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Design Miami connects the world through extraordinary collectible design, with live fairs that bring together galleries, designers, brands, experts, collectors, and enthusiasts. Each edition of Design Miami 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. 
 
Design Miami has announced programming highlights for the 20th edition of its Miami Beach fair, returning to its flagship location at Pride Park from December 4 - 8, 2024, with Preview Day on December 3. Under curatorial director Glenn Adamson’s chosen theme, Blue Sky, over 45 world-leading galleries will present contemporary and historic highlights that demonstrate the power of a ‘blue sky thinking’ approach to design - past, present, and future.
 
Design Miami 2024 Gallery & Curio Highlights
The Blue Sky theme invites diverse engagement from exhibitors, underpinned by a commitment to design that exceeds expectations through bold leaps of imagination, thoughtful material innovation, and a respect for the natural world that houses us all under one, shared sky. Under this shared theme, several key thematic threads may be identified:
 
Optimistic Design: Radical Invention.
Taking a ‘blue sky thinking’ approach, the theme is a celebration of design as a fundamentally optimistic human activity, giving way to radical invention through conceptual and material innovation.
 
Under One Sky: A Global Outlook.
The theme also draws on the concept of our global community living under one sky, with galleries from across the globe coming together at Design Miami to spotlight artistic voices from around the world.
 
Highlights 
The Future Perfect (New York) will reflect on the curatorial theme Blue Sky through a curated presentation of almost 100 new works from over 20 artists and designers, including Anina Major, Laurids Gallée, Olivia Cognet, Vikram Goyal, and Sophie Lou Jacobsen.
 
Charles Burnand Gallery (London) presents a celebration of futuristic thinking and the limitless possibilities of creative expression. The presentation is defined by the remarkable array of materials being utilized by the selected designers like Heechan Kim, Steven John Clark, Studio Furthermore and more. 
 
Southern Guild (Cape Town/Los Angeles) returns to Design Miami with a focused presentation of contemporary ceramics by 12 artists from Africa who are shaping the discourse around the medium’s international resurgence. 
 
Gallery FUMI (London) will chart the history of groundbreaking design through a celebration of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary works, with a number commissioned especially for the fair. The designers spotlighted will include Max Lamb, Eelko Moorer, Emma Witter, and Sam Orlando Miller.
 
Sarah Myerscough Gallery (London) will delve into the forms and dimensions of the bedroom space, and how this nocturnal sanctuary is intricately connected to the needs of the human body. 
 
Lamb Gallery (London) will make its debut in the fair’s Curio program, presenting an immersive environment that will welcome visitors into a living room setting. The exhibition, titled Magnetic Midnight Maison, will unveil Lucía Echavarría’s newest capsule collection.
 
David Gill Gallery (London) will explore themes of form, material, and color through the lens of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s quote, “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.

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  • ?Gallery FUMI
  • Maison Gerard
  • Moderne Gallery
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