompted
plans to expand. Now 88, Whitman still
runs the show with his son and grand-
son, who worked for a period as a leasing
agent for the Taubman Company, head-
quartered in Bloomfield Hills. Explains
Whitman, "My sole interest was in qual-
ity merchants that could perform well in
a tourist market." ❑

able, this resort hotel, built in 1947, is situated

directly on the pristine sands of the Atlantic

coast. Laze in a poolside cabana between

dips in the palm tree-shaded, Olympic-sized

pool. Some of the 220 guest rooms are still

owned by families of the original guests who

made the hotel their winter vacation home.

Seaview-hoteLcom

•Regent Bal Harbour Slated to open this win-

ter, the ultra-luxurious Regent is the first new

Top: Tucked between the Atlantic Ocean
(shown) and the Biscayne Bay, Bal
Harbour Village was originally called
Bay Harbour, but the planning commit-
tee invented a new name that combined
letters from both "bay" and "Atlantic."
Above: Luxuriate at the Regent Bal
Harbour's Guerlain Spa, scheduled to
open this winter. Left: Scoop up classic,
quintessentially British shirts for women
and men at Thomas Pink (shown) or
check out recent additions to the Bal
Harbour Shops, including Intermix, Emilio
Pucci, Chloe and Marc Jacobs.

hotel built in Bal Harbour Village in nearly 50

years. Details in mahogany, granite and leather

exude a modern but elegant serenity. Don't miss

the 10,000-square-foot L'Institut de Guerlain

Spa, where treatments include Vichy body treat-

ments and a foot-therapy lounge overlooking a

water vista. Regenthotels.com

• St. Regis Resort & Residences Projected

to open in May 2011 where the recently closed

Sheraton once stood. Stregisresidences.com

platinum •

SEPTEMBER 2007 •

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