The season’s sprightliest styles celebrate the vintage glamour of old Palm Beach.

The finest resort destinations do more than provide visitors with a change of scenery—they provide a refreshed state of mind. Case in point: The Colony Palm Beach, that legendary pink-hued hotel on the corner of South County Road and Hammon Avenue, which for the past 75 years has given guests—including Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, John Lennon and Judy Garland—a slice of South Florida paradise. “It is a social destination and an iconic landmark,” says Marie Penny, director of archives at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach. “The hotel is integral to the area.”

When The Colony first opened in 1947, it was lauded for its distinct architecture, live music and fashionable interiors. “It was designed by Simonson & Holley during the city’s post–World War II construction boom,” says Rose Guerrero, director of research at the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. “The hotel’s British Colonial–style architecture marks a shift from the Mediterranean Revival style that defined the region throughout the 1920s and ’30s.”