Standout Gallery Booths at Design Miami’s 20th Edition

Design Miami opens December 2–7 at Pride Park in Miami Beach for its 20th year. Glenn Adamson curated this edition around the theme “Make. Believe.,” pushing skilled craft and wild imagination. Over 70 galleries show up, 25 of them for the first time. Cultured Magazine picks six booths that capture the fair’s bold spirit, heavy on material experiments and design stories. Modern Luxury covers the anniversary focus on craft and exhibitions.

Market Heat Behind the Fair

Design and furniture sales jumped 20 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2025, per Bank of America’s Art Markets Trend Report. That’s outpacing other luxury sectors. Deloitte’s 2025 Art & Finance Report projects $992 billion in art and collectibles trades over the next decade. WWD ties this to fairs like Design Miami, now with outposts in Paris and Seoul.

Six Booths to Hit First

Cultured Magazine spotlights these for their take on the theme:

Delvis (Un)Limited (Milan): Rich Aybar’s rubber Slug Chair looks and feels like a gooey slug. Objects of Common Interest shows a pink resin rock that opens into a bar and speaker.
Galerie Maruani & Noirhomme (London): Jagged vases by Kate Malone and glass by Joon Yong Kim play with transparency and stone-like forms.
Wexler Gallery: Henry Baumann’s resin towers mimic primordial ooze. Sofia Karakatsanis carves chairs from wood, letting the grain guide the shape.
Friedman Benda (NY/LA): Javier Senosiain architecture, Nicole Cherubini ceramics, Fernando Laposse monster lamps from corn husks. New: Stephen Burks and ALPI mix Kuba cloth patterns with rare woods.
Superhouse (NY): 1980s American furniture rebels like Dan Friedman’s folding screen and Alex Locadia’s rare Batman Chair.
The Future Perfect (London): Monumental pieces from Marc Fish, DEGLAN, others using charred wood, dichroic effects, stacked hanji paper. Jan Waterston’s ash Strata Cabinet anchors it.

Celebrity and Special Projects

Robbie Williams debuts furniture with Moooi: the Introvert Chair, priced from $4,395, nods to personal space. Objects of Common Interest’s pink Holy Mountain cabinet appears here too, via Delvis. Fendi teams with Conie Vallese for bronze, ceramic, and leather living room pieces plus a Peekaboo bag. Achille Salvagni Atelier pairs 1950s Gio Ponti and Piero Fornasetti with new works. These join Italian design during Art Week, Miami Living Magazine reports. Lasvit’s “Fragment of Time” features glass from Martin Gallo, Jana Růžičková, Alessandro Mendini, and Maxim Velčovský. Clive Christian Perfume and Crosby Studios build a scent-inspired monochromatic space. Victoria Yakusha’s “Land of Light II” at 2.0 pairs Ukrainians with mythical creatures in her Ztista material. Es Devlin sets up a triangular bookshelf rotating in a mirrored pool at Faena (Designboom). Hyperallergic features Linda Lopez’s ‘Golden Hour Mop’ and other Design Miami works.

Miami’s boom—second homes for the ultra-wealthy, billionaires like Jeff Bezos—fuels the fair’s pull as a midpoint between Europe and the U.S. West Coast.