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For the second year in a row, Industry Gallery is participating in the Design Miami/ On/Site Program. This year they are showcasing work from designer Tom Price’s series entitled Meltdown. A London native, Price attended several renowned schools including the Royal College of Art. That background in fine art informs his approach to design, which [...]
A visit to Jousse Entreprise’s booth is a journey through design history. From the rarest of work by Jean Prouvé to the heart of Chandigarh, India as Pierre Jeanneret imagined it, Jousse is providing Design Miami/ visitors with an extraordinary presentation of design. Front and center in ’s booth is a very rare Jean Prouvè [...]
Designer of the Year David Adjaye is taking the (art, architecture, design) world by storm. Beatrice Galilee – reporting for Cultured magazine caught a rare moment with the star architect in his London design studio. In 2003 a young African architect was on the front cover of every major design magazine in the UK, mopping [...]
Ornamentum Gallery is showing some of the most thought-provoking contemporary jewelry and silver work at Design Miami/ this year. The gallery is featuring ten international designers in their exhibition: Luzia Vogt, Gerd Rothmann, Karl Fritsch, David Clarke, David Bielander, Iris Eichenberg, Jantje Fleischhut, John Iversen, Dan Jocz and Ted Noten (the 2012 Dutch artist of [...]
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. works with private collectors, businesses and cultural institutions to build customized, curated libraries of the best and most collectible titles on art, architecture and design. They’ve built a custom library at Design Miami/ this year and it contains over 300 titles. ARTBOOK’s curators surveyed participating galleries to find out what they were [...]
One of Design Miami’s Satellite Exhibitions is a home – a very fashionable one at that. ELLE DECOR collaborated with some of the best and brightest in interior design to transform 10,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space at one of Miami’s most prestigious addresses – Paramount Bay (2020 North Bayshore Drive). ELLE DECOR [...]
10:00-11:30am DESIGN MIAMI/ COLLECTORS BREAKFAST Meridian Avenue & 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot (Invitation Only – Design Miami/ Collectors Card & Art Basel Miami Beach VIP Cards) 12:00-8:00pm DESIGN MIAMI/ DAILY SHOW HOURS Meridian Avenue & 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot 3:00-4:00pm SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL PALACE IN CONVERSATION WITH ERWIN REDL Meridian [...]
Last night, Design Miami/ opened and VIP guests came to take in all that this year’s fair had to offer. Here are some visions from the Vernissage.
The house was packed tonight as Stefano Tonchi, Editor In Chief of W Magazine, hosted the first Design Miami/ Design Talk with Lord Norman and Lady Elena Foster. The talk entitled Modern Utopia explored the influence Buckminster Fuller had on Lord Foster’s incredible architectural career. Lord Foster, a Pritzker Prize winner, has designed iconic and [...]
Swing by Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s booth to see the latest chandelier in Frederik Molenschot’s CityLight series. Molenschot was inspired by the buzzing city of Shanghai where he lived in 2003. With the chandelier, Molenschot recreates the feeling of wandering the streets or driving along a city highway at night. The piece captures the hallucinogenic feeling [...]
You don’t want to miss Demisch Danant’s solo exhibition of Pierre Paulin’s designs at Design Miami/. The gallery is showing a selection of important works and rare chairs by Pierre Paulin in an environment inspired by his architecture. The booth, which was designed by Claudia Dias, has a tented structure in which Paulin’s work takes [...]
Seomi Gallery is back this year with a stunning presentation that features seven Korean design talents – Hunchung Lee, Jin Jang, Jongsun Bahk, Myungsun Kang, Samwoong Lee, Sanghoon Kim and Sehwa Bae. Commenting on his roster for Miami, Gallery Owner PJ Park, says: “All the designers that we work with are very unique in their [...]
Galerie kreo is known for providing designers with a platform to both experiment and showcase their creativity. They work with some of the most important designers of our time to create exclusive limited-edition pieces. They have worked with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, , Naoto Fukasawa, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, Martin Van [...]
If you didn’t get out there on Black Friday, no worries. You can get some of your holiday shopping done at Design Miami/. Johnson Trading Gallery, a long-time exhibitor at the fair, is selling limited edition gift boxes this year. Johnson Trading Gallery asked four designers to create their own interpretations of a gift box. [...]
This year marks the return of Dansk Møbelkunst to the U.S. edition of Design Miami/. The gallery is making its mark with an incredible exhibition of material that includes important work by famous Danish designer Poul Kjærholm. The Shell Chair (photographed above) was designed in 1953 and made in a very limited edition. Dansk Møbelkunst’s [...]
Stefano Tonchi returns to moderate this year’s Design Talks between some of today’s most distinguished fashion and design luminaries. Cultured magazine’s Sarah Harrelson got a preview. You interviewed David Adjaye in last year’s Design Talks. What are your thoughts on his receiving the prestigious Designer of the Year award? As usual, W serves as a [...]
12:00-8:00pm DESIGN MIAMI/ DAILY SHOW HOURS Meridian Avenue & 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot, Miami Beach 6:00-7:00pm DESIGN MIAMI/ DESIGN TALK “MODERN UTOPIA” HOSTED BY STEFANO TONCHI, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, W MAGAZINE FEATURING LORD NORMAN FOSTER Meridian Avenue & 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot
Design Miami/ held its collectors preview today. At the fair, we spotted collectors, designers and influentials from the world of design, art, fashion and culture getting a first look at the show. Fabien Baron, Kenny Schacter, David Adjaye, Stefano Tonchi, Ludovic Watine, Stacy Van Praagh, Jackie Soffer, Jean Pierre Lehmann, Cathy Leff, Edward Tyler Nahem, [...]
Last night at the W South Beach, Design Miami/ held its welcome cocktail. The event was hosted by Silvia Fendi, Craig Robins and W Hotels. It was a time to catch up with friends and to toast the week ahead. Here are some images from the event.
Marianne Goebl Director of Design Miami/ held a press conference today to welcome the media to the seventh edition of the Miami fair. “Design is the creative discipline that most strongly shapes and impacts the world that surrounds us. Design is also a discipline that embraces many facets and shapes from the unique, hand-made piece [...]
You don’t need an advanced degree in mathematics to realize that the work Moss Gallery is presenting at Design Miami/ is beautiful, captivating and intelligent. Moss is back at Design Miami/ this year with a solo exhibition of the work by Dr. Haresh Lalvani, architect, sculptor, inventor, morphologist and Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute. [...]
For the second time, Galerie VIVID is presenting a solo exhibition of Studio Job’s work at Design Miami/. In 2010, Studio Job made Piece for Peace in association with the world famous Belgian crystal producer Val Saint Lambert. This unique showpiece was designed for the Cabinet of Van Rompuy, President of the European Council in [...]
Established in 1989 in Paris, Galerie Patrick Seguin showcases the talent of French designers from the 50s such as Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Jean Royère. Today, these designers are recognized as major contributors to the history of design in the twentieth century. Galerie Patrick Seguin has rare examples of work [...]
Buckminster Fuller was a man ahead of his time. The architect, designer, and evolutionary strategist practiced an approach to creativity and design that was comprehensive, anticipatory and aligned with nature’s fundamental principles. Two of his most famous inventions are on display in the Miami Design District. It is an unprecedented opportunity to see a piece [...]
