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One of the more
glamorous exports of Munich, Regina Nuessle is the sort of
impossibly cultivated being who should be put on the local city
payroll, simply to raise the prevailing civic tone. A year or so ago,
after designing the Monte Carlo and Munich homes of tennis star
Boris Becker, she came over to do his Fisher Island retreat and
fell in love with the new watering-hole culture: "In my European
opinion, the Delano Hotel changed Miami Beach -- look at the
sophisticated people you see now." Cheered by the chic, she decided
to open the tony Decorative Art
Antique Store off Lincoln Road,
specializing in French art deco pieces by Andre Arbus. Leleu and
such. "You can't imagine the first month," she explains. "I was
anxious, angry and then furious at the local mentality about work
and being on time."
A rocky professional start, but now the aesthetic gyroscope has settled down a bit, and life is singularly fabulousized: "Paris was my living room once - a few calls and I can still find a 17th-century fireplace or a $60,000 Giacometti lamp. My favorite city is still Paris, but I love South Beach. Munich is not so international and so boring by comparison. Here, you have the - how do you say? - melting pot,' and even Berlin or Paris is not like this place on Saturday night at midnight. Miami Beach must be one of the wildest places on the planet." - Tom
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