glitter and gold

Luxurious seems so inadequate a word for Miami's Porsche Design Tower. Opulence isn't the half of it. The digitized blue prints project a future of sprawling duplex and triplex apartments with private pools and gardens and floor-to-ceiling glass facing the Atlantic.

Even developer Gil Dezer, an avid sports car racer, says it's "really over the top," but that's what people are paying for.

The obsidian tower that conveys precious sports cars from Collins Ave. to penthouses unseen...and a sales party for nearly half a billion dollars of units sold, replete with fireworks and half-nude male trampoline artists.

The guests to the groundbreaking of this luminous high-rise dressed accordingly -- gold jewelry and diamond watches, tight haute couture mini-dresses, neon colored platform stilettos, pomade and well-cut suits. They chatted in Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, English -- even Yiddish.

The partygoers were there to celebrate Dezer's latest triumph, the tower the amiable and extremely rich prince beachfront development. It was his father, the titan of building Michael Dezer, who dreamed up this fantastical structure with the robotic car elevator, allowing celebrities and the uber-rich to ascend anonymously behind the tinted windows of their expensive cars and into the shell of tinted glass surrounding their penthouses without deigning to be seen by anyone, including the valet. The German designers flew in for the occasion, the first time Porsche Design lent its name and expertise to a residential building.