Developers in the Miami area used Modernist styles to attract tourists and home buyers in the mid-20th century. “The hotels were swank, escapist, over-the-top fantasies, and other building types had clean Bauhaus-inspired lines or tropical features like courtyards and louvered mahogany doors,” said Ruth Grim, acting chief curator at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, where “Promises of Paradise: Staging Midcentury Miami” opens onWednesday. It includes photos, furniture and accessories like a 1947 lamp, left, by George Farkas.

This brochure for the 1956 Americana hotel in Bal Harbour is also included. Ms. Grim said she hoped the show would draw attention to the region’s endangered Modernist buildings: on Nov. 18, the Americana was felled to make way for condos. Through April 13; (305) 673-7530 or bassmuseum.org. EVE M. KAHN www.nytimes.com