See Photos From Artnet and Maestro Dobel Tequila’s Celebratory Miami Dinner for Artist Julian Mayor

Last evening in Miami, atop the Herzog
& de Meuron-designed 1111 Lincoln Road—a striking brutalist
structure in the heart of South Beach—an intimate crowd of
art-world figures gathered to celebrate Artnet and Maestro Dobel
Tequila’s yearlong art collaboration. 

The dinner party was held to
commemorate the results of the partnership: a new collection of
works by UK-based sculptor Julian Mayor, who
worked alongside Artnet and Maestro Dobel’s creative teams to
conceive and build a nearly eight-foot-long freestanding bar,
handbuilt by Mayor over the course of several
months. Mayor, who
constructed the bar from mirrored steel, also created cocktail
vessels from the same material, as well as hand-blown
tequila-tasting glasses made in conjunction with Vissio, a Mexican
glass studio that Mayor discovered during a recent trip to Mexico
City. That same trip inspired the making of the collection of
vessels, which is comprised of 70 editions available for purchase
individually and exclusively on Artnet. 

Mayor’s work, informed by
traditional craftsmanship and innovative thinking, aligned
perfectly with Maestro Dobel’s company ethos. The geometry of the
agave plant—from which tequila is sourced—also served as Mayor’s
primary inspiration for the bar.

When guests arrived, they were
treated to a choice of cocktails crafted by Maestro Dobel’s
mixologists: the Flor del Desierto (or “Desert Rose”), a delicious,
citrus-based drink made with Maestro Dobel Diamante tequila,
grapefruit bitters, and hibiscus tea syrup; and Dobel’s signature
Black Diamond Margarita, which pairs the Diamante tequila with
agave syrup, fresh lime, and black salt.

Both cocktails highlighted the
taste and finish of Maestro Dobel Diamante, the world’s first-ever
cristalino tequila. Made collectively by 11th-generation tequila
master Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta, the spirit company’s
signature blend is distilled from 100-percent blue agave, harvested
on an estate in Jalisco, Mexico.

Shortly before dinner, which was
catered by chef Michael Schwartz, Artnet’s editor-in-chief, Andrew
Goldstein, addressed the crowd and congratulated Mayor on his
achievement, raising a tequila toast in Mayor’s handmade glass.
Afterwards, guests dined on a beet tartare appetizer, prepared with
creme fraiche, tequila-pickled beet, horseradish, dill, and rye
crisps, which was followed by a main course of slow-roasted short
ribs with whipped butternut squash and pumpkin-seed mole verde. For
dessert, there was dulce-de-leche flan with soft cream and corn-nut
cajeta brittle. 

As the evening came to a close, guests enjoyed the last of their
tequila cocktails before making their way out for the
night—but not without
first receiving a tote bag with Mayor’s
limited-edition steel cocktail vessel and a hand-molded glass.

Below, see photos from Artnet
and Maestro Dobel’s beautiful Miami celebration.

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