" What is art Deco well goes back to the -- Paris exposition of 1925. We here at south Miami Beach we have a great variety of architecture to take a look back where it says bow hotel over there yeah that shows where Iraq hurricane Andrew exposed. A little bit more of what -- people believe is the oldest building in Miami Beach really -- and coming little close you have an example of what's happening now. That's a fake front for a television series across the side. The river near the center hotel. Just what's special about this they're really the out fine art Deco architecture and the wonderful intimate scale we have in this. But I thought art Deco meant a lot more decoration and color weather has a lot more that what we take a -- take a look great filler -- It was a great restoration because it bounces. The historic look of the buildings which were white with bright colored trim it has a lot of the bright colors and a popular today. But it's not as as vibrant a color scheme as I kind of expected. And of course the strong horizontal lines are really need that part of it streamlined and --"

" Randall what would you say about this building here. This is clearly influenced by the classic French art Deco in the 1920s which had a lot of decorative flourish to it. Depicted all those natural -- and up very formalized stylized way I love those flamingo flamingo birds in the middle of the society and the girls. Yes it's beautiful relief work with a 1980s colors and it's more typical of an art Deco building to have the kind of rectal Linear design straight lines either horizontal or vertical. Yeah that's more typical of our Miami Beach art Deco. And -- these colors -- pastels were designed by the man who started the pastels back in about 79 Leonard Horowitz he started the restoration movement down here. He did hello Barbara -- admit that the pastels were his idea. They're very successful -- via the beach front here. But at this great 55. Olds convertible. In the lines really go lines of the buildings. And of course you get vintage automobiles around here that match the front facades. You suppose the hotel owners have bought them just the park them out front -- it's always out there from the -- so not only has the architecture of the area have been revived but the whole neighborhood is full life now. So it's a wonderfully vibrant neighborhood with young and old -- and or beautiful and not so beautiful people from all over the world. That's half the the front of the places that people. Tell me about this one on the corner here that's the Waldorf towers of the wonderful little lighthouse on the corner with a neon sculpture inside. For years that lighthouse was missing but when the first. Refurbishment moves was placing that -- white house on the top of the Waldorf."

" The pastels were great idea but in less than skillful hands they tend to become garrison and very. They don't have they don't display the same restraint. And formality that that the art Deco architecture -- itself and you can see that. A lot of these really loud colors and colors that really don't agree or compliment the original materials. Coming up here at do you have. Cardoso the beautiful Burgundy stone is totally. A flash by that -- body which is just shaved."

" The Burgundy stone of the the the columns yeah it is what is it keystone right yeah dyed keystone. And the it department interior guidelines say that the colors should compliment. Original materials and here they compete and overwhelm a little bit too strong yet. But at least it's all being preserved and restored and cleaned up and -- but back to life that's for sure. Randall I'd love to see a lobby but we've up Collins avenue to take a look at the Ritz plaza it's got one of our best interior renovations."

" That's not what I expected though this is kind of very cool and serene favorite it is clean simple lines became evident which came after art Deco. Yeah says I was expecting the hotter colors and the the jagged lines that we've been looking -- this is very herbaceous and yet. We say streamlined it makes me think of those locomotives from the board had the emphasis was definitely on speed and technology and hop movement forward I love the patterns in the Florida here's. Yeah the architects from but to use terrazzo in these buildings because they could create these beautiful elegant designs and different colors -- the terrazzo is simply a mixture of cement in aggregate that gets laid in patterns that you create with these brass lines. And then of course you polish it to this high -- and it works great our climate could stays cool. Yeah. Not a very cool lobby and and furniture like this is pretty much in keeping with the style too isn't it that's not period furniture but it blends in the lines -- the same. The same Spirit of the lines of the of the building itself so right it works well love these grays and yellows and hands in the over there that very creamy colors that what material is that the registration desk that's keystone from the middle keys. It was once covered in plywood but they didn't -- restoring it ends -- the lines of the check out past the really a fantastic. Simple streamlined that's a beautiful space pol pot looking into art Deco swimming pool -- there's -- probably could take a look at it. Randall it's an incredible swimming pool when was it built late thirties stop these figures cover up -- avenue were the last big crop art Deco on Miami Beach I had. And the spectacular -- incredible swimming pools like this one here one time billed as the world's most beautiful swimming pool. And that could take a look at it's really a spectacular piece it is it has these gorgeous kind of baroque curves of industry and any law that goes with the whole theme of the."