Design Miami

Swarovski’s Designers of the Future explore artificial dreaming, crystal conversation and more

Swarovski presents the next instalment of its Designers of the Future initiative, an award supporting emerging talent who exemplify innovation in design. Unveiled at Design Miami/ Basel, this year’s recipients are Frank Kolkman, Study O Portable and Yosuke Ushigome who...

Designers of the Future award winners announced in Milan

Annually, the Swarovski Designers of the Future award champions a select group of promising designers and studios who exemplify new directions in design culture. It handpicks vanguard talents whose practice moves beyond pure furniture or product design, and into the...

Italian modernist Osvaldo Borsani’s innovative home opens up in Milan for Salone del Mobile

Osvaldo Borsani was born at the crossroads of craft and modern manufacturing. The son of a cabinetmaker, he trained as an architect in Milan in the 1930s, when the city was a centre of technological advancement and flourishing artistry, with...

Converso’s new LA showroom is a treasure trove of rare modern design

While decorating his famed Glass House in the 1950s, architect Philip Johnson removed a candelabra from the sitting area to make way for a less intrusive piece. Only, it didn’t yet exist. In collaboration with Richard Kelly, he designed a...

COS and Studio Swine branch out in Miami with scented bubble installation

At this year’s Design Miami, COS teamed up once more with Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine to showcase an updated version of the London studio’s specially commissioned bubble tree installation. Having made its debut earlier this year...

CasaCor brings a slice of Latin American living to Miami penthouses

When people think of Miami locations, they think of the water and the views. For its first Design Miami foray, the team at design show CasaCor went for the latter. ‘We couldn’t find anything we liked on the water, and...

Outside the box: Louisa Guinness shares her passion for artist jewellery in a new book

The extraordinary world of the Louisa Guinness Gallery has been packed into a new book, Art as Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor. The gallerist, who specialises in artist jewellery, opened her Mayfair gallery in 2003. Since then, it has revealed...

Prada moves to a modernist Brazilian beat at its new Miami boutique

Occupying a corner spot within Miami’s glittering Design District, where designer boutiques clamour for shopper’s attention, a new Prada concept store is making its presence known. From the outside, its exterior evokes the precision and rectilinear lines of 1960s design...

Design Miami 2017: the highlights

In Miami, Muller Van Severen open up their Belgian home for Airbnb

Fien Muller and Hannes van Severen of Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen have opened up their living room, or at least a replica of it, to the public in a highly personal interactive installation for Design Miami. Simultaneously, their...

ICA Miami’s new home has all the right angles

December is a good month for Miami; the creative crowds flock to the Florida capital to bask in the winter sun and take in the cultural treats that the season’s fairs, such as Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach...

Design Miami 2017 preview: the top 20 exhibitions and satellite events