Alan Faena Explained

Alan Faena
Birth Name:Alan Roger Faena
Birth Date:28 November 1963[1]
Birth Place:Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:Real estate development, hotels, fine art
Children:1
Spouse:Grace Goldsmith (2023)

Alan Roger Faena (born 28 November 1963, in Buenos Aires)[1] is an Argentine hotelier and real estate developer[2] [3] [4] [5] who has developed properties in his native Buenos Aires, as well as Miami Beach, Florida.[6] [7]

Faena is the founder and President of Faena Group.[8] He is a member of the Tate International Committee and the New Museum Leaders Council.[9] He previously founded Via Vai in 1985, an Argentine fashion label, and worked as a fashion designer.[6]

Early life

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1963 to a Syrian immigrant family, his father was a textile manufacturer.[10] [11] [5] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Career

Early career

In 1985, Faena followed in his parents footsteps into the textile industry and founded the fashion label Via Vai at age 19.[5] [6] [7] He launched the brand with 50 colored shirts he funded himself.[5] The brand expanded to include ready-to-wear collections and a denim line. Faena sold the company in 1996.[5]

Faena Buenos Aires

Faena was a fashion designer for over ten years before beginning a career in real estate development in 2000.[6] [8] He partnered with Len Blavatnik, Philippe Starck and Foster + Partners to redevelop abandoned docklands in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.[8] [12] Foster + Partner's residential condominium in re-development was their first project in South America.[5] The Faena Hotel designed by Starck opened in 2004.[7]

The Faena District, which is estimated to be a $200 million development, is the most valuable real estate in Buenos Aires.[6] [7] The Faena Arts Center, a converted flour mill located in the center of the district, opened in September 2011 and displays the work of local and international artists.[6] [7] [16]

In November 2011, German artist Franz Ackermann exhibited the results of his voyages around Buenos Aires with the largest mural of his career in the center.[17] The Cuban duo Los Carpinteros debuted their first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires at the arts center in May 2012.[17]

Faena Miami Beach

Faena expanded his brand to Miami Beach with a $1 billion[18] project to develop a six block waterfront property.[6] [19] [20] Construction on the Miami Beach Faena District began in 2013.[21]

The project includes the restoration of the 1948 Saxony hotel, and an arts center, Faena Forum, by architect Rem Koolhaas and OMA and residences by Foster + Partners.[2] [6] [22]

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin are also involved in the project as designers for the interior of the Faena Hotel Miami Beach.[23] [24]

The district will be landscaped by Miami-based firm Raymond Jungles.[25] The Faena House, an 18-story residential unit, is the project's first building scheduled for completion.[7] [18]

Personal life

Faena was married to Ximena Caminos, the couple having a son together.[4] They separated in 2009.[26] Alan Married Grace Goldsmith on March 4, 2023. Alan Faena crashed Grace Goldsmith’s mother’s birthday party at Saxony Bar in May 2021, where he met Grace.[27]

Paradise Papers

On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Faena was director and CEO of half a dozen offshore companies in Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. Faena also appears with bank accounts in Luxembourg and the Isle of Man, linked to different hotels and real estate projects in Puerto Madero.[28]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faena Art Introduces Artist In Residence Program. Forbes. 2023-02-10 . Caroline Tell.
  2. March 2014. A Miami Remake. Travel + Leisure.
  3. Miami Dreams. Privat Property.
  4. Ohly Evans. Christina. May 17, 2014. Alan Faena. Financial Times Travel Unravelled.
  5. Web site: Alan Faena's Argentine Residence. 21 May 2013. Elisa Lipsky-Karasz. 11 November 2014.
  6. Spencer. Samuel. Alan Faena: Argentina's Developer of Cultural Dreams.
  7. Dittrich. Guy. October 2014. Meeting Alan Faena. Sleeper Global Hotel Design.
  8. Eidell. Lynsey. City Scapers. Worth.
  9. Web site: Argentina's new arts district is built "from scratch". Christian Viveros-Fauné. 12 April 2012. 11 November 2014.
  10. Flying High. Nov 17, 2015. Holly Brubach. W. His family, Sephardic Jews who emigrated from Syria to Argentina in the 1920s, had a successful textile business..
  11. News: Alexandra . Wolfe . Alan Faena Takes On Miami Beach . The Wall Street Journal. August 19, 2016 . He was born to a Jewish family in Buenos Aires, the son of the owner of a textile company and a homemaker..
  12. June 2014. Alan Faena. Lifestyle Magazine Brasil. His family, Sephardic Jews who emigrated from Syria to Argentina in the 1920s, had a successful textile business. .
  13. Web site: Art and Soul. Michael Tannenbaum. 11 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141219141041/http://www.bespoke-magazine.com/26/Article/Art-and-Soul. 19 December 2014. dead.
  14. Brauner . Susana . Torres . Rayen . 2022-10-14 . Orthodoxy and Disaffiliation among Argentine Jews of Syrian Origin in Buenos Aires, from the 60s until today . Hamsa. Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies . en . 8 . 10.4000/hamsa.2824 . 2183-2633. free .
  15. Web site: 2019-10-11 . Alan Faena: The Passionate Inspiration For Dynamic Urban Transformation And Creativity Dolce Luxury Magazine . 2023-12-09 . dolcemag.com . en-US.
  16. Web site: Buenos Aires' Faena Arts Center Opens in a Renovated Mill With a Colorful Interactive Installation. 14 February 2012. Ana Lisa. 11 November 2014.
  17. Web site: Underground art goes upscale in Buenos Aires. 11 November 2014.
  18. Web site: Blankfein Said to Buy Into $1 Billion Miami Condo Project. 12 September 2013. Katya Kazakina. . 11 November 2014.
  19. Web site: Faena, the developer behind the $550m revival of Miami's Saxony Hotel. 12 April 2012. Agustino Fontevecchia. . 11 November 2014.
  20. Web site: Forbes Tries to Figure Out Alan Faena's Saxony Hotel. 5 December 2012. Jackie Goldstein. 11 November 2014.
  21. Web site: Alan Faena, The Developer Behind The $550M Revival Of Miami's Saxony Hotel. 4 December 2012. Agustino Fontevecchia. . 19 April 2016.
  22. Web site: Koolhaas and Foster Mean Starchitect-O-Mania At the Saxony. 6 June 2012. Sean McCaughan. 11 November 2014.
  23. Web site: Exclusive: Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin to Design Interiors, Uniforms for Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach. 4 December 2013. Chris Rovzar. . 11 November 2014.
  24. Web site: Baz Luhrmann's Next Project: Miami's Faena Saxony Hotel. 24 February 2014. Nate Freeman. 11 November 2014.
  25. Web site: Faena Releases Five Short Videos On Designing Faena House. 7 January 2013. Sean McCaughan. 11 November 2014.
  26. Web site: Miami hotel guru Alan Faena just quietly split with his wife. What happened?. Miami Herald. 2023-05-31.
  27. Web site: Inside Alan Faena and Grace Goldsmith’s Theatrical Four-Day Wedding in Buenos Aires. Vogue. 2023-03-23. 2023-05-31 . Elise Taylor.
  28. News: Alan Faena, otro argentino en Paradise Papers. 7 November 2017. Perfil. 7 November 2017. 7 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107213019/http://www.perfil.com/paradisepapers/alan-faena-otro-argentino-en-paradise-papers-firmas-offshore-y-cuentas-en-suiza-y-luxemburgo.phtml. dead.

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