Haute Living Magazine

Volume one: No 5

On The Clock with Michael Capponi

After six years absent from the South Beach nightlife scene he helped create, Michael Capponi returned to Miami with a half-empty backpack, a surfboard and the determination to get back on top. Today, the real estate entrepreneur and joint force behind the Washington Avenue development The Angler's Boutique Resort, finds himself on top once again. We met the nightlife impresario in his recently renovated Sunset Island home to experience 24 hours in the life of a self-proclaimed workaholic.

A Typical 24 Hours With Michael Capponi

Midnight , Thursday

Capponi hosts the center table at the night's most-awaited dinner party in South Beach 's Victor Hotel . Surrounded by VIPs, business magnates, models, and 600 other invited diners and revelers, Capponi momentarily disconnects from the festive milieu to note that it's already Friday- the last day of the week for most, but the first day of the week for him.

3:00A.M. , Friday

After another wildly successful night at the Victor, Capponi bids adieu to food and beverage director Scott Engelman before rounding the corner for Mansion to oversee the Victor post-party.

8:00A.M.

Capponi drives toward his recently listed Sunset Island home, where he informs the 25 employees working on the 6,000-square-foot, home-rehab project of the 90-day timeline necessary to meet the pending, self-imposed deadline for completion by his girlfriend Erin 's birthday.

9:00A.M.

Capponi proceeds to meet The Angler's Boutique Resort developer Greg Covin at his Biscayne Boulevard office to finalize the project's theme. Final decision: The island-colonial theme first introduced by partner Wallace Tutt.

11:00A.M.

Before visiting Creative Web Studios for his weekly website update, Capponi makes a pit stop at Shell Lumber to choose crown moldings for the rehab project (90 days and counting). He proceeds to drive back to the office for a meeting with his partner from Lipnik- a Croatian bottled-water company founded by Capponi, set to launch in the United States next summer.

2:00P.M.

No time for a sit-down lunch. Capponi darts in for Chicken Kitchen take out on the way back to the rehab-project site. He spends the next three hours doing walkthroughs and meeting craftsman, while balancing e-mails and VIP table requests for tonight's Prive party on his BlackBerry.

6:00P.M.

Capponi heads toward the Breakers Hotel to attend Barefoot on the Beach, the prevailing Palm Beach social event of the season for the Boys and Girls Club of America. He sits on this year's BGCA committee and hopes that the funds of this night's white party will exceed last year's proceeds.

11:00P.M.

The Palm Beach event runs effortlessly, but Capponi must cut his visit short to address another commitment two counties away- this Friday night's Prive party slated to draw guests from around the world. Though the clock keeps ticking, this entrepreneur shows no signs of slowing down.