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10 Highlights From the 20th Edition of Design Miami
- Design Miami marked its 20th anniversary with “Blue Sky Thinking” – a theme that aimed to focus back on the avant-garde pieces that had defined the market in its early years. This year’s showcase included galleries and cultural actors that have held fast to collectible design's original impetus and continue to challenge the boundaries of typology, concept, and self-expression.
- Dubai-based designer Nader Gammas made his Design Miami debut with his flora-inspired Vessels collection – a series of ceramic luminaries that reflect the function of designed objects and natural forms.
- India’s first collectible design gallery, Æquo, presented Chamar Studio’s series of Flap Chairs, produced entirely out of rubber. The chairs reflect the potential of this material’s properties in achieving the intended function.
- Philadelphia-based designer Nick Missel shaped the REM Collection Double Knot table – presented by Wexler Gallery – using fiberglass, resin, and automotive paint to produce a solid, elevated furnishing shaped like packing foam.
- New York-based artist Christopher Russell presented geometrically composed vessels with a spontaneous yet methodical application of colourfully painted patchworks. The Yellow Cubist Vessel demonstrated Russell’s iterative and ever formally experimental approach to ceramics practice.
- Major Italian fashion house Fendi unveiled a capsule furniture collection by British designer Lewis Kemmenoe. The chairs, cabinets, coffee tables, and back-lit wall pieces use his deeply research-based approach with artisanal tradition resulting in subversive pieces like the metallic Silver Chair.
- Acting as a central anchor and display element for smaller ceramics was London-based designer Rio Kobayashi’s freestanding Tundra shelf. Created using endemic redwood, the piece was designed in reflection of the architecture in California-based JB Blunk’s self-built home.
- Friedman Benda exhibited Formafantasma’s Robo Lamp, produced in cherry wood and LEDs, signalling the relationship between design, the domestic sphere, and the idea of an archetype.
- Los Angeles-based luxury design practice Nuova Group showed its Curio as a reconstituted domestic interior from 1971, complete with archival upholstery, candles, and Andrea sconce designs.
- Jack Simonds, a Brooklyn-based designer, exhibited the A protea lamp combining natural dried protea flowers with burned bamboo, cast bronze, and hand-carved marble to create an almost-decayed light source that is otherworldly yet grounded.
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