One of Miami Art Week’s most anticipated fairs, Design Miami returns to its hometown this year to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The event will take place from December 2-7 at its longstanding venue on Convention Center Drive and 19th Street in Miami Beach (South Beach). Scroll down for fair hours. 

Curated by design historian Glenn Adamson, the 2025 edition revolves around a theme that explores the boundary between fabrication and imagination: “Make. Believe.” The concept celebrates Design Miami's legacy and future trajectory by highlighting design as a space where imagination meets craft—visionary ideas brought to life through material mastery. 

Glenn Adamson puts it plainly: the fair is a place for “skilled craft and wild flights of imagination” to converse, forging a bridge between established design voices and rising talent. 

The fair promises a bounty of opportunities to see and purchase some of the world’s most unique, significant and whimsical objects, including home furnishings, jewelry, fashion, lighting, and objets d’art. 

If you are shaping the look and feel of your home or workspace, or a decorative art and design collector, Design Miami 2025 gives you access to a smorgasbord of top galleries, world-class artists and collectible objects.

Our Expert Picks: Galleries Program

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This year’s edition features 70 exhibitors, including some favorites from past editions and over 25 new presenters making their debut at Design Miami. The Galleries program features international leaders in collectible design with exhibitions that celebrate the convergence of art and function. 

Here is our expert pick of the essential galleries to visit at Design Miami 2025's Galleries Program:

• Adrian Sassoon: Known for its exquisite collection of works in porcelain and glass, the gallery features new work by Kate Malone.
• Ateliers Courbet: Drawing inspiration from Art Nouveau, this presentation focuses on master craftsmanship by a variety of artists and designers. 
• Charles Burnand Gallery: This year’s theme, titled “Monuments of Ether,” reimagines the monumental through speculative, memory-driven works.
• Delvis (Un)limited Gallery: An inviting presentation into an intimate “living” environment, where collectible design and living space converge.
• Friedman Benda: This year’s exhibition spans multiple generations of designers from around the globe, combining craft, architecture, and research. 
• Galerie SCÈNE OUVERTE: The ceramics-focused gallery explores the theme of “Make. Believe.” through expressive, gestural pieces that highlight materiality. 
• Galerie Signé: An expansive exploration of diverse materials such as glass, wood, ceramic, and textiles, with a focus on the history of design, featuring works by Marie & Alexandre, Julie Richoz, Martin Szekely, and others.
• Hostler Burrows: This year’s “Ten Women” exhibition features the work of female artists and designers working in themes of nature, science, and craft.
• Ippodo Gallery: Rooted in Japanese tradition, this year’s presentation showcases contemporary kogei artists with works that explore light, texture, and spiritual reflection.
• J. Lohmann Gallery: Specializing in ceramics, this year’s “Crafted Excellence” exhibition features works by ceramicists Merete Rasmussen, Ahryun Lee, Toni De Jesus, Jongjin Park, and others. 
• Mass Modern Design: “Art Meets Furniture” presents visionary furniture of the 20th century showcasing the overlap between fine art and design.
• Mercado Moderno: The Brazilian gallery features the cream of Brazilian design, with works by Zanine Caldas and Jorge Zalszupin alongside emerging creators. 
• Mindy Solomon Gallery: The homegrown Miami-based gallery presents “Dawn,” an exhibition of basketry, glass, textiles, and repurposed materials. 
• Moderne Gallery: Expressing a profound respect for natural material and organic forms, this year’s exhibition features rare pieces by George Nakashima.
• Ornamentum: This whimsical exhibition titled "Holon Retina" features a reflective wall composed of 324 camera lenses, merging vision, imagination, and a playful exploration of light.
• Wexler Gallery: The exhibition focuses on material-driven, imaginative works in glass, metal, and mixed media that emphasize the maker’s hand in their creation. 

Other renowned galleries and studios worth visiting include Todd Merrill Studio, R & Company, The Future Perfect, Theoreme Editions, and Thomsen Gallery.

Our Top Choices: Curios Program

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The Curios section of the fair is an invitation to step inside the designers’ imagination, appealing to lovers of conceptual design. Here, designers, architects, curators, and gallerists don’t just exhibit work, they build entire narrative-driven environments. Each presentation becomes its own story, a kind of modern cabinet of curiosities, where visitors can wander through ideas, materials, and emotions.

Here is our expert selection of the top galleries to visit at Design Miami 2025's Curios Program:

• ATRATABO: A conceptual environment where art, design, and territory are understood as one living system. The installation merges architecture, music, and art with the landscape, expressing the creative rhythm of the world around us. 
• Bea Interiors Design: The gallery presents “The Bubble” Collection by Bea Pernia, a series of sculptural yet functional works made in marble, limestone, and wood. The set includes chairs, tables, and even a DJ booth, forming an immersive landscape that contemplates balance, texture, and light. 
• Elisabetta Cipriani (Wearable Art): “A World Within a World” features artist-made jewelry that serves as portals into imagined, miniature universes. The works explore storytelling, transformation, and wonder through intricate materials. 
• Friends Artspace: Showcases artists who rework traditional materials and techniques into contemporary heirlooms and whose work bridges craft, memory, and reimagined meaning.
• Garrido Gallery: “The ARGENTUM project” presents contemporary designers working in traditional Spanish silversmithing techniques to create limited-edition silver objects, combining historic craftsmanship with a modern sensibility. 
• Hicham Ghandour: Shows a collection blending contrast and craftsmanship, with sculptural objects made from mixed materials that balance modern aesthetics with timeless uniqueness. 
• Marcela Cure: “The Form Before” is a sculptural installation that meditates on transformation. An amber resin chair hangs upside down, spilling a golden thread into a glowing pool, with a faceted mirror reflecting on what was once formed. 
• Mouvements Modernes: Offers a dialogue between design heritage and contemporary vision, featuring iconic pieces from historic designers such as Néotù placed in conversation with new works that reinterpret these forms using modern techniques. 
• PET Lamp: This exhibition combines sustainable practice and craftsmanship, featuring discarded plastic bottles transformed via weaving and traditional techniques within artisan communities to create functional lighting objects that reflect sustainability and cultural preservation. 
• Roham Shamekh Studio: Displays “The Roots Sofa,” a radical sculptural piece that embodies collective human experience, memory, and emotion. It’s not just furniture, but a manifestation of shared history and consciousness. 
• Simone Crestani × Galerie SCÈNE OUVERTE: A space composed of glass and light, where the flow and evolution of forms are expressed through blown-glass “sediments.” A poetic exploration of memory, time, and the material dimension of life. 
• Sten Studio: “Lithic Bloom” is a sculptural garden immortalizing flora in stone. Leaves, petals, and water-like forms are transformed into enduring stone artworks that celebrate the essence and diversity of nature. 
• Superhouse: “Presenting American Art Furniture: 1980–1990” is a survey of radical, experimental works by 12 pioneering designers including Dan Friedman, Wendy Maruyama, and Michele Oka Doner. Many of the works are being shown publicly for the first time. 
• The Spaceless Gallery: A curated selection of contemporary works focusing on light, movement, and materiality. The presentation merges technical mastery with poetic craftsmanship. 

Additional exhibitors in the Curios Program include 1882 Ltd, Arquitectonica, Atelier Crestani, ATRA, Bossa, Merida Studio, Nick Thomm, SI VIS PACEM, Tokio, Tuleste Factory and others.

Bonus: Special Projects + Design Miami 2.0 – What To See

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Among the Special Projects are particularly memorable, visionary design projects and emerging voices to watch, such as:

• Achille Salvagni Atelier: In “Memories of the Future,” 1950s Italian design meets contemporary Salvagni creations to create a visually symbolic, memory-laden dialogue. 
• Hostler Burrows / Eun-Ha Paek: Features new multimedia works from Paek’s residency at Kohler that focus on identity, material, and form. 
• Korea Craft & Design Foundation × Gallery LVS: Showcases ceramics, textiles, hanji, and metal works, highlighting Korean traditional and contemporary design. 
• Malaparte & Gagosian: “Casa Malaparte: Furniture” features furniture based on Curzio Malaparte’s cliffside home as well as historical and sculptural works. 
• Nouvel – Glass Reflections: An experimental glass residency, unveiling international designers working in glass in new ways. 

Design Miami 2.0 features eight forward-looking design studios, all aligned with the Make. Believe. theme: 

• Jack Craig (via David Klein Gallery): Presents sculptural works made from molded carpet. 
• KAMEH: Showcases desert-inspired wooden and stone sculptures, working with transient emotional forms.
• Dirk van der Kooij: Displays works made from repurposed materials such as 3D-printed stainless steel and milled wood shavings.
• Mehdi Dakhli: Features the “Muravey Chair” made of pink ivory wood and soft, cushy upholstery.
• Stephen Burks (in collaboration with ALPI / Friedman Benda): In “The Lost Cloth Object,” marquetry meets textile heritage to create unexpected results.
• Steven Young Lee: Presents a collection of fragmented ceramics that evoke archaeological relics.
• Tina Frey Designs: Features a selection of sculptural objects that focus on function.
• Victoria Yakusha: “The Land of Light II” exhibits mythic sculptural beings made of sustainable materials.

Why Visit Design Miami 2025?

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If you’re passionate about collectible design—whether as a collector, designer, curator, or simply an admirer—this milestone edition offers a retrospective on two decades of design, celebrating heritage and innovation. You’ll find bold new works that push the boundaries of material, form, and narrative, and immersive installations that aren’t just visual, but also spatial and conceptual. 

For those who want to dive even deeper into the world of design, the fair also offers thought-provoking programming such as talks and panel discussions that contextualize design in a global, cultural frame.

Design Miami 2025 invites you to make with mastery and believe in what design can be: a place where craftsmanship, creativity, and imagination converge under one roof. This 20th-Anniversary edition is one you won’t want to miss!

When To Visit Design Miami 2025

Tuesday, December 2 – Sunday, December 7, 2025 

VIP Previews (By Invitation Only)

Tuesday, December 2

• Members Preview: 11 am – 1 pm 
• Collectors Preview: 1 pm – 6 pm 
• Press Preview: 2 pm – 6 pm 

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• VIP Preview: 11 am – 1 pm 

Public Show Days (With ticket or VIP)

• Wednesday, December 3, 1 pm – 7 pm 
• Thursday, December 4 – Saturday, December 6, 11 am – 7 pm 
• Sunday, December 7, 11 am – 6 pm
  
  

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