Open Now: Design Miami 2025
December 3, 2025, Miami Beach - Design Miami is now open to the public for the 21st edition of its Miami Beach fair, its largest to date, marking the culmination of the brand’s 20th anniversary year through 2025.
Returning to its flagship Miami Beach location at Pride Park from December 3-7, following Preview Day on December 2, this year’s fair presents over 80 exhibitors to explore the theme of Make. Believe., offering a celebration of Design Miami’s two decades of championing the collectible design visionaries of the past, present, and future.
CURATORIAL HIGHLIGHTS.
The Make. Believe. theme explores the meeting point between expert craft and bold imagination, viewing design as a space where fantasy is rooted in real-world making. Craft, in all its forms, turns imagination into reality.
This year’s exhibitors embrace the theme with a distinctly optimistic tone, defined by a noticeable trend towards bold color and joyfully playful approach. Katie Stout brings this theme to life through an interactive carousel, spinning in a kaleidoscopic booth surrounded with floor to ceiling reflective surfaces. The piece is presented as part of her commission for the 10th anniversary of Miami Design District’s Annual Design Commission, presented in collaboration with Design Miami Curatorial Lab. Titled Gargantua’s Thumb, her commission is presented both on site at the fair and through a collection of playful, interactive animal-like sculptures in the district. The Future Perfect (New York) offers a gallery presentation that celebrates experimentation and cross-disciplinary, material play, including debut sculptural light fixtures from Karl Zahn, the first-ever dining table by D’Haene Studio, and an imaginative jewelry collaboration between LizWorks and Charles Schulz. Meanwhile, PALAZZO by Mathieu Lehanneur, one of 13 Special Projects showing at the fair, offers a striking scenography of playfully elegant collectible design, including Lehanneur’s Familyscape sofa, complete with a handbag-shaped cushion, illuminated by his floral-form Guernica lighting piece.
A material emphasis on mirrors, glass, and metallics is also reflected around the fair. Among the key highlights is a Special Project presented by Ornamentum (Hudson): a monumental, circular wall hanging by Jaydan Moore titled Oculus (2025), composed of found silver-plated platters in five overlapping elements, the shimmering surface offers an intricate beauty, speaking to themes of circularity and eternity. At Wexler Gallery (New York/Philadelphia), Cimone Kind Berman creates mixed media mirrors that explore themes of transformation, transparency, and reflection, fusing layers of glass, metal, and pigment into portals that feel both ancient and futuristic, while Vezzini & Chen offer a masterclass in glass at Adrian Sassoon (London), presenting new blown and cut glass lighting pieces created this year.
Further spotlighting ambitious craftsmanship, Design Miami has also announced its Best of Show Awards winners, as selected by Grela Orihuela (Senior Vice President of Fairs, Design Miami), Al Eiber (Collector), Lee Mindel (Architect), and Simon Andrews (Advisor).
The Best Thematic Expression Award was given to Friends Artspace (Arlington), who present a collection of works that transform tradition, reclaiming inherited forms and techniques while reimagining their original meanings. By elevating the accessible, the imperfect, and the overlooked, these designers remove their materials from the industrial sphere, transforming them into objects of lasting presence—intended to carry the intimacy of craft alongside the power of reimagined tradition. Highlights include works by Kawabi, whose wood and paper lighting draws on Japanese joinery to create sacred objects for an imagined ancestral home, and Aspen Golann, who reinterprets 18th and 19th century broom-making, transforming domestic tools into sculptural pieces.
The Best Gallery Presentation was awarded to Charles Burnand Gallery (London), who present an exhibition titled Monuments of Ether, uniting artists whose practices push beyond function, toward the speculative and the sublime. Highlights of the booth include seating by Jungin Lee crafted from Hanji paper and flour paste, and otherworldly cabinetry by Jean-Gabriel Neukomm and Jan Waterston.
Looking to the future, Design Miami also introduced a new award for this milestone edition of the Miami Beach fair, the Best New Voice award, won by debut exhibitor Galerie Signé (Paris) for a curation which reflects the gallery’s commitment to nurturing emerging designers and fostering a critical conversation within design history, platforming work by Martin Szekely, Julie Richoz, and Marie & Alexandre.
Superhouse (New York) won the Best Curio Presentation for its presentation titled American Art Furniture: 1980–1990, bringing together a selection of works debuting publicly for the first time. Defined by bold color and brave forms, the booth explores the radically optimistic experimentation that defined American art furniture in the 1980s, with works by 12 pioneering designers including Dan Friedman, Michele Oka Doner, and Pippa Garner.
The Best Historic Work was awarded to Moderne Gallery (Philadelphia) for an extremely rare, exceptional pair of Bookmatched Conoid Benches by George Nakashima. Designed as a pair in 1972, the benches were brought to life from the same American black walnut tree, forming a truly matching pair. Meanwhile, Best Contemporary Work was awarded to Jorge Lizarazo at Cristina Grajales Gallery (New York), for his Sunrise Japan wall hanging.
The award winners each received an award designed by Maison Daum. The trophy was designed by French artist and designer Victoria Wilmotte, known for her sculptural and architectural approach to form. Crafted from pâte de cristal using Daum’s ancestral lost-wax technique, the piece is defined by geometric folds, bold lines, and vivid colors.
Design Miami 2.0
Marking this milestone year, the fair also unveils Design Miami 2.0, a Special Project curated by Glenn Adamson featuring works by eight of today’s most compelling voices in contemporary design. The title offers a visual nod to Design Miami’s 20th anniversary, while playfully signaling new beginnings as the fair looks ahead to its next decade. Highlights include pieces by Jack Craig, presented by David Klein Gallery; KAMEH; Kooij; Mehdi Dakhli; Stephen Burks Man Made in collaboration with ALPI, in association with Friedman Benda; Steven Young Lee, presented by Duane Reed Gallery; Tina Frey Designs; and Victoria Yakusha.
ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS.
PARTNERS & COLLABORATIONS. PROJECTS.
This year sees Design Miami’s inaugural Title Partnership with Bank of America Private Bank. Emerging during a moment of celebration around two decades of pioneering design, creativity, and cultural exchange, this partnership reflects Bank of America’s ongoing commitment to supporting the vibrant community of designers, collectors, and thought leaders who are shaping the future of design; and underscores a significant recognition of the importance to spark dialogue, support emerging talent, and champion design as a vital part of the cultural economy.
Design Miami’s exhibiting partners and collaborators also offer a diverse set of presentations that each imagine the Make. Believe. through a unique lens. In celebration of its 100th anniversary, FENDI presents Fonderia Fendi, an unprecedented manifestation of feminine strength and Italian craft created in collaboration with Argentinian designer and artist Conie Vallese. Calling upon five Italian ateliers to fabricate one-of-a-kind FENDI pieces in bronze, ceramic, glass, carpet, and leather, Vallese recreates an intimate salotto (living room). Kohler returns to Design Miami to present Underlight, an installation in partnership with Crosby Studios to debut its latest innovation, Pearlized, an iridescent finish that transforms ceramic surfaces into luminous works of functional art, developed in partnership with artist David Franklin. The immersive, dreamlike installation places visitors to the fair just beneath the water’s surface. Inside, an iridescent school of fish, crafted in the Kohler MakerSpace artist residency program, circle above as four new Kohler Pearlized sinks radiate ethereal light and color. Meanwhile, newcomer Gaggenau presents The Expressive Dialogue, a conceptual installation offering a physical interpretation of the fair’s theme by exploring the dialogue between the tangible and the imagined.
On the occasion of Design Miami 2025, Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council (Sharjah, UAE) presents a collaboration with Levantine designer Nada Debs. The Council aims to protect and preserve both tangible and intangible heritage crafts by empowering women artisans economically and socially through capacity-building initiatives. This year, Irthi and Nada Debs launch a collection of multifunctional boxes and vessels that represent contemporary interpretations of objects carried by Bedouin tribes. The works initiate a dialogue between two diverse crafts: the softness of talli handweaving and the solid strength of wooden marquetry. Through their application, a unique material exchange takes place as the talli becomes solid, while lending its supple characteristics to the marquetry. Explore the collection here.
Further information on the Design Miami 2025 Partner Program can be found here.
DESIGN TALKS.
This year’s Design Talks Theater is reimagined by Arquitectonica into an immersive concept engaging with themes around the past, present, and future of design.
The talks program presents a dynamic lineup of boundary-pushing designers, curators, and industry leaders. Highlights include a deep exploration of The Alchemy of Making, hosted by Kohler in conversation with Harry Nuriev and David Franklin; a discussion on Baroque design with designers Kate Malone, Nicole Cherubini, and Francesca DiMattio; and an exchange between Es Devlin and Alberto Cavalli on the intertwined themes of Language, life, and light. Range Rover’s Brand Design Chief, Will Verity, will also examine The Power of Absence: Depth, Drama, and Emotion in Modernist Design, joined by Simon Stewart (Charles Burnand) and Juliet Burrows (Hostler Burrows).
On Friday, 4 December, artists and designers from Design Miami 2.0 will gather to reflect on the creation of this year’s Special Project in a conversation led by Curatorial Director Glenn Adamson.
Upcoming: Alserkal and Design Miami Partner to Introduce Collectible Design Platform in Dubai
Coinciding with Design Miami 2025 preview day on 2 December, Alserkal, a cultural enterprise rooted in Dubai and active globally, and Design Miami, the leading international forum for collectible design, have announced a multi-year partnership that will introduce Design Miami to the Middle East. The collaboration will establish a jointly curated, regional platform for collectible design, featuring a flagship fair in Dubai and ongoing design-led activations, beginning in early 2027.
Grounded in Alserkal and Design Miami’s shared values of creative community-building, the partnership brings together two organizations that have each been instrumental in shaping design and cultural expression locally and globally over the past two decades, driven by a commitment to new perspectives and unconventional thinking. Through this new partnership, Alserkal will build on Design Miami’s twenty-year experience of convening leading galleries, collectors and practitioners as the global forum for collectible design. Shaped by perspectives from the UAE and the wider Middle East, and a commitment to thoughtful, context-driven curation, the initiative will bring together a like-minded community of designers, collectors, and leading creative voices. Together, Alserkal and Design Miami will create a platform for a global exchange of ideas, establishing Dubai as an international destination for collectible design.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Design Miami Galleries.
Adrian Sassoon
Arte y Ritual
Ateliers Courbet
Boccara Gallery
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Charles Burnand Gallery
Cristina Grajales
David Gill Gallery
Delvis (Un)limited Gallery
Friedman Benda
Galerie Gastou
Galerie SCENE OUVERTE
Galerie Signé
Giulia De Jonckheere Design
Hostler Burrows
Ippodo Gallery
J. Lohmann Gallery
LEFEBVRE ET FILS
Magen H Gallery
Mass Modern Design
Mercado Moderno
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Moderne Gallery
Ornamentum
R & Company
The Future Perfect
Theoreme Editions
Thomsen Gallery
Todd Merrill Studio
Wexler Gallery
Design Miami Curios.
1882 Ltd
Arquitectonica
Atelier Crestani
ATRA
Bea Interiors Design
Bossa Furniture
Elisabetta Cipriani Wearable Art
Friends Artspace
GARRIDO GALLERY
Hicham Ghandour
HOMMEMADE
Marcela Cure
Merida Studio
MOUVEMENTS MODERNES
Nick Thomm
PET Lamp
Roham Shamekh
SI VIS PACEM
Sten Studio
Superhouse
the Spaceless Gallery
Tokio.
Tuleste Factory
Design Miami Special Projects.
Achille Salvagni Atelier: Memories of the Future
Design Miami 2.0, curated by Glenn Adamson
Friedman Benda presents Swatching Space Time (2023) by Misha Kahn
Hostler Burrows presents Eun-Ha Paek: New works from the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency Program
Rising, Rooted, and Woven by Joyce Billet presented by Villa Albertine with plants from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
KOREA NOW & Here: Korea Craft and Design Foundation with Gallery LVS
Malaparte and Gagosian present Casa Malaparte: Furniture
I AM by Mathieu Lehanneur
PALAZZO by Mathieu Lehanneur
Nouvel presents Glass Reflections, supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Ornamentum presents Oculus by Jayden Moore
RAY & Gufram present: Fiore di Cactus, edited by Francesco Vezzoli
Todd Merrill Studio presents Erik Speer: Unraveled Reefs
Design Miami 2.0
Jack Craig, presented by David Klein Gallery
KAMEH
Kooij
Mehdi Dakhli
Stephen Burks Man Made in collaboration with ALPI, in association with Friedman Benda
Steven Young Lee, presented by Duane Reed Gallery
Tina Frey Designs
Victoria Yakusha
Design Miami Partners.
1 Hotel South Beach
AFALULA
Alkemis Paint
Arquitectonica
Bank of America
CADAR
Clive Christian
Daum
Fendi
FIU
Gaggenau
Haworth
Henge
Homo Faber
Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council
Kohler
Label Brand
Lasvit
Maison Perrier
Miami Design District
Michael’s Genuine
Perrier-Jouët
Piaget
Range Rover
SCAD
Technogym
TM Lighting
UNA Vodka
Venini
Address.
Design Miami.
19th Street & Convention Ctr Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
Public Show Days.
Wednesday, December 3. 1pm-7pm
Thursday, December 4. 11am-7pm
Friday, December 5. 11am-7pm
Saturday, December 6. 11am-7pm
Sunday, December 7. 11am-6pm
Visiting the Fair.
Passes to the fair are available for purchase here or at designmiami.com.
Accredited members of the media can register for a press pass here.
About Design Miami.
Design Miami provides a global platform for extraordinary collectible design through activations featuring a global network of galleries, designers, brands, experts, collectors, and enthusiasts. Each Design Miami fair features museum-quality 20th and 21st century furniture, lighting, and objets d’art from the world’s top, expertly vetted galleries, in addition to showcasing immersive design collaborations with celebrated brands. Founded in 2005, the brand’s flagship Miami Beach fair takes place each December. More recently, Design Miami has expanded its global design forum to incorporate localized event formats, including its Paris fair, hosted in a locally-specific architectural setting each October; and Design Miami.In Situ, designed to offer regionalized experiences that celebrate and cultivate local design communities.
About Bank of America Private Bank.
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