South Beach Condo for Rent: Miami Beach/South Beach Direct Ocean View 1 Bedroom Decoplage-Lincoln Road - Property 195034

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The Furnishings: Gorgeous 20th Century Modern furniture: Eames, Knoll, Floss, Artemide & Eileen Gray. Mitchell Gold Queen Sleep Sofa in the Living Room. The Decoplage From a quiet stroll by the beach at sunrise or sunset, to the exciting nightlife and shopping; The Decoplage Condominium offers a unique combination of location and luxury! Full service building on the ocean, in walking distance to everything. Located between The Delano and The Lowes right next to the new Ritz Carlton DiLido. Convenient walking distance to everything. Includes private direct access to the beach.

About Lincoln Road Miami Beach - South Beach: Carl Fisher, the wealthy original developer of Miami Beach, envisioned Lincoln Road to be the Miami Beach counterpart to Fifth Avenue in New York, or Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. And indeed in the boom times of South Beach in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, it could match those upscale fashionable shopping districts as it does again today. Today, Lincoln Road is a pedestrian promenade between Lenox Avenue and Washington Avenue. It is thriving as a shopping and dining area. Unique stores offer items not typically found in malls, and restaurants and cafés are common. Most restaurants offer either indoor or outdoor seating, including in the middle of the pedestrian mall area. And without question, the people watching on Lincoln Road can match any place in the world. There seems to be a constant flow of stunningly attractive women and men passing by and many wear fashionable clothes with a major dose of sexy.

About South Beach: South Beach - where the bronzed and the beautiful work, play, shop, and let loose. Where stately palms sway over the languid curves and artful angles of a world of deco delight. Perched on the sun-kissed southernmost tip of old Miami Beach, South Beach oozes visual appeal. The 600 wondrous Art Deco buildings survive from that era's heyday - the history, and the people who make the scene: supermodels, photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, hipsters, movie stars, tycoons, all populate this exhilarating world, as do the resourceful historic preservation activists who fought to save this timelessly elegant urban village from developers and politicians wanting to demolish it. South Beach is two success stories: that of the architects who created the neighborhood’s fabulous Tropical Deco style in the 1930s and that of the activists, artists, and business people who saved a cultural treasure--this historic neighborhood--from the wrecking balls of the 1980s and 1990s.

Golf: The 18-hole 'Miami Beach' course at the Miami Beach Golf Club facility in Miami Beach, Florida features 6,903 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73 and it has a slope rating of 127. Designed by Bruce Devlin/Robert Von Hagge/(R)Arthur Hills, ASGCA/Steven P. Forrest, ASGCA, the Miami Beach golf course opened in 2002. Professional Course Management manages this facility. The recent (2002) remodel of MBGC was a huge success. The entire course is well manicured and very well designed. The grass on the course is a new strain of Bermuda grass that looks more like bent grass and plays like it also. The greens are reasonably fast for Florida (9-9.5 Stimpmeter rating) and the fairways are close cropped and fast also. The pro shop is very well stocked and attended by several pros who were very friendly and accommodating. The day we played (May 22nd) it was hot and we were treated to lots of wildlife. The Iguana lizards are plentiful and quite large. It was like going to the zoo. I've only played limited golf in Florida but MBGC is definitely an upgrade from the high end resorts that I've experienced in South Florida. If you plan on playing golf in the Miami area, give this one a try. You won't be disappointed.

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