Unshaven in casual pants and a long-sleeved collarless shirt, with a New York accent and a forthright warmth, he defies the image of a cultivated connoisseur. Today, Sunbeam Broadcasting operates WSVN Channel 7 Miami and WHDH Channel 7 Boston, two of the most prominent stations in the country. Its clear that this mans priority is buying and looking at the art he loves. Currently, they have over a billion dollars in ground-up construction projects, all in various stages of development. CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs His most recent projects include the Owensboro Medical Health System, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center and Aventura Optima Plaza. Ratner was also this years recipient of GLAADS Ally Award. Pats wife, Chris Riley serves as a part of the Jackson Memorial Foundation Board for the Miami Heat Charitable Fund. Their top location picks include exclusive oceanfront homes and condos on Fisher Island, Sunset Island, Golden Beach, La Gorce and Indian Creek Island. Phillip & Patricia Frost He got the collecting bug after attending an auction. offices of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, a private-equity firm. Keith Menin INDUSTRY: Medical, Real Estate He has been openly critical of the Prez Art Museum Miami, for receiving millions in tax dollars rather than relying solely on private contributors. Rick De La Croix Instead, he will sell his collection to help provide for his four grown children and to benefit the underprivileged. Southern Florida He also has his own record label I am Other, which has showcased local Miami music sensation Cris Cab and Frank Ocean. Carlos and Rosa De La Cruz Wolfingtons Charitable Foundation aids the poor and enables bright futures for children through sports and the arts. INDUSTRY: Hospitality Orlando Museums Longtime Chief Curator Departs as Basquiat Investigation Continues. Marcus Margulies and his family saw their wealth rise by 20 million to 135 million according to the 2018 Sunday Times Rich List, which placed the Bond Street luxury watch legend at 862= out of the 1000 people tracked in the report. She is a powerhouse fundraiser for at-risk youth, a businesswoman with her own handbag and skin care line and a star on The Real Housewives of Miami. Every year, the Blacks host their very own gala to raise money for the Consequences Program. Along with his 38 million albums sold worldwide, he took his artistry further by opening his boutique creative firm, Kravitz Design in 2003, which specializes in interior design. We have a tremendous amount of work, says Martin of his holdings, which run the gamut from paintings and sculptures by Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella to photography by Walker Evans and installations by Barry McGee and Ernesto Neto. Art is about learning and educating yourself, Margulies once said, and he applies that belief to himself as a collector. In previous years, Marco Selva achieved the AAAs coveted five diamond star rating under his management for the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne as well as the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove. CATEGORY: Originators Williams won his latest award earlier this year for Best Urban Contemporary Album for his production of Frank Oceans Channel Orange. INDUSTRY: Real Estate/Philanthropy 1 rankings in the world for both its Lamborghini Miami and Prestige Audi dealership; there is no small feat for this young entrepreneur. He has helped finance two major Miami condominium towers alongside Miami Terra Group 900 Biscayne and Quantum on the Bay. Industry : Real Estate He serves on the University of Miamis Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee. The third most winningest coach and an impressive list of accomplishments earned Riley a spot in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Michael Schwartz INDUSTRY: Banking Lorena is a fixture on the social scene and a generous supporter of charitable causes in the community. His buildings, each with its own flair, dot the South Florida landscape some coming to be known as neighborhood landmarks. Most recently, Roman Jones has acquired Club Space, independent of the Opium Group. He is also launching his TV channel Revolt, which will feature music videos, live performances, music news and interviews. Its a big collection put together with love and with scholarly enterprise.. I was starting a real-estate business and I bought a couple of modern prints by Chagall and Picasso and one thing led to another, Margulies said in a recent interview. Partnerships with Philippe Starck, Katsuya Uechi and Jose Andres have propelled Nazarians SLS brand which is expanding into Seattle and Las Vegas. INDUSTRY: Real Estate Company: Southern Wine & Spirits of The 50-work Sothebys sale by taxi-fleet owner Scull is widely considered the first major single-owner contemporary art auction held with jaw-dropping and record prices, including Willem de Koonings Abstract Expressionist masterpiecePolice Gazettefrom 1955 that fetched a then-record (yes!) CATEGORY: Thinker Contemporary Art Photographs Private Collection Painting. He was inducted into the Hope Stout Society in 2008 and named one of the Twelve Good Men by the Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Florida in 2010. Loren & JR Ridinger INDUSTRY: Yachting Alejandro Sanz Philip Levine I just dont relate to that stuff. This group is behind the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, EPIC Hotel and Residences and many international resort properties. INDUSTRY: Art at the Warehouse Nelson Fox It carried a blue-chip provenance, formerly in the collection of Chicagoan Robert B. Mayer, a founding member of the citys Museum of Contemporary Art. Her generosity is not limited to southern Florida, large donations in the northeast include $10 million to New Yorks Lincoln Center, $5 million to the Kennedy Center and $5 million to the Atlantic Council for a new center on Latin America in Washington D.C. Edmund Ansin What Makes him Haute : In 2000 Levine sold On Board Media, a company he started in 1990 with only $500 in capital, to LVMH. He is currently in the running for the Miami Beach Convention Center Master Plan project, for which he has tapped two additional internationally renowned architecture firms, Rem Koolhaas Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Snhetta. CATEGORY: Power Couples Al and Shareef Malnik The Margulies Collection. WHAT MAKES hiM HAUTE: The Miami Heat forward, dubbed King James has cemented himself as one of the greatest players in NBA history. Seikaly also played for the Miami HEAT. Last night, I went to David Zwirner and I bought a couple of Anni Albers prints. The couple is a huge supporter of the arts, evidenced by their recordbreaking $33 million donation to the University of Miami that led to finance the Frost School of Music. CATEGORY: Entrepreneur What Makes him Haute : Regarded as one of the most successful gallery owners in the United States and Latin America, Nader has played an integral role in the formation of Miamis growing presence in the art world. Company: 1111 Lincoln/MTV Latin America Flexible booking options on most hotels. While based in Miami as a franchise, the firm has achieved national and international recognition in the area of franchising by representing clients throughout the world including Mexico, France, Holland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He has invested and earmarked millions for charities for, as he puts it, the "disenfranchised," the homeless and others who have suffered misfortunes. Howard Lorber WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: He made a name for himself as one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the country, representing superstar athletes, political pundits and Hollywood celebrities. Norman Wedderburn Company: Worldwide Entertainment and Key Principal: MARTIN Z MARGULIES See more contacts Industry: Charitable organization. What Makes Them Haute : Shes the Queen Of Latin Pop, has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, and has won seven Grammy Awards. CATEGORY: Thinkers WHAT MAKES hiM HAUTE: Henderson is the President & CEO of Ferretti Group America, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of luxury yachts with brands such as Ferretti, Pershing, Riva and CRN. What Makes Them Haute : Oscar and Ellen Feldenkreis are involved in numerous national and civic causes including the Kosher Food Bank, United Way and the YPO/WPO Organization. David Edelstein He also enjoys mixing with people in the art world the artists, the gallery owners, the dealers, the collectors and assorted characters. South Beach Group Oscar & Ellen Feldenkreis Kravitz also appeared in a supporting role in the critically-acclaimed film Precious, for which he received a 2010 NAACP and was casted in 2012s top grossing film The Hunger Games.. CATEGORY: Philanthropists The sale of works collected by Robert C. Scull at Sothebys in 1973 represents a historic momentthe first time contemporary art came to the auction block in a grand fashion. ESL Investments Company: Terra Group Dave Grutman Company: South Beach Investment Realty, Now Philip Levine is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Media Partners (RMP), the exclusive onboard media and port shopping partner of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. INDUSTRY: Construction INDUSTRY: Nightlife Then theres Martin Margulies the art collector. Company: HSI Productions CATEGORY: Thinkers INDUSTRY: Design CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs Next on the agenda is Mexico, Motives for La La, in collaboration with La La Anthony which provides products for women of every shade; and Meeton.com, a social video streaming concept where subscribers can interact via live-video with A-list celebrities and public figures through multi-platform integration. Category : Entrepreneur WHAT MAKES hiM HAUTE: Along with his brother, Murphy founded the Coastal family of companies, which includes Coastal Construction, Coastal Condominiums, Coastal Interiors, and Coastal Homes. And while he has bequested money $5 million to the Whitney, $5 million to the Met he doesnt plan to have his art given to museums after hes gone. What Makes him Haute : Hes the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation, which includes Sears, Kenmore, Lands End, and Kmart, which he helped to rebuild after bankruptcy. He was even invited to display his iconic works of art at the Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. Among several current exhibitions on view now is one celebrating the 15th anniversary of the space. Lenny Kravitz What Makes Them Haute : Micky weighs in as Florida's wealthiest resident with an estimated net worth of $5.7 billion. And Martin is still acquiring. Prior to working at the Bal Harbour Shops, he worked for a New York real estate broker and Detroit-based real estate developer. From there, things moved fastboth his net worth and his collection soared. What Makes him Haute : Marco Selva is St. Regis Bal Harbour Resorts General Manager. "It's a collection of my external and internal experiences in my . Margulies bought the oversized work at Christies New York in November 1995 for $310,500. CATEGORY: Athletes CATEGORY: entrepreneurs Company: RC Aluminum Industries Mr. Margulies is one of several private collectors who dominate Miamis art scene; the others include Norman Braman, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Donald and Mera Rubell and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. MMG deals with full-service, experiential marketing platforms for everything from red carpet events to the hottest nightclubs around. Or order this issue, to receive a regular printed copy of this weeks Miami Today. INDUSTRY: Philanthrophy Company: Miami Marketing Group The Martin Z. Margulies Foundation is a non-profit that is focused on presenting exhibitions and educational programs. Company: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Company: Rubell Family Collection Industry Art Gisela, a hospitality guru in her own right, launched a home improvement system aptly named The Glow System. What Makes him Haute : Zarcos firm, Zarco Einhorn Salkowski & Brito P.A. Sinai Hospital Founders, MTV Staying Alive, The Broward House, and Style Saves. After moving to Miami and getting in on the ground floor of the burgeoning citys real estate market, he started collecting in the 1970s. Engin Yesil ARTnews is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Kiefers sprawling and darkly overwhelming installationGeheimnis der Farne (Secret of the Ferns)a work from 2007 consisting of 48 paintings executed in clay, ferns, and emulsion along with a trio of 50,000-pound concrete sculptures that resemble Holocaust gas chambersstands as a capstone to the collectors vision. If Mr. Margulies were to sell some of the approximately 4,000 pieces he has amassed over more than 30 years of collecting by de Kooning, Eliasson, Flavin, Noguchi, Segal, Serra he might be a richer man than he has already become as a real estate developer. The couples additional donation to Florida International University resulted in a renaming of the schools art museum, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Company: Related Group The accomplished businessman and humanitarian is also the youngest developer of luxury high-rise residential and condo-hotel developments in the United States. INDUSTRY: Finance CATEGORY: Thinkers Its a curiosity that Martin has passed on to Elizabeth, who is blazing her own trail in New York as an art adviser, working with young collectors and up-and-coming artists. Martin was raised in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights. Recently, David was honored as Man of the Year at Driving Force II, an annual fundraising event for children with life-threatening diseases. The Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide umbrella includes Bad Boy Records, Sean John and Sean by Sean Combs clothing lines, a movie production company, Ciroc Vodka and two restaurants. Company: Romero Britto A lot of people like to see their names on buildings, he said. Pearl Harbour, Transformers and Pain & Gain, which was filmed in Miami, are among his list of credits, and each film is loaded with his acclaimed special brand of over-the-top effects. He is a director of London soccer team Tottenham Hotspur F.C. ALEXTPHOTO.COM EWM/THE MARGULIES COLLECTION AT THE WAREHOUSE, MIAMI. By 1980, Margulies had acquired a major and rare painting from Joan Mir's famed "Constellation" series, "Femme dans la nuit" (Woman of the Night), 1940, which had been in the . You get knowledge from people like that, he says. He has won FIUs Hospitality School Torchbearer Award and the prestigious FIU Medallion. What Makes him Haute : Hublot Americas exclusive partner, Rick de la Croix, opened the Hublot Boutique in Bal Harbour and six cities across the states. Mr. Peebles is also on the National Finance Committee of President Barack Obama. Thats a great legacy for me, Margulies saidhelping humanity.. Mr. Boich graduated Cum Laude from the University of Miami in 1998. CATEGORY: Billionaires Mr. Margulies said that the proceeds from admission to the collection ($10; free for Florida students) and tours ($25 per person, usually led by his collections longtime curator, Katherine Hinds) go to the shelter, Lotus House, which is run by Constance Collins, his ex-wife (whom Mr. Margulies describes as his best friend). Company: Choice Therapeutics, What Makes him Haute : David Edelsteins deeply rooted relationships within the real estate and banking community are key to the success of his company, Tristar Capital. Under his leadership, Prestige has obtained No. At the time, MAM was struggling to raise funds for its Herzog & de Meuron-designed new building which eventually opened in 2013. Raj Vattikuti You May Also Like In 2010, he made significant bequests of $20 million to Lotus House, a Miami homeless shelter for women and infants, and of $5 million to the New World Symphony, an orchestral academy based in Miami. Nadar owns the largest fine art gallery in the world with 55,000 sq. What Makes Them Haute : Vattikuti sold his Covansys, a global technology and consulting firm which specializes in outsourcing, to Computer Sciences in 2007 for $1.3 billion.