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Sales models depicting your project’s 115 ASHFORD CASTLE: THE IRISH GETAWAY BEYOND COMPARE true-to-life colors, materials, textures, lighting and fiber optics, with fully detailed 118 LOVING LESVOS Sharing my family journey to my father’s departments vehicles and people homeland on this charming Greek isle Editor’s Letter 14 Gadgets 16-17 122 JFK & CIA SPYMASTER JAMES National Event Guide 18,20 JESUS ANGLETON Entertainment 21,23 With JFK expert Jefferson Morley Broadway Across America 22,24 Dining guide 25 Dishing With The James Beard Foundation President 26 Social Living 58 Fashion 59-62 What Women Want 63-64 Medical News 65 Gentlemen’s Corner 68-69 Sketch Scale Art Worth Repeating 93 69 NW 9th Street, Suite 1 • Miami, Fl. 33136 Antiquities Conservation 97 (786) 449-2049 • e-mail: [email protected] Business Profile 98 Real Estate 134-144 www.sketchscale.com Condo Law 136 By appointment only 12 Opulence Winter 2017/18 editor’s letter HORIZON A HEARTFELT PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER & OWNER David Hammond, CEO FAREWELL TO Jayne Hammond, President EDITOR IN CHIEF A PIONEER Robin Jay [email protected] SENIOR CREATIVE ART DIRECTOR Adriana Naylor e was known as a modern-day Renaissance [email protected] 954-331-3912 man. In 2010, Geoff Hammond (a Citadel MARKETING MANAGER scholar, engineer, songwriter, Air Force Top Melissa Bryant H [email protected] Gun pilot, author and businessman) listened intently as we presented the idea of launching 954-331-3390 South Florida Opulence magazine. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Kim Golightly To many, the idea of starting a print magazine – one published on custom-milled stock [email protected] 954-999-9087 with unprecedented cover embellishments and intensely researched content – would have BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT sounded preposterous in an era in which paperless and postage-free digital media gained Michael Jay [email protected] market share at lightning speed. But not to Geoff. At the end of the presentation, the Chair- 954-593-5060 man and Co-Founder of CSI International (a firm providing facilities services to Fortune 500 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT Karen Talbot Evans headquarters, buildings, universities and at that time property management to luxury con- 954-663-1786 [email protected] dominiums), stood, raised his eyebrow and paused. The silence was deafening. But then, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Personalized the tall, shrewd and dashing Hammond stood and said, ‘Yes! Let’s do this. Let’s publish a John D. Adams Alona Abbady Martinez magazine so thoughtful in design and rich in content that readers will savor and collect it.’ Stephanie Bowman Diego Meraviglia Jose Boza Jill Patterson advice Music to my ears. Melissa Bryant Ava Roosevelt Shannon Casey Todd R. 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