Set within Aria on the Bay — Arquitectonica’s 51-story waterfront tower in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood — MB Apartment approaches luxury through precision rather than scale. Designed for a young couple, the two-bedroom corner residence was conceived as an exercise in architect-led restraint: how to create generosity, calm, and visual breadth within a high-rise footprint that rewards planning over square footage. Rather than treating the apartment’s proportions as a constraint, Nar Design Studio used them as the project’s central design premise — allowing circulation, proportion, and perception to shape the interior as much as any furniture or finish selection. In a neighborhood defined by contemporary towers and increasingly design-conscious buyers, the project demonstrates that a two-bedroom condominium deserves the same interior-architectural intelligence as a far larger home.
The corner condition and curved floor plate shaped every decision. Larger furnishings were distributed along the perimeter to preserve a generous sitting area at the center, while a bronze mirror at the hallway corner extends the line of sight on entry — widening the apparent scale of the living room before the apartment fully reveals itself.
In the main social space, a round rug, armless sofa, and lounge chair reinforce openness, while a custom media element wraps a structural column, transforming an obstacle into an architectural anchor. LED illumination traces key transitions, textured wallcoverings soften the planes, and selective greenery introduces warmth without clutter.
Warm greys establish the base tone, while greens and earth colors introduce quiet vitality. Lacquered surfaces, black wood, sandy textiles, and green velvet create depth through contrast — giving the residence an atmosphere that feels measured rather than merely styled.
The six-seat round dining table anchors the corner of the living room, easing transitions between zones while echoing the apartment’s broader language of curves and softened edges. This interior-architecture-led approach extends Nar Design Studio’s work across Miami’s most prominent residential towers — alongside FM Apartment at Aria on the Bay, NR Residence at Brickell Flatiron, and PS Apartment at Five Park Miami Beach.
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Project Details
Location: Aria on the Bay, Edgewater, Miami, Florida
Market: Luxury High-Rise Residential
Project Type: Interior Architecture + Luxury Interior Design
Residence Type: Two-Bedroom Corner Apartment
Floor Level: 19th Floor
Area: 1,173 ft² / 109 m²
Completion: 2021
Designers: Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy
Interior Design Firm: Nar Design Studio
Photography: Gabriel Volpi
Design Approach: Compact-space planning, asymmetrical composition, reflective surfaces, warm materiality
Building: Aria on the Bay, 488 NE 18th Street, Edgewater, Miami — by Arquitectonica, completed 2018
In a market where luxury is still often measured by size, MB Apartment reflects a core conviction in Nar Design Studio’s work: that a more precisely resolved interior can outperform a larger one — not through understatement, but through the quality of its spatial reasoning. In a two-bedroom condominium, every decision operates on multiple registers at once: functional, spatial, atmospheric, and perceptual. There is no room for gestures that only serve one purpose.
Here, perimeter-based planning, asymmetrical composition, reflective surfaces, curved furniture, and carefully controlled focal points were used to make the apartment feel more generous without relying on excess. That is what thoughtful condominium design should mean in Edgewater today — not simply a smaller residence furnished attractively, but a home re-authored through layout intelligence, custom detailing, and material balance so that daily life feels calmer, clearer, and more expansive than the plan promised. MB Apartment demonstrates that refinement in a high-rise setting is not measured by square footage or finish level alone, but by the precision with which space itself has been resolved.
MB Apartment sits within a line of Nar Design Studio work recognized for its approach to compact apartment design and refined Miami condominium interiors.
Brickell Magazine — Creative Minds – The editorial highlighted Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy as experts in compact apartment design, reinforcing the planning-led design position that defines MB Apartment.
Architizer – Featured among Nar Design Studio’s residential projects, supporting the studio’s authority in architect-led condominium interiors in Miami.
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