The color of the walls, floors and ceilings is a dead giveaway. If there was any doubt that the Italian designers known for sculpting the sleek forms of Ferraris, Maseratis and other sports cars — many of them vibrantly red — were responsible for the interiors of a new 42-story condominium tower developed by the Related Group, one glance at the scarlet elevator lobby would lay those doubts to rest.

As if to emphasize the point, a number of the building's public spaces also display large black-and-white photographs of the design firm's legendary cars. 1100 Millecento by Pininfarina, at 1100 South Miami Avenue in the Brickell neighborhood here, is one of two high-rises in the United States with interiors by Pininfarina, a design firm based in Turin, Italy.

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