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Final week, Design Miami—the world’s preeminent design truthful—swapped Southern Florida for Southern California, establishing store in a historic Los Angeles mansion by late architect Paul Williams. It was a landmark occasion: not solely is the truthful’s growth a testomony to the rising curiosity within the ornamental arts, however it additionally challenged the occasion’s conventional format. Whereas most commerce exhibits are held in conference facilities, Design Miami selected a residential setting the place lamps, chairs, tables, and extra have been displayed in actual rooms lived in by actual individuals. (Some artwork was even put within the bathe.)
“Frankly talking, simply as an outsider, once I go to different artwork festivals they’re sometimes in a conference heart, a tent, or an armory,” chairman Jesse Lee beforehand advised Vogue. “It’s not essentially the most effective expertise when it comes to envisioning the items in your house or your residence. We really feel like it is a extra pure state the place collectors can envision what [the artworks] would seem like of their residence. It’s additionally equally essential for galleries to have the ability to present in an area that’s a bit extra natural.” (Lee, in addition to his C.EO. Jen Roberts and curatorial director Ashlee Harrison additionally aimed to make the truthful, nicely, enjoyable: Virgil Village bakery Sqirl turned the kitchen right into a café, whereas a bar was arrange on the rolling grounds.)
So which artists—and items—had everybody speaking? Beneath, discover Vogue’s choose.
Carmen D’Apollonio
“Let me pay my taxes at this time!” by Carmen D’Apollonio, 2023.Courtesy of Friedman Benda/Evan Bedford