Alan Faena

Alan Roger Faena (born 28 November 1963, in Buenos Aires) who has developed properties in his native Buenos Aires, as well as Miami Beach, Florida.

Faena is the founder and President of Faena Group. He is a member of the Tate International Committee and the New Museum Leaders Council. He previously founded Via Vai in 1985, an Argentine fashion label, and worked as a fashion designer.

Career Early career In 1985, Faena followed in his parents footsteps into the textile industry and founded the fashion label Via Vai at age 19.

In November 2011, German artist Franz Ackermann exhibited the results of his voyages around Buenos Aires with the largest mural of his career in the center. The Cuban duo Los Carpinteros debuted their first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires at the arts center in May 2012. project to develop a six block waterfront property. Construction on the Miami Beach Faena District began in 2013.

The project includes the restoration of the 1948 Saxony hotel, and an arts center, Faena Forum, by architect Rem Koolhaas and OMA and residences by Foster + Partners.

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin are also involved in the project as designers for the interior of the Faena Hotel Miami Beach.

The district will be landscaped by Miami-based firm Raymond Jungles. The Faena House, an 18-story residential unit, is the project's first building scheduled for completion. and divorced two years later. Faena crashed Grace Goldsmith’s mother’s birthday party at Saxony Bar in May 2021, where he met Grace. They married on March 4, 2023.

Paradise Papers On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Faena was director and CEO of half a dozen offshore companies in Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. Faena also appears with bank accounts in Luxembourg and the Isle of Man, linked to different hotels and real estate projects in Puerto Madero.