Based in Miami, Fort Partners is a privately owned, fully integrated development company, led by developer and entrepreneur Nadim Ashi. With a focus on historic preservation, architecture, design and sustainability, Fort Partners is committed to delivering the highest standards of quality. Assets include: Norman’s Cay in the Bahamas; Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach; and The Surf Club Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, Surfside, Florida. Fort Partners is adding to its portfolio Four Seasons Private Residences Fort Lauderdale. For Four Seasons Private Residences Fort Lauderdale, Nadim Ashi curated a global design team to create a beachfront address with a foundation of style and service.
British designer Tara Bernerd’s signature aesthetic of texture and color will create a welcoming sense of warmth in the Hotel’s public areas, rooms and suites. Bernerd is the founder of Tara Bernerd & Partners, a leading international interior architecture and design practice launched in 2002. She heads up a London-based team of highly trained architects and designers. Bernerd’s business interests continue to grow, and she has been working increasingly on a global platform with projects in New York, Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Switzerland. Key clients include Starwood Capital, Thompson Hotels, SIXTY Hotels, Blackstone, Berkeley Group, Grosvenor Asia and Asia Standard, plus select private clients.
The culinary experience at Four Seasons Private Residences Fort Lauderdale will come to life with restaurants, lounges and pool areas imagined by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio. The studio was founded in London by Martin Brudnizki in 2000, and a further New York Studio was established in 2012 with U.S. business partner Craig Harvey. The studio now employs more than seventy staff between its two locations and is known around the world for bringing a lived-in, luxurious feel to high-glamour projects, alongside creating commercially successful design concepts for restaurant and retail groups. Brudnizki is regularly listed among House & Garden’s Top 100 Interior Designers and the London Evening Standard’s Power 1000, while the studio’s designs have received notable recognition, including accolades from Wallpaper*, Tatler, Harper’s Bazaar and the European Hotel Design Awards.
Celebrated landscape designer Fernando Wong envisions lush, tropical landscapes that envelope the Four Seasons pool terrace and enhance the entire property. This native of Panama founded his own landscape architecture firm, Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design, in Miami Beach in 2005. Since that time, Wong has opened another office in Palm Beach and handled residential and commercial projects in the Hamptons and all over the United States, as well as in England and Panama. The company has won prestigious design awards and has been featured in countless magazines, newspapers and television shows.
For more than two decades, Kobi Karp has been providing unique, creative and innovative design solutions to renowned clients in hospitality, retail and high-rise residential developments. Based in Miami, Karp has designed properties worldwide, including in the Caribbean, the Far East, the Black Sea region and the Middle East. He is an award-winning member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Society of Interior Designs (ASID).