4500 Prairie Ave.

4500 Prairie Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33140

You know Miami Beach even if you’ve never been to Miami Beach. It’s the picture postcard of a Florida vacation, and it accounts for more than half of all tourist visits to Miami-Dade County. They come for the ocean breezes and beautiful (and often topless) beaches, the legendary luxury lifestyle, the streets and clubs and stores and restaurants crowded with the world’s beautiful people. It’s set apart from Miami by Biscayne Bay, and set apart from the world by sheer attitude. But there are other parts of Miami Beach you may not know from ’80s TV and paparazzi magazines. It’s a refined life enjoyed in high-rises and lush, gated enclaves, a heaven-on-earth bound by museums and marinas, by trends in food and fashion and art that won’t make it to the rest of the world for years. It’s a vibrant kind of town — sun-kissed and figuratively clad in Caribbean pastels and crisp white linen.