Crimson & Yellow & Hot Pink

Crimson is the nightclub interior — the deep vivid cool-red of the South Beach nightclub interior design of the 1980s. The specific mid-1980s South Beach nightclub aesthetic (created by designers including the partnership of Barbara Capitman and Morris Lapidus for the Art Deco preservation movement, and the interior designers of the most celebrated South Beach clubs of the period — the Warsaw Ballroom, the Club Nu, and the Cameo) used deep crimson as the primary vivid warm interior color — the deep red of the upholstered seating, the crimson-filtered lighting, and the dramatic warm color statements of the nightclub environment. Yellow is the Miami sun — the vivid solar yellow of the Miami summer sky and the Art Deco architecture's most vivid color accents. South Beach's Art Deco buildings (predominantly constructed 1920s-1940s, restored from the 1970s onward) use a palette of pastels and vivid accents — and the most vivid warm accent in the Art Deco vocabulary is the solar yellow of the most dramatically designed facades (the Colony Hotel, the Webster Hotel, and the most photographically celebrated deco facades of Ocean Drive). Hot Pink is the neon — the electric vivid pink of the South Beach neon sign tradition — the hot-pink neon glow that defines the visual character of the South Beach nighttime environment. The specific South Beach neon vocabulary uses hot pink (in contrast to the blue-white neon of Times Square or the red-orange neon of more utilitarian commercial signage) as the primary nightlife color — the pink neon of the hotel signs, the nightclub facades, and the poolside bar signage creates the most recognizably Miami nighttime visual quality.