The Vinoy Resort & Golf Membership Completes First Renovation Part
The Vinoy Resort and Golf Membership, Autograph Assortment has accomplished the preliminary part of a complete renovation. Capturing the magic of Florida’s Golden Age and reflecting the resort’s wealthy historical past via a refined but refined lens, the renovation contains The Vinoy’s legendary Veranda; refined grand foyer; elegant visitor rooms; historic ballrooms and assembly areas; numerous worldwide eating experiences; and a brand new spa and wellness space. As a brand new Autograph Assortment property, each element was rigorously thought of by a revered historic preservation skilled, who suggested all through the design course of.
The famend resort is listed on the U.S. Nationwide Register of Historic Locations and is a member of Historic Lodges of America. As the one Autograph Assortment Lodges property in St. Petersburg, The Vinoy Resort and Golf Membership, delivers an intimate connection to the vacation spot, with genuine moments weaved into all visitor experiences.
Take a look at extra particulars from the press launch under.
A Showstopping Arrival
From the second one enters The Vinoy’s elegant entrance drive, the historic resort welcomes friends to timeless glamour, artfully embracing them with hospitality impressed by a bygone period. The reimagined arrival court docket, designed by Hart Howerton, highlights the dramatically detailed authentic entry portal whereas incorporating authentic Twenties brick that has been rigorously re-laid and is surrounded by indigenous Floridian foliage. The enchanting Veranda, The Vinoy’s iconic entrance porch, is enhanced with customized Rockwell Group-designed rocking chairs, a Vinoy custom since its opening in 1925, and a customized bar.
With nods to the city resort’s illustrious previous, Rockwell Group launched a design all through the general public areas and visitor rooms that celebrates The Vinoy’s conventional Mediterranean Revival fashion and old-world Florida grandeur. When friends stroll via the Vinoy’s entrance door, they immediately change into a part of the resort’s wealthy historical past, stepping onto the foyer’s authentic ceramic tile flooring and viewing the unique cypress wooden beam ceiling from 1925. The unique particulars are balanced with up to date design components together with customized, lantern-like chandeliers that make the room sparkle. The foyer is house to newly opened French patisserie Lottie and luxurious vogue boutique Sunni Spencer, which sells stylish, resort-inspired clothes, equipment and swimwear. Above the foyer, the mezzanine stage might be house to a revitalized historical past gallery that captures The Vinoy’s one-of-a-kind story, having served because the host of essential social occasions and welcoming well-known friends together with U.S. presidents, athletes and celebrities.
“Our aim was all the time to honor The Vinoy’s storied previous and historical past as an architectural icon of St. Petersburg,” says Shawn Sullivan, companion of Rockwell Group. “Rockwell Group’s design idea blends a complicated, up to date language with grand historic options. I feel friends might be each shocked and delighted by the methods wherein unmistakably 21st century components actually reinvent the property’s wealthy legacy.”
Elegant Residential-Model Visitor Rooms
Rockwell Group’s design of The Vinoy’s elegant visitor rooms is influenced by Florida’s coastal topography and options the resort’s signature polished palette, streamlined crown molding and dramatic fixtures that create a way of laid-back sophistication. Commissioned, customized artwork by painter Alicia LaChance adorns the partitions, whereas the flooring transition from wooden to customized, blue-patterned carpeting, presenting the look of sand assembly the ocean and creating distinction between the sleeping space and the remainder of the room. Within the King rooms, cane panels separate the entry vestibule from the bed room space, furthering the coastal really feel. Luxurious stone-covered loos, most of which have marble walk-in showers, function luxe Ortigia Sicilia toiletries. Different in-room facilities embody a espresso station and charming dressing space that make each room really feel welcoming and spacious, making a particular second upon entry.
Internationally Impressed Eating Experiences
The Vinoy Resort and Golf Membership, Autograph Assortment’s numerous new meals and beverage ideas elevate the resort as an inviting and classy social hub, eradicating the strains the place the resort stops and the group begins. Lottie, the brand new stylish French patisserie within the resort’s foyer, serves beautiful house-made pastries and sweets, together with a signature pistachio cake, macarons, gelato, and over 20 flavors of truffles. The menu additionally options elevated renditions of traditional French lunch fare akin to seared tuna niçoise salad, quiche Lorraine and a jambon fromage sandwich on a flaky croissant with brie, prosciutto and fig jam. Lottie completely serves La Colombe espresso together with the Lottie Latte, a warming mix of cinnamon-infused espresso, orange essence, and oat milk. Lottie’s photo-worthy customized china options a picture of its signature Dachshund emblem.
The Vinoy’s reimagined Veranda, overlooking the glistening Tampa Bay, has launched an attractive new menu of artistic takes on traditional craft cocktails, plus Mediterranean impressed shareable plates, mild entrees and desserts. Standout dishes embody the Bianca Flatbread, topped with artichokes, zucchini, feta, parmigiano and mozzarella; contemporary seafood together with oysters, tuna carpaccio, and purple snapper crudo; and the signature Veranda Spritz cocktails, that are greatest loved whereas becoming a member of in on the storied Vinoy custom of enjoyable in a rocking chair whereas taking within the beautiful waterfront views.
Opening this summer season, Parasol, a vibrant Latin American-inspired, full-service outside restaurant with panoramic views of the Tampa Bay waterfront, can even overlook the historic resort’s all new glamorous pool deck. Parasol will create an brisk, island-like environment with a menu starring contemporary seafood, vibrant flavors and spices, and tropical craft cocktails perfect for poolside indulging. The restaurant will function a marble wrap-around bar and residing inexperienced wall. These thrilling shops be part of The Vinoy’s present signature eating places, Paul’s Touchdown and The Vinoy Membership Grill.
Peaceable Spa and Wellness Haven
Impressed by the therapeutic qualities of the ocean, the luxurious full service Vinoy Spa embraces a holistic method to well being and well-being in a refined area that mixes marble, pure wooden, fluted glass and a soothing, nature-inspired colour palette. Welcoming friends with calming Naturopathica tea to set the enjoyable temper from the beginning, the spa options 4 therapy rooms and focuses on coastal-inspired and plant-based therapies that present a rejuvenating wellness expertise, together with massages, facials, full-body therapies, and nail and hair providers. Spa remedies incorporate the newest developments in pure skincare, together with infrared mild remedy, cupping massages from Bellabaci and pioneering holistic substances akin to sea retinol, manuka honey, crystals, enhanced broad-spectrum CBD, and sustainable sea algae. Marine-infused remedies embody the Therapeutic Waters Physique Therapy, a bayside ritual that includes a seawater crystal scrub and a soothing therapeutic massage that mimics the ocean’s waves. The Vinoy Spa emphasizes pure and natural merchandise, that includes premium manufacturers together with famend dermatologist Dr. Dennis Gross’s line; PHYTOMER, a French magnificence line utilizing sustainable substances derived from the ocean; Naturopathica, a botanical skincare model that addresses magnificence from inside; and hair merchandise from Davines.
The Vinoy Spa graciously enhances the resort’s state-of-the-art health heart, which options Peloton bikes, day by day indoor/outside group courses, and a colourful mural by native artist Chad Mize painted in The Vinoy’s signature pink and inexperienced, in addition to the resort’s tennis complicated and The Vinoy Membership’s 18-hole championship golf course.
Historic Ballrooms and Useful Occasion Areas
As probably the most sought-after venues within the Tampa Bay space with over 60,000 sq. toes of occasion area, The Vinoy has been a welcoming host to flawless weddings, elegant celebrations, and galvanizing conferences for many years. Rockwell Group designed The Vinoy’s two distinct ballrooms every with its personal persona. The Vinoy Grand Ballroom makes each occasion really feel particular, honoring the resort’s timeless aesthetic with elegant but fashionable upgrades together with a restoration of the room’s shimmering focus, the blown glass chandelier, Luna, by Dale Chihuly. Subtle new carpeting, material, and furnishings create a way of refined magnificence within the area’s mild and ethereal environment. The ballroom’s dramatic arched home windows now overlook a brand new, lush backyard, bringing the resort’s tropical pure environment into the luxurious and historic area. The Palm Courtroom Ballroom and entrance corridor debuts a impartial colour palette with polished brown accents that carry heat into the area, stylish Artwork Deco chandeliers and sconces that reference the resort’s previous, and brand-new flooring, partitions, and recessed ceilings. The Vinoy’s 22 assembly rooms are named after St. Petersburg parks and contributors to creation of the unique Vinoy Park Lodge.
Extra Grandeur Nonetheless to Come
A high-quality eating restaurant off the grand foyer with a romantic, raised backyard terrace that comes alive at night time with lanterns and white tablecloth service, will full the ultimate part of renovations.
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