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  • A Nous Paris

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    To read the full article click here. Read it online: A Nous Paris

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  • Epicurean Magazine

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    Bubble Charlotte featured in Epicurean Magazine as Charlottes hipest new haunt click here to read press.

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  • Boutique Design Magazine

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    Boutique Design Magazine Names Big Time Design as Most Influential Hospitality Design Firm Over the past two decades, Callin Fortis...

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  • IFJ Magazine

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    IFJ looks at nightclubs across the globe and studies the design and dynamic trends that keep this segment vibrant and...

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  • Secret Society Coffee Table Book

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    Prohibition, which began in January 1920 and ended in December 1933, was without a doubt one of the most unique...

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  • Aspire Magazine

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    They’re lavish palaces of the night; the must-visit venues where it’s cool to be seen and even cooler not to...

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  • Indulge Home Decor Magazine

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    “When you want a space reminiscent of a luxury hotel suite a la Mondrian in South Beach, who better to...

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  • Yahoo! Finance

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    Callin Fortis, co-founder of Big Time Design Studios, will be the keynote speaker for the first Club and Venue Design...

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  • Hotel Design Magazine

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    Fortis: I’m fortunate enough to do extremely high-end, personality-design driven concepts. I did an international rebranding of the biggest nightlife...

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  • Hospitality Architecture + Design

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    “Lighting is always a very important aspect of design,” says Santoro. “For the Betsy we considered not only the light...

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  • El Norte

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    Situado justo frente a la playa de South Beach, The Betsy Hotel no sólo encierra en sus paredes la historia...

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  • Miami New Times “Best of Miami”

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    The last place anyone expects to find anything remotely hip is Ocean Drive. But the renovated Betsy Hotel has done...

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  • Zink Magazine

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    Annointed “everything that was important in Miami” by Urban Daddy in 2009, B Bar is the latest creation of visionary...

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  • Aventura Magazine

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    Shades of dark red, lavender and deep purple, a reflective black vinyl ceiling, and hand-cut Parisian crystal lamps add just...

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  • NBC Miami

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    In a town with more clubs per capita than any place else on earth, it’s more and more difficult for...

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  • Miami Herald

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    For a place that takes the art of cocktailing to the next level, consider B Bar beneath The Betsy Hotel,...

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  • Boutique Design Magazine

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    Echoing the privileged pomp of Prohibition days, the B Bar in the basement of The Betsy has just opened in...

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  • Mondo Magazine

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    The Gatecrasher lion, so symbolic of the brand’s glory days, may have hung up its glow sticks and laid down...

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  • Before Last Call

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    The Miami-based designer is responsible for envisioning some of the most famous nightclubs in the world, developing an empire based...

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  • Mondo Magazine

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    An interview with Callin Fortis, founder of US-based Bigtime Design, on his conceptual design for the new £5 million Gatecrasher...

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  • Night Magazine

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    Uninspired by the UK’s club design, Simon looked abroad and instantly became excited by the work of renowned US nightclub...

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  • METROLIFE

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    Raine believes that clubbers these days want a variety of entertainment presented in the most technologically advanced way possible. To...

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  • Bora Mag

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    Gatecrasher have enlisted the expertise of designers Big Time Design, headed up by a legendary nightclub designer Callin Fortis, to...

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  • 944 Miami

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    100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN NIGHTLIFE – As the duo behind international clubhouse Crobar, Ken Smith and Cal Fortis are...

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  • Bora Mag

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    WORLD’S TOP NIGHTCLUB DESIGNERS: BIGTIME DESIGN – Designer, nightlife impresario and Bigtime co-founder Callin Fortis primarily known for the nightclub...

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  • Pacha

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    Designer, nightlife impresario and Big Time founder Callin Fortis – primarily known for designing and branding the international and award-winning...

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  • Club Systems International

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    Big Time Design wins the Best Nightclub Renovation and gets nominated for Best Nightclub Interior Design for their work on...

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  • Club Systems International

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    NIGHTLIFE’S 30 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE – The iPod of nightlife might not be the perfect analogy, but it certainly matches...

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  • Lighting & Sound

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    Cameo is the brainchild of Callin Fortis, club owner and designer (Big Time Design), and, with his business partner, Ken...

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  • 944 Miami

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    With Cameo, Chicago kingpin Callin Fortis undid his crobar creation and remade it in the likeness of the Palladium of...

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  • Mondo Magazine

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    The start of 2007 saw a new venue, Cameo, join the competitive Miami club scene. A replacement for the popular...

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  • Blueprint Directory

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    “It’s going to happen,” says designer Cal Fortis, who is sitting in a small office in the Cameo Theatre, chain-smoking...

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  • Nightclub & Bar Magazine

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    When asked what his favorite aspect of his job is, Crobar brand Co-owner and Co-creator Ken Smith says nothing of...

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  • Loft Magazine

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    There is sociology to good nightclub design. How people move through space while they are dancing is critical. Because New...

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  • New Bar & Club Design

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    Callin Fortis and Lionel Ohayan, December 2003 crobar is one of a crop of new superclubs that have been unleashed...

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  • Cool Restaurants Chicago

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    Perched on the edge of Lake Michigan, America’s third largest city has long been famous for its modern architecture, raucous...

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