The magazine is shining the spotlight on six local women who are making a difference in their communities. Jared Shapiro is the magazine’s new editor-in-chief.

“I think when you are looking for real Miami beauties, you’re always looking for someone who is beautiful inside and outside,” said Shapiro. “People that devote their lives to philanthropy…women who work hard and have creative ideas…beautiful on the outside, no matter what their age,” said Shapiro.

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Michelle Oka-Doner is a 67-year-old artist who proved beauty is timeless. Her work is seen daily by thousands at Miami International Airport, where her design skills grace the crustacean floor of the new north wing.

“It’s very exciting to be participating in this,” said Oka-Doner. “I suggested next year they do Real Grandmothers of Miami Beach!” she joked.

Nathalie Cadet-James, 35, is a Haitian American whose love for music inspired her to become the director of the Young Patrons Group for the New World Symphony. She’s also on the board of the Overtown Music Project.

“I was floored!” said Cadet-James. “What an honor!”

“These are people who work hard during the day and devote their time to charity causes. [They] live a life outside work and charity as well, experiencing everything Miami has to offer while giving back,” said Shapiro.

CBS4′s Shannon Hori knows a lot about giving back. The mother of 4-year-old twin boys recently helped raise $450K for Miami Children’s Hospital.

“It’s something we all dream about,” Hori said, referring to her being featured in Ocean Drive Magazine. “But when when we take off all the makeup and go home at night, we really do think of what a difference you have made in the world. That’s what makes a true beauty,” said Hori.

You can see the Real Miami Beauties in the May-June issue of Ocean Drive Magazine. The photographer taking the shots was Jana Cruder.

Miami Beach, Florida -  Our Miami Condos News staff saw the One Ocean condominium sales center on Collins Avenue looks like a small art gallery as of late. This Miami Condo Project has an office which appears to fit right in with the famous Art Basel event. As many local Miami Real estate Investors know, Art Basel happens to be Miami’s annual celebration of contemporary art.

One Ocean Condos and the Related Group

At a this gorgeous One Ocean condo development, there were a number of visitors who asked about the scale model of One Ocean, This Miami real estate property will be the 50-unit condominium project that the Related Group of Florida is developing. This magnificent Miami condos development will sit across the street from the beach, just south of exciting Fifth Street.

Miami Real Estate Development from Jorge M. Pérez

We see already that this is a Miami Real Estate development in which Jorge M. Pérez, the founder and chairman of the Related Group, can be proud. We see the design will be spectacular along with an excellent location. Also Jorge M. Pérez, with Related has the. One Ocean luxury condo project selling so quickly that recently only six units were left for sale. This is all happening even as the Miami Condo development will not quite see groundbreaking until this coming fall.

Jorge Perez has His Legacy in Miami Beach

We see the Related Group Chairman and CEO Jorge Perez will not be just another new condominium tower in Miami Beach, Florida. The location alone will set the One Ocean project in Miami Beach apart and being a project of CEO Jorge Perez will help the buzz with South Florida Real estate Investors. Related Group Chairman and CEO Jorge Perez has stated that “One Ocean is my legacy for Miami Beach.”.
Electric South of Fifth Neighborhood,

One Ocean, will be positioned at 91 Collins Avenue in the South of Fifth neighborhood, This upcoming Miami Condos Development will include 46 residences and also four cozy villas. The comfy villas will be somewhere around 3,000 square feet.

Team of Top Level Architects Design One Ocean Condo Development

CEO Jorge Perez has gotten together a number of artists and designers on this fine Miami Condo development. As we spoke of branding and labeling recently Rea Estate Investors will see Enrique Norten, Enzo Enea, Jose Bedia, Eugenio Cuttica, Michelle Oka Doner and Daniel Azouley with their inspiration involved in the project.

Miami Modernist Architecture from Enrique Norten

Architect Enrique Norten was born in Mexico City and earned a B.A. in architecture there before doing his M.A. at Cornell University in New York. Once he returned to his home city, Norten founded the firm TEN Arquitectos in the 80′s (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos), and he is still principal.

Miami Beach Condos For Sale

The luminous bronze plaque created by Michele for the library was designed using the lost wax process and commemorates the passing away in 2010 of her long-time friend, and the Wolfsonian’s first professional librarian, James Findlay.

Jim started with the Wolfsonian Foundation back in 1989 and played a critical role in transforming Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.’s private collection of books into a public museum rare book and special collections library accessible to the global community of scholars. Working in tandem with Mr. Wolfson, Jim helped build the collection, filling in gaps and broadening its areas of strength. Jim was particularly interested in WPA materials and his influence helped make the Wolfsonian’s collection of New Deal books and ephemera one of the finest in the nation.

After leaving the Wolfsonian in 1995, Jim went on serve as the founding director of the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts (later renamed the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book) housed in the main branch of the Broward County Library in downtown Fort Lauderdale. During his tenure there, Jim organized numerous and beautifully curated exhibitions with materials drawn from the Bienes collection as well as from collections held by local public institutions and private collectors. He and his staff produced approximately thirty printed catalogs publications to accompany those exhibitions.

The memorial event held in the Wolfsonian library was attended by Wolfsonian founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Michele Oka Doner, Jim’s partner of twenty-five years, Rafael Rodriguez, his sibling Joanne from Michigan, life-long friend Janice Jorgensen, Lea Nickless, a couple of dozen other friends from Miami Beach. Many of the Wolfsonian’s veteran staff members who worked with Jim “way back when” also attended, including exhibition designer Richard Miltner who did the unveiling.

During the tour through the library, our museum director and development director drew the attention of the visitors to several rare materials with a political bent. One such item was the late-nineteenth century publication Parties: Problems and Leaders of 1896, which seems all the more relevant today given our present political party deadlock in Congress over the national debt.

GIFT OF IDEAL GLADSTONE IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND, JOHN

The guest also had the opportunity to see a 1920s presentation album featuring designs by John Russell Pope for a monument to “Teddy,” the Republican Roosevelt, as well as several books from the 1930s critical of his Democratic cousin, Franklin.

GIFT OF CHRISTOPHER DENOON

The group also had the opportunity to see some of the rare Cuba-themed materials in our collection that document an era of close American and Cuban economic and cultural ties. Some of the early materials, on long-term loan to the institution by museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., illustrate early twentieth-century promotion of the island to potential American agribusiness investors.

Other Cuban materials in the library collection come from a generous gift made by long-term museum supporter, Vicki Gold Levi, and include hundreds of items relating to the U.S.-Cuba tourist trade from the 1920s to 1950s. Materials include brochures aimed at enticing American tourists to the beautiful beaches and luxurious accommodations to be enjoyed during a stay at the Hotel Varadero.

Other promotional materials from the Vicki Gold Levi Collection encouraged American visitors to shop at El Encanto, billed as “Cuba’s largest and smartest department store.”

Also on view for our visitors were some of the English-language serial guides published in the 1930s and 1940s by the Cuban Tourist Commission and others eager to provide tourists with a glimpse into the “steamship gossip” and social activities to be enjoyed at hotels and other venues.

Other Cuban materials out on display were published in Spanish and intended for the locals. During the war years, many magazine covers linked the struggle for Cuban independence with the patriotic struggle against Nazism and fascism in Europe.

Finally, courtesy of a donation by Michelle Oka Doner, the library also holds some rare invitations and programs from the opening festivities of the Habana Hilton between March 18 and 22, 1958.

The celebrations, however, were obviously short-lived with the fall of the Batista dictatorship the following year, and the ascension to power of the Communist dictator, Fidel Castro, determined to put an end to “Yankee imperialism” in the island nation.

In addition to the rare books, periodicals, and other ephemeral materials donated by persons interested in finding permanent homes for their cherished collections, the Wolfsonian-FIU library has also received many works originally collected by design researchers and enthusiasts with a specific project or agenda in mind. Sometimes these collections grew slowly over time as an individual began collecting a few items here and there related to a lifelong obsession or passion; other times, items were selected deliberately and relatively quickly as authors and researchers prepared publications or exhibitions.

Over the last few years, the Wolfsonian-FIU library has had the privilege of collaborating with a number of educators, enthusiasts, and authors interested in design aesthetics. Vicki Gold Levi, for example, has assembled a large collection of materials, ranging in topic from the promotion of Atlantic City as a resort town; the U.S.-Cuba tourist trade in the pre-Castro era; Times Square and Broadway productions in New York City; and U.S. “Victory” propaganda from the Second World War. Following the publication with Steve Heller of Cuba Style: Graphics from the Golden Age of Design (2002), Vicki gifted several hundred rare periodicals, advertisements, and other ephemeral items to our library. She has since worked with Mr. Heller on another publication, Times Square Style (2004) and again gifted some of the original items acquired in the course of researching that book to the Wolfsonian library for which we are deeply grateful.

Steve Heller not only consulted and used a substantial number of Wolfsonian objects and artifacts in writing his Iron Fists: Branding the Twentieth Century Totalitarian State; he also assembled an impressive collection of primary resource materials on his own. Following the publication of his impressive tome, he generously donated hundreds of Italian Fascist, German National Socialist, and Russian and Chinese Communist visual propaganda to the museum. Although the Wolfsonian is renowned for its collection of political propaganda from this period, there was virtually no duplication in the donation, and the gift has done much to add to our strength and depth on the subject.

HIGHLIGHTS OF A GIFT OF STEVEN HELLER

HIGHLIGHTS OF A GIFT OF WILLIAM H. HELFAND

Local Miami artist and long-time Wolfsonian supporter, Michelle Oka Doner also pulled together an impressive collection of Miami Beach memorabilia in the course of working with Micky Wolfson to create an artistic memoir, Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden: Lives Seen through the Prism of Family and Place. Her beautifully crafted book (which uses natural materials in each limited edition binding) documents the development of Miami Beach as a tourist destination from the 1930s through the 1960s. As both the book and the archive of photographs, blueprints, clippings, and correspondence she later donated to the library demonstrates, Michelle and Micky’s fathers ably served as Miami Beach mayors and were “movers and shakers” who helped transform and shape the image, history, and culture of the city.

HIGHLIGHTS OF A GIFT OF MICHELLE OKA DONER

Frederic A. Sharf, (who recently donated more than fifty rare view books documenting the Spanish American war, the Russo-Japanese war and Sino-Japanese conflicts), not only loaned and gifted some extraordinary automotive design drawings for an exhibition our curators were organizing; he also introduced us to Theodore W. Pietsch III. Theodore’s father was a talented automobile design artist and had left his son a large collection of sketchbooks and design drawings, many of which were reproduced in Theodore W. Pietsch II (1912-1993) and the Development of Automobile Design in the Golden Age. In the wake of the publication and an exhibition held at the Wolfsonian, Frederic Sharf facilitated the donation of thirty sketchbooks and a hundred or so drawings by Ted Pietsch by his son, establishing the Wolfsonian as an important repository of automotive design history. The librarians and digital library specialist are feverishly working to catalog and link digital images of these original works to our OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). http://207.67.203.78/W10054