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Blasblog From Miami: Pardon The Error, But Le Baron Is Basel’s Beatrice Inn

December 6, 2008 1:08 pm

Earlier I erroneously suggested that the Raleigh hotel’s backyard was the Beatrice Inn of this year’s Art Basel Miami. I am now reporting that as an error. (My bad.) Sure, the Oasis, as the André Balazs-owned hotel calls its sandy post-pool area, is a hot spot: Visionaire’s party last night was just as good as Deitch Projects’ fête the night before, if not better. But when it comes to the bawdy, smoky hedonism that the Beatrice prides itself on, it’s not about the open area and iconic pool. Nah, to get all of the above we’d have to go to the pop-up Le Baron nightclub in the Delano Hotel. (This kind of makes sense, since Beatrice and Le Baron are related in that same-club-owner kind of way.) Thursday night was the most fun, sweatiest dance party yet. Somehow, through the haze, I made it to the hippest Art Basel table. From left to right, I ID’ed artist Hanna Liden and her DJ ladyfriend Rachel Chandler; artist Nate Lowman and his ladyfriend Mary-Kate Olsen (seen here with Ryan McGinley earlier in the evening); then Aaron Young, Neville Wakefield, and Interview’s Christopher Bollen. Dancing in front of them—to the weirdest mash-up of music I’ve ever heard, spanning techno, Ting Tings, Beyoncé, and Frank Sinatra—was Fabiola Beracasa, Katie Lee Joel, and Nylon’s Dani Stahl. (I’m sure there were people elsewhere in the club, but once you get a seat at a place like this, you don’t give it up!) At one point Pharrell, who is making cameos at nearly every party in town and hosting a dinner with Parisian retail outlet Colette tomorrow night, came over to have a chat with Ms. Olsen. It might have had something to do with a mutual respect of Murakami, but I couldn’t hear. I think that’s when Sinatra’s “New York, New York” was blaring.