travel42 Hotel Review: W Miami

W Miami travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Facing the fierce commercial leader, JW Marriott Marquis from across the Miami River, near the less madcap EPIC Hotel, this joint venture involving style icon Philippe Starck and Kelly Wearstler is a design tour-de-force with a daring aesthetic that pairs a lexicon of midcentury styles with 21st-century sensibilities.

Like a Jackson Pollock canvas, the designers' handiwork is riveting, though Ms. Wearstler's layering creates looks that run the gamut from ...