Fontainebleau Encore

A 1950s Miami Beach icon gets a 21st-century update.

After a $1 billion reboot, Miami Beach’s most celebrated hotel, the Fontainebleau, delivers a massive jolt of sleek, joyful escapism while paying adoring homage to its 1950s roots. Black bow-tie-patterned marble floors -- from the days when Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland crooned at the Morris Lapidus–designed original hotel -- flirt with chandeliers created by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei and collages by the late gay artist Robert Rauschenberg; a new pair of high-rise towers join the vivacious curve of the main two-building complex (seen in Goldfinger), upping the room count to a convention-minded 1,504. Grooviest room feature? Not the big-enough-for-two marble showers, but the 20-inch iMac in each room. The supersize showmanship that makes Las Vegas catnip to queers is alive and well throughout the hotel’s 22 oceanfront acres, which include 11 restaurants and lounges, a gym with floor-to-ceiling Atlantic views, two large pools, and a 40,000-square-foot spa.