The Miami Design Residences by Fouquet's is a building of roughly 143 residences and roughly 85 hotel keys at 39 NE 39th Street in the Miami Design District, by Raycliff Capital, Fort Partners, Constellation Hotels Holdings and Miami Design District Associates, designed by David Chipperfield with interiors by RDAI, managed by the French house Barrière. Sales launched in April 2026. Here is what the buyers who choose it are choosing.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier from the developer's published material and the public construction record, cross-referenced across several sources, with anything unconfirmed flagged. The desk works in English, Spanish and Portuguese and does not represent the developer. All notes from the desk.
The desk at Miami Dossier covers a small number of Miami buildings closely rather than the whole market lightly. The Fouquet's project is one the desk began fielding questions on the week sales opened, and this note is compiled from the developer's published material and the public record rather than from a brochure summary. It is the list of reasons buyers give when they choose this building, in the order we hear them, with the facts behind each one.
Chipperfield, the Pritzker laureate behind the Neues Museum in Berlin and the Royal Academy in London, has one project under way in Florida and this is it, with Cube 3 as the local partner. Among a Miami skyline of familiar practices, that is genuinely unusual, and the design review board reportedly said as much in approving it.
Fouquet's is the brand of Groupe Barrière, the family-owned French hospitality and entertainment company founded more than a century ago, whose Paris flagship on the Champs-Élysées gives the name its weight. This is Fouquet's first Miami hotel and its second in the United States after New York.
RDAI, the Paris practice that has designed the Hermès stores worldwide, is responsible for the interiors. Like Chipperfield, it is a European hand rather than a Miami one, and the difference shows in the restraint of the published material.
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Fouquet's manages the residences as well as flagging the hotel, and published material includes housekeeping and chauffeur services among the residential offering. That is a fuller service proposition than most Miami residential buildings provide.
Barrière leads five dining concepts within the building. In a district where the restaurants are the reason people come, having them downstairs rather than around the corner is a material difference.
Published plans run from one to four bedrooms at roughly 910 to 4,350 square feet. That range is wider and starts smaller than most buildings the desk at Miami Dossier covers, which makes the choice of line more consequential here than usual.
A rooftop swimming pool, a fitness studio, a golf simulator and more than 40,000 square feet of communal space in the published programme, alongside the hotel's own facilities.
Roughly 85 hotel keys and roughly 20 hotel-condominium units sit alongside the long-term residences, with just over 55,000 square feet of commercial space. Owners live above an operating hotel, which brings service and also brings a shared budget and traffic; the before-you-buy note takes that apart.
The site of roughly 1.07 acres at 39 NE 39th Street is within the district itself, among the flagship stores, galleries and the ICA, with Miami Design District Associates, the estate that runs the retail core, among the developers.
Fort Partners, which delivered the Four Seasons at The Surf Club and is building the Four Seasons in Coconut Grove, joins Raycliff Capital, Constellation Hotels Holdings and Miami Design District Associates here. The desk at Miami Dossier holds the delivery record of each and shares it on request.
The current floor plans by line, the current release and the deposit schedule, obtained directly from the sales team on request, together with our own floor plan analysis and an honest comparison against Kempinski a few blocks west and against the Edgewater bayfront. None of it is published here because it changes. Ask for it and it arrives from the desk at Miami Dossier the same day, usually by WhatsApp, with our opinion attached, whether that opinion is Fouquet's or another building.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Most of the people who ask the desk at Miami Dossier about Miami Design Residences by Fouquet's are not only choosing a building. They are moving to Miami from New York, California, London, Bogotá, Mexico City or São Paulo, or adding a Miami position to a portfolio held elsewhere, and the building question sits inside a larger one: how to buy new construction in Miami, how to hold it, and what changes when you do.
The desk keeps short notes on the parts that come up every week: how buying preconstruction in Miami actually works, what a normal deposit schedule looks like, whether you need to be in Miami to buy, whether a foreign buyer can get a mortgage, what taxes a foreign buyer pays on a Miami condo, and the Florida state income tax question for anyone relocating from a high-tax state. For buyers arriving from a specific market there are notes for Bogotá, Mexico City and London, and a broader one on why so many wealthy families are moving to Miami.
Read the ones that apply, then bring the rest to the desk at Miami Dossier. It usually takes one conversation to see how Miami Design Residences by Fouquet's fits the move, or whether another building fits it better.
This note is general information for people considering Miami, written by a real estate desk, not by a law or accounting firm. Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Rules change, treaties differ by country, and the right answer for one family is the wrong answer for another.
Speak with your own attorney and CPA before you commit to anything. If you do not have one who works with international buyers in Florida, the desk is glad to recommend an attorney, a CPA or an adviser suited to your situation, and to sit in the first conversation so that nothing is lost in translation.
Structure, financing, currency, timing, the right building and the right line: the desk works through these questions with international buyers every week, and the answer is nearly always that it can be done, in order, without surprises. If Miami is on your mind, as a home or as an allocation, we would be glad to share what we are seeing, privately, and to start with the question this note did not answer.
Nobody chooses Miami Design Residences by Fouquet's in isolation. The desk at Miami Dossier weighs it against Kempinski Residences Miami Design District, and sets it beside every other building in Design District on the Design District cluster. If the question underneath yours is really how to read a developer's record before a long build, start there instead.