Key Biscayne’s ‘Miami Vice’ Mansion Is Now Available as a $75K-a-Month Rental

Published: June 21, 2017 | By: American Luxury Staff

The meandering waterfront mansion featured in Michael Mann’s meandering 2006 ‘Miami Vice’ reboot has hit the market as a rental. Listed for sale last year with an asking price of $39 million, the home—which sits on a peninsular spit of Mashta Island—is now being offered for lease at a rate of $75K/monthly.

The house’s design is heavily influenced by Balinese architecture, with the clustered compound layout and airy, open spaces that extend to generally vaulted ceilings, or open-trussed and following the contours of the varied rooflines. But, mainly, it’s a luxe Florida home, with the higher-end materials and craftsmanship one expects, and too strong a Western sensibility overall to be pegged as a strictly tropical vernacular.

It’s a fairly large house, measuring about 12,000 square feet of living space, with five bedrooms and six baths, including a pair of master suites, and a pair of kitchens, one located on the covered terrace and outside dining area.

The house’s more striking features may not be the well-designed home cinema, or the charmingly utilitarian kitchen. Instead, the eye may be drawn to the fact that, in some rooms, ceiling and floor designs mirror or comment upon each other, or the interior garden. The house does have something to say, and in that way stands in contrast with developer-built spec homes of similar pedigree and geographical situation, which amount to a lot of nice materials thrown together without much in the way of overall design vision.

The house features 480 feet of frontage on Biscayne Bay, and a private boat dock which can accommodate larger yachts. The property extends to 38,000 square feet over all.

The house was built in 2004, and is one of the last projects undertaken by Florida architect Charles Harrison Pawley.

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