The Studio That Rewrote the Rules

Will Meyer and Gray Davis founded their eponymous studio in New York in 1999 with a singular conviction: that the most extraordinary spaces are those that feel inevitable. Not decorated — inhabited. Not styled — lived. In the two and a half decades since, Meyer Davis has become the defining voice of American luxury, creating interiors for the world's most celebrated hotels, restaurants, and private residences from the Caribbean to the Caspian.

Their portfolio reads like a passport stamped at the world's most coveted addresses — The Surfjack Hotel in Honolulu, the Carillon Miami Beach, the flagship Restoration Hardware galleries, and now, most ambitiously of all, the entirety of Delano Residences & Hotel Miami. The commission represents not just a collaboration, but a convergence: two icons — Meyer Davis and Delano — finding each other at precisely the right moment in history.

"We don't design rooms. We design the feeling of arriving home to a version of yourself you didn't know existed." — Will Meyer, Founder, Meyer Davis
Great Room designed by Meyer Davis
The Residence Great Room — an exercise in restrained opulence. Warm stone, custom millwork, and panoramic water views compose a space that is simultaneously monumental and intimate.

A Philosophy of Restraint

What strikes you first about a Meyer Davis interior is what isn't there. In an industry prone to excess — another chandelier, another statement wall, another layer of gilt — Meyer Davis consistently subtracts. The result is a rare form of spatial confidence: rooms that don't need to announce themselves because their quality speaks without raising its voice.

At Delano Residences, this philosophy manifests in materials selected with near-obsessive care. Travertine quarried from a single Italian hillside. Smoked oak millwork milled to tolerances measured in fractions of a millimeter. Bronze hardware patinated to the precise warmth of a late afternoon on South Beach. Every material is chosen not for what it signals, but for what it does — how it ages, how it sounds underfoot, how it looks in the particular quality of Florida light.

"The best interiors don't seduce you on first sight. They deepen — week by week, year by year — until you cannot imagine your life without them."

The Residences: A Private Vocabulary

Meyer Davis has created three distinct interior languages within the tower — one for the hotel floors, one for the Residences Collection (floors 32–65), and one for the ultra-rare Penthouse Collection above the clouds. While each speaks its own dialect, all three belong to the same family: warm, textural, luminous, and deeply unhurried.

The Residences Collection

Beginning at the 32nd floor, the Residences Collection is defined by open-plan living spaces that treat Miami's perpetual horizon as their primary design element. Floor-to-ceiling glazing spans entire elevations, framing views of Biscayne Bay, the Atlantic, and the glittering city below as living art. Meyer Davis's furniture program — a mix of custom pieces and carefully sourced vintage — anchors each residence in a sense of collected, personal history.

Primary Bathroom, Residences Collection
The Primary Bathroom of a Residences Collection unit — a study in stone and light. Honed Calacatta marble meets polished chrome fixtures and a freestanding soaking tub positioned to frame the bay.

The Collection Penthouses

Above the 65th floor, the Collection Penthouses represent the summit of Meyer Davis's ambition for the project. Here, ceiling heights extend to twelve feet. Custom stone fireplace surrounds anchor the great rooms. Private terraces — some exceeding 2,000 square feet — dissolve the boundary between inside and the extraordinary Miami sky. These are not merely apartments. They are private houses suspended in the clouds.

Collection Great Room by Day
The Collection Great Room in afternoon light. Custom furniture, bespoke stone detailing, and a commanding corner view compose the most desirable living space in the Americas.

The Hotel: A Stage for the World

If the residences are Meyer Davis in contemplative mode, the hotel floors represent the studio at full theatrical volume. The lobby — accessed via a double-height porte-cochere clad in hammered bronze and travertine — is conceived as a room that operates at every hour, transforming from a morning salon to an afternoon gallery to an evening stage as Miami's light shifts across it.

The Rose Bar — that most mythologized of Miami institutions — receives its most spectacular incarnation yet. Positioned on an elevated podium with unobstructed views across South Beach and the Atlantic, the bar's programming reimagines the original spirit of the Delano: a place where the world's most interesting people are inexplicably, reliably, present.

The Sum of All Parts

What Meyer Davis has achieved at Delano Residences & Hotel Miami is something rarer than beautiful rooms — they have created a coherent world. A place with its own logic, its own tempo, its own sensibility. A place where the materials, the proportions, the light, and the views conspire to produce a particular quality of consciousness: alert, calm, elevated, and alive to beauty in ways that ordinary life rarely allows.

The supertall tower is, in the end, just architecture. What Meyer Davis has added is soul.