When Miami Beach’s largest oceanfront estate at 5940 North Bay Road returned to the market—this time with a $169 million price tag—it wasn’t just the sheer scale of the home that turned heads.
Set on 2.3 acres with broad bay frontage, the home flows from a ceremonial stair hall to a grand dining salon, full cinema, waterfront billiards room and a fitness wing with spa, sauna and indoor racquetball. Outside, terraces lead to a pool and spa, tennis court and private dock, while a paneled bar lounge and domed primary suite add ceremony and calm with walls of glass keeping the water in view.
The 22,000-square-foot grand gated estate demanded an interior vision that matched its grandeur. That’s where Vesta Home came in. A luxury staging, interior design and furniture studio, Vesta turns square footage into a story—using scale, texture and proportion to give context to space. Tasked with staging the property for a new era of luxury living, Vesta’s senior designer Brianna Smith approached the residence not just as a showpiece, but as a story to be told through design.
“With properties this expansive, the challenge is creating definition,” says Brianna. “Our role as stagers is to ground the space—to bring scale, comfort and cohesion so prospective buyers can envision themselves truly living here. You want to define zones of intimacy while still celebrating the volume of the architecture.”
Across the living areas, a sun-baked palette of ivory, sand and pale caramel softens the geometric strength of the home’s architecture. The glossy marble floors and honeyed wood paneling catch the light that floods in through full-height windows, creating a natural warmth that flows from room to room.
Brianna layered textural boucle, soft linen, and brushed metal to bring quiet luxury into focus. Sculptural seating—Vesta’s Kennedy sofa sectional and rounded armchairs—anchors each conversation area, their silhouettes echoing the gentle arc of the bay beyond. “The view is the art,” she notes, “so every furnishing decision was made to frame it rather than compete with it.”
In a home where nearly every room feels palatial, proportion becomes everything. Vesta defined multiple moments within the vast open plan: a pair of curved conversation areas that create intimacy within openness—one anchored by a bold black-and-white abstract artwork, the other oriented toward the fireplace. Oversized pillows, natural ceramics, and layered textiles lend a lived-in ease, inviting you to settle in and take in the views from every angle of the room.
The bar became one of Vesta’s favorite vignettes. With so much warm-figured wood wrapping the room, Brianna looked for a way to break up the tone. The answer was metal: contemporary wire-frame bar stools introduce negative space, draw clean vertical lines and give the millwork a crisp counterpoint. Light upholstery on the seats keeps the palette soft, while mirrored shelving and silver lamps bounce a gentle glow across the stone top. The result feels tailored and modern, letting the craftsmanship of the wood sing.
In the primary suite, flanked by full-height mirrors and enveloped in tone-on-tone textures, Vesta used reflection to draw in natural light and elongate the room. The palette stays hushed—ivory, stone, pale taupe—so the room can breathe.
Vesta’s curved Manarola sofa and lounge chair shape a sitting zone at the foot of the bed, their silhouettes breaking the geometry and making the suite feel residential rather than showpiece. The mirrors don’t just bounce light—they pull the ceiling higher and widen the proportions. Art stays abstract and tonal to reinforce calm. A tucked-away desk niche glows like a lantern, useful without stealing focus. It’s quiet luxury by design—measured, livable, unmistakably elevated.
At this level of luxury, staging isn’t about spectacle—it’s about translation. “We want buyers to feel what life could look like here,” Brianna notes. “Even in a house this monumental, it should still feel like home.”