Inside the Lush Modern Miami Beach Home of Shutterstock Founder Jon Oringer

Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer shelled out a whopping $42 million back in 2020 for a monumental contemporary mansion in South Florida with some major league pedigree. He and his wife, Talia, acquired the home from art collectors Stephen and Petra Levin, who picked it up in 2013 for $30 million—one of the highest sales ever recorded in Miami Beach at that time—from former MLBer Alex Rodriguez.

In the intervening years, the Oringers went to work renovating the seven-bedroom spread, working with a star-studded team to soften up the chunky and linear structure, a 21,000-square-foot abode facing Biscayne Bay in Miami Beach. Architect Blaze Makoid of BMA Architects worked with To Better Days Building on the bones of the project, while the lauded designer Kelly Behun took on the interiors, and the aptly named Raymond Jungles led the landscaping efforts. 

The result is a boxy contemporary, all straight lines and 90-degree corners that’s been softened on the exterior by natural elements such as wood and teeming with organic forms, natural materials, and earthy tones on the inside. The gathering spaces, while grand in scale, maintain a cozy feel with curving shapes and plush fabrics. A sculptural staircase with curved wood railings and Venetian plaster walls anchors the foyer; the smooth-paneled living room has thick wall-to-wall carpeting and boulder-like light fixtures dangling from the double-height ceiling; and the corners of the massive island in the kitchen are rounded. The nearby breakfast nook looks out to a verdant wall of tropical plantings, and a wall of windows in the family room slides open to a lushly planted atrium and koi pond.

The swooping pattern of the carpeting is echoed in the built-in wooden bed frame in the primary suite, which also includes a garden-view bathroom and a serene walk-in closet with a swirling, three-dimensional ceiling treatment reminiscent of visionary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. Elsewhere, you’ll find a screening room, a gym with a sauna, and a whimsical children’s playroom with cloud-printed walls, a hanging chair in the shape of a sloth, and a pill-shaped window looking down into the living room below.

An interior atrium with a koi pond is accessible from many of the main-floor rooms, while, from the back, the home feels more of a piece with many modern Miami mansions. The sharp lines of the structure are mimicked by the sleek infinity pool that looks out on Biscayne Bay. At one end of the pool, there’s an open-air cabana with an outdoor kitchen and lounge seating. 

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