Set in Brickell, Miami, JZ Apartment is a 2025 luxury lower penthouse renovation by Nar Design Studio. Designed by architects Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy for a renowned attorney, the 1,830-square-foot residence was conceived as a second home overlooking the skyline from the 60th floor of Brickell Flatiron. Rather than replicating the polished formality of the client’s primary residence, the project was imagined as a more personal, culturally expressive retreat shaped by contemporary art, electronic music, and the dynamic character of Miami. Set within Brickell Flatiron, the landmark Miami tower designed by Luis Revuelta, the residence responds to an already iconic building while establishing a more art-led identity of its own.
What distinguishes the project is the way it interprets urban luxury through interior architecture rather than through excess. In Brickell’s high-rise residential market, penthouse interiors often rely on neutral finishes and predictable forms of refinement. JZ Apartment takes a more editorial approach. It transforms a lower penthouse into a gallery-like environment where light, rhythm, color, and curated objects become the primary design instruments, reflecting the work of Nar Design Studio across its luxury residential interior projects in Miami and South Florida.
The renovation began by stripping away the apartment’s original finishes to create a quieter architectural envelope. White walls, redesigned ceilings, and a new layered lighting strategy established visual clarity and a stronger sense of openness, while updated electrical planning supported a more precise atmosphere throughout the residence. This minimalist framework was never intended to feel empty. Instead, it creates the necessary breathing room for the skyline, furniture, artwork, and materials to read with greater intensity.
In the main living area, panoramic views over the Miami skyline are treated as part of the interior composition. The spatial strategy emphasizes openness and negative space, allowing the city to remain present while curated design elements sit within a cleaner, more controlled field. Saturated tones such as teal, cobalt, fuchsia, neon yellow, and deep red punctuate the otherwise restrained architecture, drawing on the tropical vibrancy of Miami and the heightened atmosphere of nightlife culture without slipping into cliché.
That balance between restraint and expression is reinforced by the furniture selection. Pieces such as Mario Bellini’s Camaleonda, Michel Ducaroy’s Togo, Naoto Fukasawa’s Grande Papilio, Patricia Urquiola’s Shimmer table, and Konstantin Grcic’s Noctambule lighting give the penthouse a strong design lineage while preserving a distinctly personal atmosphere. Tropical wallcoverings, iridescent surfaces, a custom Art&Loom rug, and contemporary sculptural pieces deepen the sensorial effect, turning the open-plan living room into a space that feels at once cultured, playful, and metropolitan.
Lighting was treated as a central architectural device rather than as a decorative afterthought. Cove lighting, pendants, sconces, and freestanding fixtures were orchestrated to shift the mood of the apartment throughout the day, allowing the residence to move from daylight clarity to a warmer and more immersive evening atmosphere. This control of illumination is essential to the project’s identity, heightening the relationship between color, texture, reflection, and view while giving the interiors a more cinematic rhythm.
In the private rooms, the language becomes quieter but no less deliberate. Textured fabrics, layered materials, custom wallcoverings, and carefully selected furnishings soften the atmosphere of the bedrooms and create spaces intended for decompression rather than display. The primary suite, in particular, balances bold visual identity with intimacy through controlled light, tactile finishes, and a more restrained composition that still feels fully connected to the project’s wider artistic language.
What gives JZ Apartment its distinction within Miami luxury residential interiors is not simply its setting or collectible furniture, but its ability to translate personality into space with architectural discipline. The result positions luxury penthouse interior design in Brickell as something more refined than status-driven polish. Here, luxury is expressed through authorship, atmosphere, technical control, and cultural reference. This urban interpretation of high-rise living extends the studio’s work in architect-led condominium interiors across Miami, including One Thousand Museum SV Apartment, while carving out a more art-led niche of its own. While JZ Apartment explores a more art-led expression of luxury high-rise living in Brickell, SK Residence reflects Nar Design Studio’s quieter, waterfront approach to architect-led residential interiors in Surfside.
The project’s reception confirms that this more editorial approach resonates beyond the residence itself. JZ Apartment has been recognized by the SBID International Design Awards and the INT Interior Design Awards, and featured by international design publications including Elle Decor Spain, Design Milk, Archilovers, HomeWorld Design, TrendHunter, myDecor, PLNDesign, and Estudio Arquitectos.
Learn more about Nar Design Studio, the Miami luxury interior design firm founded by Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy.
Project Details
Location: Brickell Flatiron / Brickell, Miami, Florida
Market: Luxury High-Rise Residential
Project Type: Interior Architecture + Luxury Interior Design
Residence Type: Lower Penthouse Renovation
Area: 1,830 ft² / 170 m²
Completion: 2025
Scope: Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Furniture Curation, Styling
Designers: Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy
Interior Design Firm: Nar Design Studio
Photography: Gabriel Volpi
Design Approach: Art-led, gallery-like, urban luxury living
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
JZ Apartment has been recognized by the SBID International Design Awards and the INT Interior Design Awards, reinforcing its position as an editorially recognized luxury penthouse interior in Brickell, Miami.
SBID International Design Awards 2025 – Finalist – Residential Apartment Under £1M
INT Interior Design Awards 2025 – Shortlisted – Residential – Apartments & Houses – Apts 100–200 sqm
JZ Apartment reflects Nar Design Studio’s broader approach to luxury residential interiors in Miami: spaces that respond not only to architecture and view, but also to personal narrative, cultural reference, and the emotional quality of light. In this lower penthouse at Brickell Flatiron, minimalism is used not as restraint for its own sake, but as an architectural backdrop for collectible furniture, contemporary art, saturated color, and a more expressive interpretation of city living.
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