WE DREAM, DESIGN, BUILD & CUSTOMIZE HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCES FOR BARS, RESTAURANTS, NIGHTCLUBS, EVENTS, BOUTIQUE VENUES & SPECIALTY PRODUCTS
Who We Are...
Mark Alan Diaz Design - AKA MAD Collab.
Established in the summer of 2000, a collective of collaborative beings grounded in Hospitality, guided by the passion for Design, Process, and Progressive Thinking, came together to Make Magic! We love to dream, design, explore, create, personalize, build, customize, curate, and craft progressive hospitality experiences for projects with a Real Voice. This Inner Voice can be seen and felt in our over 100+ Bars, Nightclubs, Restaurants, Events, and Boutique Venues completed over the last 25 years. We pride ourselves on developing Strong Narratives, Refined Details, Realistic Thinking, and our accurate sense of thoughtful discernment and taste, which, of course, we oversee in all of our projects. We wish to return considerable richness and enthusiasm to the design world, clients, and our friends.
What We Do...
We deliver! It’s that simple. We dive deep into thought, dream up narratives for each space, and then we create! We have designed, built, concepted, and collaborated on some of the most well-known taste-making hospitality projects in Miami before expanding to the left coast - Los Angeles, California. We have now dipped our toes into the waters and land of Costa Rica to explore Eco-Design-Building. We love to exceed your expectations, and we promise we will. Seriously. We spend our time getting to know you, the project, the vision, your tribe, your competitors, and your neighbors before we start. We make every consideration possible to land the best possible result. We are driven to do our best and make the project a place you live and love!
The materials, details, and concepts we generate are developed around your brand and will encompass what you believe in. We bring life and soul into every single thought we present. Often, we will spend lots of time on the smaller details to make sure everything is as perfect as your brand deserves. We spend our time exploring the brand and often add much-needed value to what is an excellent idea/ concept. We love to give and to develop with you. We feel that the best projects are those where the client is the instigator of what they want to bring to their guests, followers, employees, and inhabitants of the space. We can and will complement any style or design you are trying to achieve while making it personal to you and your brand.
“We sculpt thought into reality, combining form and function while developing your dreams into reality.”
MAD - Mark Alan Diaz…
Mark Alan Diaz loves to design, build, and consult on projects that dream to touch people’s lives. He channels the project or brand’s inner voice. He dreams and feels through that which desires to be expressed in the physical and mold that expression into reality. He occasionally nudges that reality to speak its loudest, truest voice, proudly as if it’s dancing while no one is looking.
Award-winning designer and interior architect Mark Alan Diaz has designed and built for some of the world's largest companies and brands, including Chanel, Tiffany's, Bergdorf Goodman, Burberry, Redbull, Jaguar, and Illy's coffee. He takes that experience and brings the design detailing to all his hospitality projects.
With an Architectural Design Degree from Florida International University, Diaz has been at the leading edge of design for the hospitality space for over 25 years, designing interiors for over 100 bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.
What makes Mark Alan Diaz one of the most innovative and effective Interior Architects in Hospitality Design today and separates him from all other designers and architects is his experience working in the hospitality industry for 15 years before he started designing for them. He has been building for Bars, restaurants, and nightclubs for 25 years now and truly understands what makes a space tick! With over 300,000 sqft of designed retail space, over 400,000 sqft of event environmental space created, and dreaming up Long Feng Art Car, the biggest art car that has ever been built at Burning Man, he has literally seen it all.
Diaz designed the Cultural Icon, The Electric Pickle in Miami, named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 10 nightclubs in the world. He led the award-winning restaurant, Kaido, in Miami's Paradise Plaza and served as the Creative Director and designer for Jugofresh, which won the HD Magazine Interior Design Award.
Expanding on his prolific and versatile experience designing venues, Diaz has designed sets, stages, and spaces for the entertainment industry. He designed, engineered, and built the set for Hillsong, the world's largest Christian network, created the VIP lounge for Fillmore Live, and was the lead designer for Summit Series LA19.
Mark Alan Diaz is also a recognized innovative materialist, luxury retail interior architect and designer, and a fine-finish carpentry and design builder. His creative process reflects a unique approach. Diaz draws upon a wide range of materials to express a venue's unique identity and tell a hidden story that wants to be shared.
Diaz has spoken at ‘Bar & Restaurant Expo’, formerly known as Nightclub & Bar Show in Las Vegas, capturing a national audience as a finalist on HGTV's Design Star, America's top-ranked design competition reality show.
Mark’s inventive style transforms everyday life, one space and one object at a time. He has been bringing an influential juxtaposition of build-design projects to the hospitality (bars, restaurants, nightclubs), retail, music, and television industries since 1997.
MAD – AKA Dreamer / Compulsive Think-aholic / Mr. Details / MAD Craftsman / Textural Intuitive
Pedigree…
Mark is happy to announce his newest collaboration with Architectura Mixta in designing and building the LONG FENG Art Car for Burning Man, Coachella, and Art Basel Miami. As the Creative Director and Co-Led Architect, this roaming theatrical art sculpture has expanded what Diaz thought was possible.
Some of Mark’s favorite interior architecture has been with his longtime friend and Executive Chef Brad Kilgore, in Miami’s fastest growing luxury shopping district, known as the Miami Design District. The latest creations include Ember Restaurant, Kaido, and Ama, designed and built within the Freeland Buck Designed Facade.
Mark has also worked with and alongside Hillsong, RedBull, Open Vessel and Barteluce Architects & Associates (now Callison Architects, as of 2011) and the late Randall A. Ridless Interior Design revolutionizing fixtures and furniture offerings for Bergdorf Goodman, Verdura, Lambertson Truex, Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany’s, Burberry and Saks Fifth Avenue, and became the Assistant Furniture Designer for Cartier and Assistant Project Architect for Madison Jaguar and Parkway Toyota.
He has also worked alongside Designers as Nathan Taylor (Hillsong), Stephane Dupoux (Ceilo Nightclub), Juan Carlos Arcila-Duque (Mynt Nightclub), and Michael Wolk (Furniture Design).
Additional well-known hospitality clients have been Jack Penrod (Pearl & Nikki Beach), David Tornek (Meat Market & Touch Restaurant), and Executive Chef Roly Cruz-Taura (Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables).
Mark Alan Diaz + Long Feng Art Car