MIAMI—Sunday night found local Miami art folks and some early birds from elsewhere at Le Meridien hotel in Sunny Isles Beach, for a party celebrating the hotel's new art and culture program curated by Jerome Sans, one of the original curators at Paris's innovative Palais de Tokyo. Now director of programs for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, England, Sans serves as "cultural attache" for all of the Le Meridien hotels.

Sans, who compared his program to the Gesamtkunstwerk spirit of Paris’s cafe-concerts in the late 19th-century, had not only installed in the hotel snazzy works by visual artists like Sam Samore, but had also had musician and composer Henri Scars Struck create a soundtrack for the elevators (it was a chorus of bird chirps when I got in); perfumiers Edouard Roschi and Fabrice Penot concoct a signature musky scent; and filmmaker Kiki Allgeier capture all the other artists on celluloid. The artists were in festive spirits at the party. Samore, who joked that he'd perhaps had a glass too many of champagne, told me his photograph was applied to the glass on the entrance wall "by magic." In addition to creating a book of fairy tales for each guest's bedtime experience—one conversation at the party centered around how to say nicely that Samore's charming stories would put you to sleep—Samore had created a unique set of room keys based on the five senses. One has an ear, one an eye, and so forth—hence the hotel's "unlock art" concept: the keys gets guests free admission to the Miami contemporary art center the Moore Space. Moore curator Sylvia Karman Cubina was to be found making merry at the party and nearly upstaged Sans when local collector Paul Berg approached. "I would lend anything to the Moore," Berg said glowingly. "Because of Sylvia."

Scars Struck DJ'ed the event and at a certain point faced the complaint that he wasn't playing enough "Miami music." When he asked the complaining party what she meant by that, she said she meant dance music, the kind she cleans her house to. He obliged by spinning some classic disco, and said, “There you go. Now you can clean the whole hotel!”

Sarah Douglas is staff writer for Art+Auction.