Privy Prive

As part of the Opium Gardens complex, Prive has already made a sensation as one of the newest nightclubs in Miami’s South Beach.

Opium Gardens includes several distinctive areas – exceptional dance areas, out of the ordinary restaurants, and the ultra VIP lounge, Prive. Euro-chic in styling with an eclectic color scheme, Prive is a feast for the senses, and the place where Miami’s up-scale crowd go to unwind.

Francois Frossard design
In addition to all the amenities of an exclusive lounge, Prive features a sophisticated interior design conceived by Fancois Frossard of Francois Frossard Design. “Prive was the ultimate challenge,” he comments, “to transform a narrow, irregularly shaped room into an ultra-chic intimate VIP lounge.”

Frossard highlighted the natural contours of the room through the use of slight changes in elevation and distinct seating areas. Over-scaled columns were created to change the scale of vision as patrons enter the room but also to provide an optical illusion of the room’s scale. Two contrasting lexan-acrylic mirror bars at opposing ends of the room create motion when entering the room, giving a sense of an oversized space.

Total Club Supplier installation
In maintaining the ultra VIP intimacy, a first class sound system and light show brings the reality of this unique nightclub into the upscale lounge. Supplied and installed by Paradise Sounds Entertainment, Inc. of Miami, Prive features Martin lighting, Mach sound and Jem smoke, making it a Martin Professional Total Club Supplier installation.

Lighting design is by Francois Frossard with contributions from Martin’s Club and Leisure Segment Manager, Dave Chesal. During the initial stages of construction, Dave was encouraged by Paradise Sounds, the owners of Opium Garden and Francois to get involved in the project. Although Prive doesn’t boast an abundance of lighting and sound equipment, the owners were keen to ‘push the envelope’ and produce something out of the ordinary through fine attention to detail.

Recessed MAC 250 Profiles and MX-4 moving mirrors
Martin MAC 250 profile moving heads and MX-4 color and pattern projecting moving mirrors are used throughout the lounge. All intelligent lighting fixtures are discreetly recessed – only the moving mirror on the MX-4 scanners is visible through the ceiling for example, and the MAC 250s are tucked away so that only the illumination head itself is seen - no base or cabling is visible.

The recessed MAC 250s follow the contour of the room, and were placed centrally in the ceiling to take advantage of the moving head’s range of motion. The wide range of movement from the 250s is complemented by the fast mirror speed of the MX-4s, which are located randomly throughout the room. A Jem TechnoHaze provides a translucent environment of virtually imperceptible haze to enhance the light beam projection.

MAC 250 Profiles were chosen as color and pattern projectors partly because the owners desired to keep continuity of fixtures. They are used in one other space on the property, namely in outdoor protection domes in the open-air dance floor area.

Fiber optic
The lightshow is topped off with FiberSource CMY 150s with stranded endlight fiber optic cable. The faux capitals on the large columns running down the middle of the room are accentuated with backlit paper treatment. Recessed within the faux capital, providing illumination onto the columns, are FiberSource powered fiber optic downlights fitted with oval shaped ends.

Mach sound system
The Prive sound system comes courtesy of Mach speakers. Mach Installation Series M182i subwoofers are recessed throughout the room while Mach M129i medium-throw top boxes are discreetly pocketed within soffits.

Mach M72i and M82i compact 2-way near field speakers are used as infill while a pair of Mach M127i full range top boxes serve as DJ monitors in the centrally located DJ Booth. All speakers are controlled via a Mach M20.06 processor.