Some luxury condos borrow a few ideas from five-star hotels. This nearly $18 million Sky Villa in Sunny Isles Beach went considerably further and brought in the people who actually design them.
Meyer Davis, the internationally known design studio whose hospitality portfolio includes projects for Four Seasons, Rosewood, Auberge Resorts and 1 Hotels, designed the interiors of the sprawling residence at Jade Signature.
Here, the studio’s polished hospitality aesthetic has been translated into a private home measuring more than 6,500 square feet.
And the pedigree doesn’t stop at the front door.
Jade Signature itself was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, putting the Sky Villa inside one of Sunny Isles Beach’s most architecturally distinctive oceanfront towers.
Now listed for $17.995 million with Devin Kay of The Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman, the six-bedroom residence can also be purchased fully furnished and turnkey.
The scale is immediately apparent inside.
Rather than the proportions typically associated with even a large condominium, the Sky Villa unfolds across a dramatic flow-through floor plan with ceilings soaring approximately 20 feet overhead.
Floor-to-ceiling glass takes advantage of that height, opening the residence to unobstructed 180-degree views. On one side is the Atlantic Ocean; elsewhere, the outlook reaches across the Intracoastal Waterway toward Downtown Miami.
That exposure gives the home a different atmosphere depending on the time of day, with ocean light pouring in from one direction and the Miami skyline illuminating the opposite view after dark.
It’s also what helps the residence feel closer in scale to a standalone waterfront mansion than a conventional condo.
The main living spaces are expansive, but Meyer Davis didn’t simply create one enormous open room and call it a day.
The floor plan includes a family room, den and private study, allowing everyday life to spread into a series of distinct spaces.
The primary suite gets similar treatment.
Rather than functioning solely as a bedroom and bath, it incorporates its own private sitting room, creating a more substantial owners’ quarters removed from the home’s larger gathering areas.
There are six bedrooms altogether, providing ample room for family and guests, while separate service quarters acknowledge the practical realities of maintaining a residence of this size.
One of the smaller details might also be one of the most telling: there’s a midnight bar. It’s precisely the kind of feature that reveals the hospitality influence behind the interiors.
The idea isn’t simply to make the home look like a luxury hotel, but to borrow some of the conveniences and rituals associated with staying in one.
That distinction is central to Meyer Davis’ approach here.
The New York-based studio has spent years designing hotels, resorts, restaurants and residences around the world, developing interiors that need to look polished while still surviving the realities of daily use. At Jade Signature, that experience has been applied to a private residence where the owners, rather than hotel guests, get the run of the place.
The Sky Villa’s location adds another major architectural name to the equation.
Herzog & de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architecture firm, designed Jade Signature as an oceanfront tower with a strong connection between its interiors, terraces and beachfront setting.
For the Sky Villa, that means Meyer Davis’ interiors sit within an architectural framework conceived by one of the world’s best-known contemporary design firms.
And unlike buying an unfinished trophy residence and embarking on a lengthy interior-design project afterward, this one can come ready to inhabit.
The home is being offered with the option to purchase it completely turnkey, preserving the fully realized Meyer Davis interiors rather than leaving the next owner to recreate the look room by room.
That’s an increasingly meaningful distinction at the highest end of Miami’s residential market, where elaborate custom interiors can involve years of design, sourcing, fabrication and installation before a newly purchased property actually feels finished.
Here, the architecture, furnishings and interior design have already been considered as a whole.
The result is a Miami residence that occupies an interesting middle ground: the privacy and space of a substantial home, the elevated vantage point of a Sky Villa, and interiors informed by the same studio responsible for some of the luxury hospitality world’s most recognizable spaces.
Only this time, there aren’t any other guests checking in.
The six-bedroom Sky Villa at Jade Signature in Sunny Isles Beach is listed for $17.995 million with Devin Kay of The Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman.
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