The Space In Between by Rive Roshan for Rademakers Gallery. (Photo by Paul Barbara)
Each December, the design and art elite flock to Miami to partake in inspiring shows dotting the beach and popping up around the city, whether it be Art Basel and Untitled Art or Scope Art Show and installations in the design district. This year, new methods and technologies for creating furnishings and home decor products took center stage at Design Miami, along with a focus on innovation in materiality and process. Here, Luxe explores the top trends from Design Miami 2023 where the world’s premier galleries gather to present the latest works from artists and craftspeople.
Discover Home Trends At Design Miami 2023
The Rise Of Ceramics
Jeremy Anderson’s stately lighting. (Photo: Courtesy of Stephane Aboudaram and Gallery Fumi)
The winner for best booth may belong to Gallery Fumi, but Brooklyn-based artist Jeremy Anderson made a splash with his debut collection of lighting. Mainly working in stoneware and porcelain, Anderson exhibited floor lamps and hanging pendants that explore the human condition through anthropomorphic shapes and forms. Although most of the artists use ancient materials like clay, Anderson’s works feel quite futuristic with LED strips, graphic shapes and tinted borosilicate glass. Clearly, ceramics are here to stay.
Sustainability Stance
R & Company presented Norman Teague’s vessels. (Photo: Courtesy R & Company)
Sustainable design has been on the rise in recent years, and makers are now looking to upcylced materials when crafting their latest wares. Take Chicago designer Norman Teague, whose vessels feature a sinewy, exaggerated foundation molded together in strips of post-consumer waste, with the idea of turning discards into something beautiful. Shown at the R & Company booth, Teague wants the bright colors of his work to reference everyday items—think bottles of cleaning solution or laundry detergent—while he continues to explore the idea of transforming plastics.
Exploration Of Technological Innovation
The 3D printed Voices vessel by Rive Roshan. (Photo by Paul Barbera)
Presented by Rademakers Gallery, the Curio booth by Rive Roshan, the artistic practice of Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan, was a beautiful jewel-box installation. Entitled The Space in Between, the Amsterdam duo explains how “this poetic sanctuary explores design as a tool for nurturing reflection, fresh ways of seeing, and, ultimately, the designers’ hope, connection.” Much research went into the colors, shapes and materials in this space and the 3D printed sand objects display the juxtaposition of natural materials and technological innovation, a theme explored throughout Design Miami 2023.
Otherworldly Displays Of Light
The Spore lighting series by Yonathan Moore shown at the Tuleste Factory booth. (Photo: Courtesy of Tuleste Factory)
Adding to the other dazzling light collections at Design Miami 2023, Israeli architect and designer Yonathan Moore had a strong showing of otherworldly pieces at the Tuleste Factory booth. A four-year exploration into the possibilities of acrylic, each bespoke light sculpture is made using traditional and fabricated techniques. Regarding the collection, Moore explains how it is “a study on how different light phenomenon can be harnessed to communicate softness as well as provoke curiosity within us, and how universal forms can invite us to imagine our collective, untold histories.”
Consider The Beauty Of Nature
Becoming Familiar, by Moral Turgeman and Kelsey Falterunder under Raise the Moral Studio. (Photo: Courtesy of James Harris for Design Miami)
Winning Curio’s Best in Show award, Becoming Familiar, the immersive experience by Moral Turgeman and Kelsey Falter under Raise The Moral Studio, presents a monochromatic and nurturing “womb-like” atmosphere for those who step inside. Here, the suspended botanical installation titled Orbit, where a trained bonsai tree and one that has been allowed to grow freely orbit one another, asks viewers to consider their connection with nature as the artists are continuously looking at the balance between the man-made and the biological.
Modern Cultural Storytelling
Zagwe Cabinet, 2023, by Jomo Tariku. (Photo: Courtesy of Wexler Gallery)
Virginia-based, Ethiopian-American industrial designer Jomo Tariku says his African heritage has always played a role in what he creates. Influenced by architectural styles found in Northern Ethiopia and the church of “Yemerhane Kiristos,” Tariku employs a mix of alternating white and brown textures and materials, including darker walnut and lighter ash wood, which can be seen with his large-scale project Zagwe Cabinet that was displayed at the Wexler Gallery booth.
