An Architect’s Party Palace Hits the Market in Miami Beach for $33 Million
On a December afternoon, architect Chad Oppenheim served drinks to about 100 guests on the stone motor court of his roughly 8,000-square-foot home in Miami Beach, Fla.
Partygoers faced a 23-foot-tall covered courtyard entry, shrouded in a large curtain. Drums began to beat.
When the curtains opened, the guests passed through the courtyard into a darkened living and dining room filled with candles. They pulled back a second curtain to reveal an opera singer gliding toward them in a gondola on Biscayne Bay. Stepping out of the boat, she serenaded them.
The event, a fundraiser for the Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami Beach, was one of many bashes Oppenheim has thrown at the house.
The property has hosted parties for a Netflix documentary release and brands like Audi and Ferrari, and served as a set in the 2006 movie “Miami Vice.” When it rained during his daughter’s 3rd birthday party, Oppenheim said, he brought the bouncy house inside the open-plan living and dining room, along with real ponies dressed up as unicorns with pink and blue manes, he said.
According The Wall Street Journal
