Casa Casuarina
Miami South Beach
November 30th 2005

The "Casa Casuarina" is located at 1116 Ocean Drive in Miami Beach and
was owned by fashion designer Gianni Versace. It became famous on July 15th 1997,
when Gianni Versace was shot dead on the steps to this Miami mansion.

Now the Villa is owned by Peter Loftin, has been kept the way
Versace redesigned it, and is restricted to private members-only and parties

This night was dedicated to thank all the great friends who made
the "Art Basel Miami Beach" such a great event in 2005, and
hopefully for many years to come! Art Basel Miami Beach has
become the second largest art show on earth and is the American
sister event of the biggest art show, the "Art Basel" in Switzerland.
A great piece of Switzerland in the USA!

Having Aperitif in the Davidoff Cigar Lounge of Casa Casuarina

The nice Logo pointing to the Davidoff Lounge

The view in front of the door to the Davidoff Lounge

Inside the Casa Casuarina facing towards the entrance and stairway

Isabelle wearing a great japanese dress
in discussion with Beat Jossen

Another shot, looks like the moon is rising inside the Casa!

The Casa Casuarina logo is rising

A view on the tropical garden from the Davidoff Lounge

Heading downstairs to take a closer look at the tropical garden:
Juerg, Lilli, Daniele and Ruedi

The tropical garden outside

Carol Bancroft from Boca Raton in discussion
with Magda Schmid from Switzerland

The nice bar of the tropical garden

Reto Gaudenzi photographed by Reto Sigl in the tropical garden
of Casa Casuarina! Two Swiss facing each other!

Taking a seat at the Caviar Creator Club Lounge for dinner.
Yes, we were able to seat 18 great personalities at the table!!!

The host Hans-Heini giving a tost to all the guests and introducing
each of them in a great way! Isabelle sitting next to him.

Beatrice in discussion with Beat Jossen in the Caviar Creator Club Lounge

Isabelle showing Juerg Neff how tall she is!

Reto also trying to show his height.
The palm tree in the back looks like his hair extension :-)

Casa Casuarina's Managing Director Reto Gaudenzi
with friend and Art Basel Miami Beach Full Service Contractor Hans-Heini

Beatrice, Beat, Carol, Ken, Irene

Farazeh and David Allen

I felt like a big family sitting together at the table!
Here: Ken, Irene, Daniele, Lilli, Reto, Carol, Hans-Heini

Everybody is excited for the meal to come

The house dessert from Wolfgang Birk is served with
its very own Casa Casuarina Logo ontop

Daniele Favalli and Lilli

Executive Chef Wolfgang Birk and Hans-Heini

Hans-Heini posing for photographer Isabelle

Small accident late at night :-)

Hans-Heini, Isabelle, Carol and Ruedi

Lilli and Carol shocking Reto with something I cannot repeat here

Rudolf, Farazeh and David

Reto and Carol

Carol, Donald Lockerbie, Rebecca, Ken Chartier and Irene Goodkind

Reto smiling happy between Daniele and Carol

The romantic candle light

A great family trip together: Magda and Rudolf Schmid.
Magda lives at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland!

Rudolf, Farazeh, David and Hans-Heini

Time for Tea for Two! This is not ordinary tea...

It is served in a Versace tea cup and a pyramid shape tea bag!

After the delicious dinner, we wentto chill out for a bit in
the Davidoff Lounge again: Isa, David, Farazeh and Rebecca

Some last pictures before we leave in the early morning:
Reto posing alone at Casa Casuarina

Carol and Reto next to the fountain

Isabelle and Reto posing in front of the Casa Casuarina

Two days later we went with the Casa Casuarina hosts to
a great restaurant at the very south of Miami Beach, where
we met great boxing legend Evander Holyfield

Peter Loftin greeting his member Evander Holyfield

Boxing legend Evander Holyfield with Isabelle

While Isabelle and I would have been invited to join
dinner with them, but we decided to stay at the bar
and have a great conversation instead :-)