To look at it now, it all feels effortless. A pair of vintage Eames chairs converse in the living room, subtly setting the home’s tone. A collection of the husband’s string instruments forms a procession in the entry hallway. Light fixtures hover midair with sculptural intent. Every element sits in harmony, each choice amplifying the next.
Yet when Eisen Design House first stepped into the project, there was no rhythm at all—just raw concrete and the promise of what could be. Back then, the building was still a hard-hat zone in the early planning phases. Designers Cheryl Eisen and Shannon Slattery saw the blank slate as an opportunity. “It’s rare to design a home alongside the birth of a neighborhood, watching the neighborhood transform around it,” Slattery says.
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Naples-based Cheryl Eisen and fellow designer Shannon Slattery conceived this condo at Marriott International-branded The Residences at The Tampa EDITION to balance hotel polish with personal warmth. Vintage Eames lounge chairs anchor the living room, while a palette of pale woods and soft textures emphasizes expansive water and city views.
They collaborated with the developer and AV team to help guide the condo’s infrastructure, ensuring it would support the homeowners’ daily lives. “[We were able to] advise on floor plans, millwork details and all the construction decisions that make a big impact later,” she adds. As construction advanced, their focus shifted to custom finishes, specialty wall treatments and the furnishings that complete the transformation from shell to personal sanctuary.
Part of the Marriott International-branded The Residences at The Tampa EDITION, the condo represents the new frontier of real estate that’s soon to arrive in Southwest Florida, with The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Naples and Estero Bay, Rosewood Residences Naples and the Four Seasons’ Naples Beach Club Residences. Eisen, who now calls Naples home, sees this evolution as a sign of a shifting luxury landscape. “There’s no question that hotel-branded residential towers have become a hallmark,” she says. “But what interests me most is not repeating the brand’s aesthetic—it’s about creating individuality within that framework.”
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Custom dark wood built-ins appear to float without brackets, with cabinet doors sitting flush in their frames and hardware receding into wood. Layered seating arrangements throughout flex between cocktail parties and movie nights. The tight palette—oak, light stone, brushed brass—creates unity without feeling matchy.
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Her philosophy aligned perfectly with her clients’ next chapter. After two decades raising their family in a big suburban home, they were ready to downsize and were lured to hotel living by the prospect of five-star amenities, on-site cafes and a built-in community. But they didn’t want to lose the character or sense of comfort that makes a space feel like home.
Arriving with a clear sensibility and a few cherished pieces, the couple trusted the designers to reinterpret their style for a new context. To ground the new design in authenticity, Slattery toured the couple’s former home, noting the gestures and details that made it distinctly theirs. The designers wanted to create a retreat that reflected the duo’s love of music and art while harmonizing with the ease of residential hotel living.
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The couple arrived with cherished pieces and a clear sensibility after two decades in a suburban home. They trusted Eisen Design House to reinterpret their style for hotel living. The result borrows from both worlds: the polish of luxury hospitality, the intimacy of a collected life.
Starting with a muted, tonal base of pale woods, warm stone and soft textures, the designers created a canvas for furnishings and fabrics that could emphasize the expansive water and city views. Layered seating arrangements in the living areas flex between cocktail parties and movie nights. “Even the practical details were designed with entertaining in mind,” Slattery says, referring to the surfaces for books and cocktails and integrated shelving that keeps collected treasures within reach. “The architecture provides openness, but the design provides warmth, flow and purpose.”
As they furnished the home, the designers chose pieces that could stand up to the couple’s bold art while still inviting everyday use. The Eames lounge chairs, carried over from their previous home, became the natural starting point. Rounded silhouettes—seen in the Mario Bellini Cab dining chairs, various side tables and the bedrooms’ artful light fixtures—echo the Eames’ curves, while the black carries through graphic elements, like the moody Venetian plaster wall at the entry. In the living room, a clear acrylic coffee table nods to midcentury design, while lightening the space and showing off the geometric rug beneath. A second table in ebonized oak provides a counterweight.
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Cerused white oak built-ins and antique brass rods add dimension in the snug room off the primary suite, creating a small retreat that doubles as workspace and media lounge.
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Dark Venetian plaster in the entryway provides a unifying backdrop for the driftwood sculptures, a velvet bench and large circular mirror with brass frame.
The palette stays tight and warm—oak, pale stone, brushed brass—creating unity without feeling matchy. Only one room, the daughter’s bedroom, departs from the organic scheme, with soft pink walls that evoke a cocoon-like retreat for when she visits from college. Still, the design discipline holds: Just as throughout the rest of the condo, built-in cabinetry provides storage without visual weight and keeps sight lines open.
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Built-in cabinetry maintains the design discipline, providing storage without visual weight.
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Most bedrooms keep with the organic scheme, but one distinguishes itself through soft pink walls.
More than an aesthetic cue, the Eames chairs set the benchmark for craftsmanship. All the millwork matches the iconic modernist designers’ devotion to invisible craft. The living room’s dark walnut built-ins appear to float without brackets, cabinet doors sit flush in their frames, hardware recedes into wood. Everything looks deceptively simple, but deeply considered.
Personal history runs through the condo. The client, who received his first stand-up bass when he was 5 years old, studied with longtime Yo-Yo Ma collaborator Edgar Meyer, then went to college on a music scholarship. The instruments he collected over the years hang in the entry hallway that links the living spaces and bedrooms. “We chose to display his instruments essentially like sculptures,” Slattery says.
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The homeowners’ string instrument collection hangs in the entry hallway.
Brass brackets, recalling metallic elements throughout the home, mount each instrument in ascending order; clean, even lighting shows off the woods’ lustrous grain while casting subtle shadows. The gallery-like hallway terminates in an Alex Katz portrait with electric blue brushwork that pulls your eye through the space. “Together, the art and instruments give the home its cultural heartbeat,” the designer says.
For the art collection, the couple has to agree on every new acquisition, focusing on contemporary artists who are still shaping the cultural conversation. “They only acquire pieces by artists active during their lifetime, from 1970 forward,” Slattery says. With works by Lalla Essaydi, Patrick Naggar and the late Tampa artist Theo Wujcik, the collection is contemporary but not trendy, personal but not esoteric, bold but curated.
In some places, architecture functions as art. A floating Cristallo quartzite vanity in the powder room fulfills the client’s request for a backlit feature while setting a striking scene. The designers chose the icy white surface for its ethereal translucence. “We set out to find the perfect slab that wasn’t too yellow or too busy but just the right amount of movement and warmth,” Slattery says. “Once backlit, it glows from within like a piece of sculpture.”
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A floating Cristallo quartzite vanity glows from within like a sculpture when backlit.
Textural detail also enlivens the clean geometry in the kitchen, with open shelving in staggered heights, warm wood tones and a mix of matte and polished finishes. In the snug room off the primary suite, cerused white oak and antique brass rods add dimension and warmth, creating a small retreat that doubles as a workspace and media lounge.
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The kitchen pairs SieMatic cabinetry with open shelving in staggered heights, warm wood tones, and a mix of matte and polished finishes. A floating soapstone breakfast table extends behind the island for cohesive storage niches. The home favors midcentury forms, like the Mario Bellini Cab dining chairs.
“Everything is meant to feel unexpected and intriguing rather than purely polished,” Slattery says. In this composition, matte surfaces play against gloss, metal warms to wood, and vintage tempers the new, lending personality and a sense of lived-in warmth to the sleek frame. By borrowing from both worlds—the ease of luxury hospitality, the intimacy of a collected life—the condo demonstrates what hotel-branded living can be at its best: effortless, refined and forever booked.