Miami 2025: A New Vision of Collectible Design & Art
Miami, Reimagines the Future of Collectible Craft with a Radical, Museum-Quality Vision
The twenty-first edition of Design Miami arrived in Miami Beach from December 3–7, 2025, marking the culmination of this fair’s twentieth anniversary with a bold curatorial vision and a constellation of high-profile collaborations. Under the direction of curator and writer Glenn Adamson, this edition introduces Design Miami 2.0, a museum-quality showcase of eight international design studios presenting capsule collections of new work in sculptural form. Conceived as both a celebration and a reboot, the title is both invitation and provocation, echoing the fair’s annual theme, Make. Believe., which asserts the enduring power of imaginative design in shaping culture and the built environment.
Photography, Library of US by Es-Devlin, for Faena. Credit Oriol Tarridas.
British designer Es Devlin brings a contemplative spectacle to neighbouring Miami Art Week 2025, collaborating with Faena to unveil the US edition of her acclaimed rotating library, first presented in Milan. The installation takes the form of a triangular bookshelf sculpture containing 2,500 books, slowly revolving within a reflective pool to create a serene, meditative environment that invites viewers to pause, read, and reflect.
Throughout the week, the work becomes a cultural catalyst, hosting a programme of talks, readings, performances, and workshops that underscore Devlin’s ongoing interest in collective knowledge, shared experience, and the choreography of public space. Following its presentation in Miami, all 2,500 books will be donated to local schools and libraries, extending the installation’s spirit of generosity far beyond its sculptural presence.
A New Era for Design Miami 2.0
Unfolding across Pride Park, opposite the Miami Beach Convention Center, the fair reflects a renewed ambition: to position design as a vital cultural force, and to reinforce Miami as a global hub for creativity, experimentation, and cross-disciplinary exchange. Anchoring this shift is the debut of the inaugural Title Partnership between Design Miami and Bank of America Private Bank, a collaboration that underscores the bank’s commitment to cultivating design’s next generation while championing the cultural economy at large.
Iconic Brands Reimagine Craft, Luxury, and Material Innovation
Design Miami, Fendi & Conie Vallese. Photography, Giulio Ghirardi
This ethos of reinvention reverberates through the fair’s partner program, which brings together luxury brands, design houses, automotive innovators, fashion maisons, and cultural institutions, each responding to the Make. Believe. theme in distinctive and sensorial ways. In celebration of its centeary, FENDI unveils Fonderia Fendi by artist Conie Vallese, transforming traditional Italian craft into an intimate domestic tableau rendered in bronze, ceramic, glass, carpet, and leather, accompanied by a limited-edition Peekaboo bag. In the Miami Design District, Katie Stout debuts Gargantua’s Thumb, a surreal series of oversized benches and suspended sculptural forms that transform the streetscape into a playful ecosystem of motion and wonder.
Photography, Gargantuas Thumb, by Katie Stout, Design Miami 2025.
The spirit of material experimentation is also central to the U.S. debut of the Range Rover SV Black, presented through an immersive installation titled Dipped in Black, inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and expressed through reductionist geometry, sensory design, and pioneering haptic technology.
Luxury, craft, and sensory immersion continue with Clive Christian Perfume and Crosby Studios, whose installation Perfume Transformism turns scent into architecture, as well as Gaggenau, whose expressive installation reimagines the oven as a sculptural manifesto in marble, acrylic, and engineered light.
Photography, Perfume-Transformism, installation by Clive Christian Perfume, and Crosby Studios
Architectural Interventions and Immersive Cultural Spaces
Photography, Henge, Collectors Lounge, Design Miami, Art Week 2025
Architecture studio Arquitectonica responds with an atmospheric design for the Design Talks Theater, weaving Vitruvian principles with a palette of sculptural shadows, historic seating, and chromatic energy to create a space for exchange, reflection, and celebration.
Design Miami’s commitment to material innovation and collectible craft also manifests in the CADAR by Venini Candle Collection, a modular glass series with fragrances by Alberto Morillas, and in The Collectors Lounge by Henge, shaped as a serene architectural landscape where form, texture, and craftsmanship converge.
Design Miami’s Global Community of Designers, Schools, and Visionaries
Trappist 1, 2024 by Jack Craig for David Klein Gallery.Photography, Design Miami 2025
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) presents Haptic Enchantment, a tranquil exploration of fibers, ceramics, and sculptural installation, anchored by a monumental work by Sarah Fonzi. Czech design house Lasvit returns with Fragment of Time, capturing emotional memory through extraordinary glass works, while Technogym’s Design to Move translates movement and wellness into cultural practice through collaborations with forty designers.
The program expands further with immersive expressions of material narrative and mythological imagination, from Piaget’s The Golden Factory, paying homage to Andy Warhol, to sculptural series and collectible works by Jack Craig, KAMEH, Dirk van der Kooij, Mehdi Dakhli, Stephen Burks Man Made, Steven Young Lee, TF Design, and Victoria Yakusha, each offering a distinct vision of form, time, and the human condition.
The Land of Light II is a sculptural series that embodies human qualities through mythological forms, offering functional companions that preserve inner light and resilience in a changing world.
A Future-Facing Vision for Collectible Design
Across its installations, performances, collectible works, and architectural interventions, Design Miami 2025 affirms the fair’s role as a catalyst for creativity and cultural discourse. The anniversary edition is not simply a look back at two decades of influence, but a forward-facing experiment that asks what design can imagine next. By embracing radical materiality, sensory experience, and interdisciplinary collaboration, Design Miami 2.0 heralds a new era—one defined by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that design remains one of the most powerful tools we have to build new worlds.