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Firm Profile

With a desire to help ensure that their clients maximize their return on investment and become models of financial success, Telesco Associates takes a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating the work of architects, artists, artisans, chefs, designers in many disciplines and technology experts to create unique, one of a kind memorable destination venues. Located in Miami Beach, FL, this nationally acclaimed architecture and interior design firm specializes in nightclub and restaurant design throughout the US and the Caribbean. Telesco Associates is anything but a typical architecture or design firm. Without the hierarchy of titles, dress codes or the typical “architectural attitude” they revel in the successes of their clients by helping to create profitable destination venues for them. A profitable venue for the owner is their measurement of success.

One can not visit the nightclub or restaurant scene in South Beach without seeing Telesco Associates clubs and eateries. From the early 90’s with successes at such memorable clubs as The Living Room, Zen, Bash & Chaos to the late 90’s megaclubs including Shadow Lounge, Bacchanalia, Liquid, Opium Gardens and the legendary Crobar Miami, Telesco clubs have proven profitable and enduring. Post 2000 projects at the Beach include the award winning Rain, Ink Lounge, and Waxy O’Connors Irish Pub & Restaurant among others. Telesco Associates was the Architect of record for the new Cameo, which replaced crobar Miami in February of 2007.

Telesco Associates has been instrumental in the success of the most successful clubs in South Beach and the country. Around the country Telesco projects are seen in New York at Crobar NY, Chicago at Crobar Chicago, Detroit at Elysium Lounge and South Padre Island Texas at Pelican West.

Telesco’s Miami Beach restaurants include Quarterdeck South Beach and the new Las Vacas Gordas Argentine Steak House, currently under renovation. Across Biscayne Bay in Miami, Telesco’s design projects include nightclubs Fuel, Studio A and the legendary Nocturnal, all in the 24 hour district. Miami Restaurants include Grass in the Design District as well as it’s soon to open club “The King is Dead”. Andu Bistro opened in February 2008 in the Brickell area high rise Neo Vertica and has been published in several magazines including the cover article in the April 2008 issue of Hospitality Design. Telesco Associates is currently designing their second pub for the Waxy O’Connors group in that same building. The first Waxy O’Connors which was both designed and built by Telesco opened in March 2008 on Miami Beach and with all of the millwork and bars imported form Ireland and exhibits the highest level of “fit and finish” seen in an Irish Pub in South Florida. Around Florida Telesco’s designs are seen at Level nightclub in Fort Meyers, Murphy’s Law in the Hollywood Hardrock Casino and Resort, The Wave in Clearwater Beach, and the Page Six City Club soon to open in Orlando as well as Cheeseburger Restaurant in Key West.

Telesco designed Tootsies Cabaret, a 42,000 square foot adult club which opened in January 2006 and was sold for an unbelievable 35 million dollars in December 2007 after only 23 months in business. In the Islands Telesco has designed clubs Saturn in San Juan, XTC in the Cayman Islands and Heather's in the Bahamas. Telesco Associates (Florida License # AA-0002884) is headed by registered New York Architect and Builder Thomas J. Telesco AIA. Mr. Telesco is a former nightclub owner and understands the business from the inside out.


Mission Statement

“Great hospitality designs create the correct visual surroundings from the parking lot through the front door, the interior design and the actual menu itself, to let the patrons know and feel that perception that was intended by the designer. Everything visual associated with your venue sends a powerful message. Watch and perfect the visual messages you send. To offer “quality” with out creating that perception of quality is to have failed your client and yourself.” - T.J.Telesco AIA

Profitability for our clients is our measurement of success!

We know that our nightclub and restaurant clients are not only in the “alcohol” or “food” business. They are both in the Entertainment business and as such need to offer a dining or clubbing experience to their patrons not just a drink or a meal. Having a particular “house style” for a design firm can be a trap and Telesco Associates Designs vary considerably based on the project, the marketplace and the intended demographic to insure the maximum probability of financial success for their clients.