DESTINATIONS

1. Buy vintage at C Madeleine’s (13702 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami Beach, cmadeleines.com), the biggest thrift store in the world and a celebrity favourite.
2. See Zaha Hadid’s Elastika installation in the atrium of the Moore Space (4040 NE 2nd Avenue, themoorespace.org) in the Design District, not to mention the high-school gates across the street, which Marc Newson designed.
3. Pay homage to Barbara Baer Capitman, who campaigned to save the unrivalled Art Deco and Miami Modernist (aka MiMo) architecture on South Beach. For a real insight into her work, join one of the Miami Design Preservation League’s guided walks. Or take one of its self-guided iPod tours (mdpl.org).
4. Check in to the newly opened Mondrian hotel (mondrian-miami.com) on South Beach. Or at least swing by to admire über-modish Dutch designer Marcel Wanders’ fabulous design.
5. Feed the parrots on Jungle Island (parrotjungle.com), an 18-acre tropical theme park between Downtown and South Beach. It’s allowed – as long as you buy authorised seed to feed them with.

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