15 Jun From Le Mans to Miami: The Origin Story of CollectionSuites
The First Lino
Léon “Lino” Marcel Louis Fayen — known to his family and to the paddock simply as Lino — was a Franco-Venezuelan racing driver who competed at Le Mans in 1954 and 1959. He raced across Europe, South Africa, and Asia during the golden era of motorsport. A time when the line between driver, mechanic, and gentleman racer was thinner than it would ever be again.
That world shaped his family for generations to come.
The Inheritance
The passion passed down.
Juan Manuel Fayen, Lino’s son, grew up inside that environment. The cars. The races. The discipline of caring for something that mattered. By the time he became custodian of the family’s collection, the question had shifted from how do you collect? to how do you protect what you’ve inherited?
He found that traditional storage wasn’t built for the answer.
The places calling themselves luxury storage treated climate control as a feature on a brochure, not as the architecture of preservation. They treated security as cameras pointed at things, not as a true sanctuary for what they were protecting. They reduced the preservation work to square footage on a lease.
A collection that represents real history deserves more than a square-footage answer.
The Principle
CollectionSuites was built on permanence.
Permanence as an architectural promise. Climate and humidity engineered to anticipate environmental shifts in South Florida. Lighting calibrated to honor what each car deserves. Architecture designed to dignify the act of collecting itself. With a brand-new Club House, at the social center of it all.
When collectors walk through a CollectionSuites suite for the first time, there is usually a moment of recognition. They realize that the place isn’t about storing cars. It’s about respect for what they have spent a lifetime acquiring.
A Ferrari connection across generations
During the 2026 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, Marc Gené — Ferrari’s longtime test driver and ambassador — visited CollectionSuites.
The visit wasn’t accidental. Juan Manuel’s relationship with Ferrari runs across decades, and the family’s connection to the marque spans three generations of racing, owning, and collecting. When the people closest to the cars recognize a place built for them, the principle stops being a thesis.
The Third Generation
Juan Manuel has two sons. Lino — who carries his grandfather’s name. And Marcel — who carries his grandfather’s middle name. Together, the brothers carry forward the full inheritance of Léon “Lino” Marcel Louis Fayen.
They carry something else as well. The understanding that what one generation preserves becomes the next generation’s inheritance. That a serious collection of cars is ultimately a story kept alive across decades and families.
That is what CollectionSuites was built to honor.
Where the story is being written now
Two locations in Miami. A forthcoming development in Palm Beach delivering in 2027.
The collectors who join CollectionSuites understand what the Fayen family understood three generations ago: that the cars are heritage. That heritage requires a real home built on principles, not on amenities.
Become part of the next chapter
If the story above sounds like the kind of place where your collection belongs, the conversation starts here.
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