MIAMI? MINIMAL.

DESIGNER MARTIN BRÛLÉ MAKES FABULOUS UNFUSSY IN A SOUTH FLORIDA PIED-À-TERRE.

- CHANTEL TATTOLI

In the entrance hall, the vintage rope chairs are by Christian Astuguevieille. Custom ceramic sconces by Jean Roger. For details, see Resources.

On a gray afternoon in Paris, the Montreal-born interior designer Martin Brûlé-who keeps offices in Brooklyn and here, just off the Tuileries Garden, in a neighborhood of fine art and antiques galleries-studied photographs on his phone of a recent project in Surfside, Florida. "The sun!" Brûlé says with a little laugh and a small sigh.

The dining room of a holiday apartment in Surfside, Florida, in a Richard Meier-designed building with interiors by Martin Brûlé Studio. Pendant by Patrice Dangel for Galerie Alexandre Biaggi; tapestry by Emilio Terry; travertine surfboard by Reena Spaulings; custom dining table; rug by Diurne; plates by Matthieu Cossé.

His clients had come to him with an apartment in one of the two residential towers added in 2017 to the city's historic Surf Club, which opened nearly a century ago. Richard Meier, the architect of the towers, delivered a pitch-perfect update to the club's Mediterranean Revival style and country-club-on-a-beach sensibility, says Brûlé, and the long and open layout of the original three-bedroom residence, which the renovation saw converted into a one-bedroom pied-à-terre with an office and a yoga room, wasn't anything either the owners or Brûlé had a mind to change.