Collins Avenue south of Dade County has the sharpest hotels in America. The Delano, Philippe Starck's 1995 Art Deco rework, closed in 2020 and returned in March 2026 as the fulcrum of South Beach cool again. Everything about it is a restatement: the bungalows, the Rose Bar, the restaurants, the glass apples in each room. South Beach finally looks like South Beach again.
Philippe Starck designed the Delano in the early 1990s and it opened in 1995 on Collins Avenue. The hotel became the blueprint for a certain kind of luxury for a generation. Not fussy. Not baroque. Stark white and minimalist and precisely lit. It was where the fashion shows came when they arrived in Miami. It was where people drank cocktails that actually tasted good. The lobby held you in a kind of trance.
The property closed for a full renovation in 2020. Ennismore, the London-based hospitality group, took it over and began the work of restoration. The renovation had a single mission: recover what made the Delano the Delano without asking it to live in 1995.
The rooms
One hundred seventy-one rooms and suites. The bungalows, which were outdoor garden structures, have been reimagined as sleek indoor-outdoor spaces with glass walls and direct pool access. Each room has the trademark glass apples Starck designed for the 1995 opening, now reimagined in hand-blown glass. The beds are modern without being trendy. The technology is current. Smartphone keys. In-room iPad concierges that actually function.
The bungalows, Delano Miami Beach. Wallpaper*
The Delano reopens not as nostalgia but as continuation. It is what cool South Beach has always claimed to be.
Isabelle RoweThe dining
Bianca is the new restaurant. Sam Robin designed it, the architect who created the interiors for Versace's American flagship stores. Italian cooking with a South Beach sensibility. Wood-grilled langoustines. Homemade truffle pasta. The bar has the correct proportions and the correct drinks. It is not serving people who need to be impressed.
Two Paris Society concepts open here for the first time outside Paris. Both are small. Both serve the hotel and the neighborhood. The intention is not to build a destination dining scene but to return the Delano to being a place where people want to stay, and eat well while they do.
The Rose Bar returns
The Rose Bar was legendary. It was the bar where conversations happened. It was the bar where you sat when you wanted to sit in a good bar. It has reopened with its original character intact. The pink neon. The precise lighting. The sense that you are inside a Starck drawing. Negronis and Manhattans. Drinks that taste like themselves.
The Delano reopens not as nostalgia but as continuation. The hotel is the same hotel that opened in 1995. It is the same white minimalism. It is the same precision of light. It is the same intention: to give South Beach what South Beach claims to want but rarely receives. Good taste without pretense. A bar that serves good drinks. Rooms that are pleasant to be in. A restaurant that feeds you well.
South Beach looks better. The Delano looks better. The fashion weeks that arrive in Miami Beach in the coming years will have a place that remembers what cool actually looked like.
The Splendid Edit was invited to tour the reopened Delano Miami Beach in March 2026. Standard rates start from approximately $350 per night. Bungalows from $550. Book through delano.com or through Ennismore properties.
Photography courtesy of Delano Miami Beach — © Ennismore Group