As you know, I’m involved in an amazing loft project on south Collins Avenue, with direct access to the beach. We’re talking a place with a beautiful, historic lobby, and amazing two-story lofts, each one unique. One very important person already owns one penthouse and is turning it into an even more stunning showplace. I’ll be ready to tell you more about the project soon, I promise.

 But first, the news about the designer who has been chosen for the project. She’s a local gal, if you allow that she was born in Jamaica and grew up in Barbados and went to the Rhode Island School of Design before settling here. You have surely been in one of her most famous projects, the steakhouse Prime One Twelve and its cousin Prime Italian. Alison Antrobus (I can never hear her name without thinking of the Thornton Wilder play, “The Skin of Our Teeth,” which stars Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus as Adam and Eve figures) is not just a design whiz who does sexy private homes and seductive restaurants, she is also the practical gal who invented the Antrobus handbag, which has drawers instead of zipper pouches. You know how your keys and pens and cell phones always end up in the bottom of your bag? With her drawer system, everything is visible and in its place.

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You can find Antrobus handbags online at http://www.antrobusluxurygroup.com/. And if you want the inside scoop on what else is happening here in Miami, just write me at Sildy@sildycervera.com.

See ya,

Sildy