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ON THE SCENE 30 MIAMI LIVING In the "Magic City," art, fashion, and design are king. From Fashion Week to Art Basel to the upcoming Maison & Objet, Miami is where the world comes to discover and set trends. It's no wonder South Florida stakes claim to some of the top international brands and experts shaping these industries. Yet for South Florida's burgeoning design sector, perhaps no locale owns the luxury landscape like the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach. DCOTA offers professional designers and design enthusiasts more than 775,000 square-feet of luxury design showrooms and class A office space. The design mecca pays homage to all things interior design as one of the world's largest design/office campuses. Brands such as VERSACE Home, Duralee, Judith Norman Collection, and Jeffrey Michaels reside at DCOTA. More recently, it welcomed Lamborghini Tonino Casa and Aston Martin to its stellar portfolio of 70 showrooms, collectively featuring more than a thousand premier manufacturers from around the globe. For designers of every rank, it presents a treasure trove of unique, hard-to-find, exquisite furnishings, fabrics, décor, and flooring for high-end homes, yachts, and commercial projects. For U.S. and international affluent customers, DCOTA is a shopper's paradise – or what Marcel Menegolla, the business developer for Brazilian brand Florense, has called "a one-stop shop for designers." That is why he opened the company's third store in the U.S. at DCOTA in 2013. DCOTA is owned and operated by Cohen Design Centers, which also has luxury facilities in New York, Los Angeles and Houston, and is connected to Cohen Brothers Reality, which oversees more than 12 million-square-feet of prime office and showroom space throughout Manhattan and other major markets. Charles S. Cohen, owner and CEO of Cohen Design Centers, acquired DCOTA in 2005, before investing more than $30 million to renovate the space, including lighting and landscaping, magnificent Atriums and expanded event space, opening DCOTA Cay, a first class on- site restaurant. "For two world-class design brands such as Versace and Minotti to move from Miami to DCOTA was a major coup and is indicative of DCOTA's ongoing renaissance," said Charles Cohen. DCOTA's Winter Market: Celebrating 30 years of luxury design in Dania Beach