Design Miami 2025 – All photos are by Jeanne Canto, unless stated, courtesy of the fair.

Design. Returning to its flagship Miami Beach home at Pride Park, Design Miami 2025 celebrates its 20th anniversary with over 80 exhibitors. This year’s theme, Make. Believe., explores the space where bold imagination meets craft. Here, fantasy becomes tangible, as designers transform visionary ideas into real objects grounded in expert making.

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SuperHouse at Design Miami 2025 – Photo by Matthew Gordon.

“Design Miami has always been a meeting point of practicality and possibility,” shares Curatorial Director Glenn Adamson. For Design Miami 2025, the aim is to ignite that spark of innovation across the fair. “We want visitors to feel that the future of design is unfolding right before their eyes.”

Exhibitors embrace the theme with contagious optimism. Colour dominates and playful installations inspire curiosity. Katie Stout embodies this energy with an interactive carousel spinning inside a kaleidoscopic booth of mirrors. Presented by the Miami Design District, the Portland-based artist also debuts whimsical, animal-shaped, oversized benches across the neighbourhood, extending the fair’s imagination into daily life.

Katie Stout x Miami Design District.

A similar appetite for experimentation emerges at SuperHouse gallery, where bright hues and bold shapes celebrate American creativity of the 1980s. The presentation features 12 pioneering designers, including Dan Friedman, Michele Oka Doner, and Pippa Garner — reminding us of how optimism, fearless forms, and bright colours can reshape culture.

SuperHouse in Miami – Photo by Matthew Gordon.

Material transformations take centre stage at Sten Studio’s Lithic Bloom: A Sculptural Garden. The Mexico City-based studio transforms the fragility of flowers and petals into immortalised stone. Reimagining the softness of leaves into mineral geometry, the vibrancy of life meets with sculptural permanence. These stone artefacts celebrate the diversity of botanical life, aligning beautifully with the fair’s celebration of nature reimagined through craftsmanship.

Lithic Bloom: A Sculptural Garden by Sten Studio.

Ceramics continue the playful mood at 1882 Ltd. Bethan Laura Wood’s Pickle Tower rises like a colourful character among Max Lamb’s pastel chairs and Bruce McLean’s expressive pieces. Even musician Robbie Williams joins the narrative with his drawing titled “glazed and confused,” proving design’s humour and freedom are fully alive here.

1882 ltd in Miami.

Fantasy deepens at Tuleste Factory’s Keep It Curious presentation, where surreal silhouettes, playful proportions and tactile surprises redefine function. Objects spark imagination rather than simply serve. Highlights include an emerald desk, a side table, and a mirror by Quincy Ellis, an Oracle Garde tapestry by Miranda Makaroff, a coffee table in powder-coated aluminium by Bert Furnari, and more.

Keep It Curious by Tuleste Factory.

Meanwhile, visions of home are reinterpreted through FENDI’s Fonderia Fendi with Conie Vallese. Calling on Italian artisans to work in bronze, ceramics, leather, glass, and carpet, the Argentinian designer and artist constructs a refined salotto — a domestic setting infused with feminine strength and Italian craft to celebrate the maison’s 100th anniversary.

Conie Vallese x FENDI.

Exploring another atmosphere entirely, Kohler immerses visitors beneath imagined waters in Underlight. Developed with Harry Nuriev’s Crosby Studio, the installation reveals the new iridescent Pearlized finish gleaming on sculptural sinks. A shimmering school of fish created in Kohler’s MakerSpace swim above, transforming innovation into an aquatic dreamscape.

Crosby Studio x Kohler – Courtesy of Kohler.

A new narrative of world-building unfolds with Hommemade, the design studio by American musician A$AP Rocky, who returns to Design Miami after a celebrated debut. Retro Futurism inspires objects that blend nostalgia with space-age speculation, as if viewed from a distant future reflecting back on our present.

A$AP Rocky’s HOMMEMADE in Miami 2025.

Cosmic themes continue at Friedman Benda. Joris Laarman’s Space Exchanger stretches the definition of screens as objects, while Misha Khan’s alien mirror hints at other dimensions. Fernando Laposse introduces Patachon and Patachin, monster lamps crafted with agave fibres — playful and materially daring.

Friedman Benda in Miami 2025.

Themes of memory and mythology come to the forefront at Le Febvre et Fils. Laurent Dufour’s two-metre-high ceramic totems explore forgotten symbols and collective archetypes. Blue Figure, Bird, Family, Bear, and Girl evoke ancient storytelling in contemporary form.

Laurent Dufour x Le Febvre et Fils.

Colour and technology merge in Nick Thomm’s Spectral Paintings, where digital aesthetics pulse across large canvases. The works offer a hypnotic counterpoint to the handcrafted, balancing tradition with the future of image-making.

Nick Thomm in Design Miami.

Lasvit, the award-winning design house renowned for its mastery of glassmaking, returns to Design Miami 2025 with Fragment of Time. Works by Martin Gallo, Jana Růžičková, Alessandro Mendini, and Maxim Velovský explore how glass can capture fleeting emotions. Their pieces preserve meaning within a material both fragile and eternal.

Fragment of Time by Lasvit.

The theme of reclaiming tradition continues with Friends Artspace. At the Virginia gallery’s showcase, designers reclaim overlooked craftsmanship. Kawabi’s wood-and-paper lighting draws on Japanese joinery to create sacred objects for imagined ancestors. Aspen Golann transforms humble brooms into sculptural treasures. Craft becomes empowerment, transforming the domestic into the poetic.

Friends Artspace in Miami.

Material experimentation and cross-disciplinary dialogue push ahead at The Future Perfect. Floris Wubben’s interconnected ceramic modules form a rhythmic coffee table. Olivia Cognet’s lamps glow with architectural timelessness. Works by Lindsey Adelman, Chris Wolston, Autumn Casey, and more reinforce this spirit of risk-taking.

The Future Perfect in Miami 2025 – Photo by Joe Kramm.

Among the fair’s Special Projects, PALAZZO by Mathieu Lehanneur brings elegance with a wink. His Familyscape sofa includes a handbag-shaped cushion illuminated by the floral Guernica lighting piece—a playful reminder that serious craft can still smile.

PALAZZO by Mathieu Lehanneur – Photo by Leandro Viana.

Finally, J. Lohmann Gallery’s Crafted Excellence champions technical mastery in ceramics. Works by Merete Rasmussen, Sara Dodd, Ahryun Lee, Toni De Jesus, Jongjin Park, and Sandra Davolio reveal how skill and imagination intertwine, highlighting the artistry at the heart of contemporary design.

J. Lohmann Gallery in Miami.

Design Miami 2025 marks two decades of celebrating design as a force for optimism and invention. Here, craft meets daring ideas. Visitors step into a future where creativity remains deeply human, joyful, and wonderfully curious.

Entrance of the fair.

All photos are by Jeanne Canda, unless stated – Courtesy of the fair.

Friedman Benda in Miami 2025.

SuperHouse at Design Miami 2025 – Photo by Matthew Gordon.