DESIGN

Back for its second Miami edition in a new location—Miami River Inn, the city’s oldest, in Little Havana—this Milanese fair offers its multi-cottage venue to emerging and independent design talents who are experimenting with new materials, forms, or otherwise pushing establishment boundaries. Here are five works that leave an impression.


BY ELIZABETH FAZZARE


December 06, 2024

1,033 Tangerines by Ananas Ananas. Credit: Piergiorgio Sorgetti.
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1,033 Tangerines by Ananas Ananas

These large mirror-polished stainless steel vessels offer slices of tangerines and a message about food production waste to passersby while slowly rotating over the Miami River Inn’s swimming pool. Filled with 17,572.84 gallons of water, it holds what’s needed to produce 200 pounds of the beloved Miami citrus.

XC Objects Sconce by Parasite 2.0 x Bianco67. Credit: Stefano Colombo
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XC Objects Sconce by Parasite 2.0 x Bianco67

This collaboration between two Italian design studios upcycles luxurious stone offcuts as dynamic lighting. Here, an irregular waste slab of pink onyx glows from within, gaining a surprisingly soft quality for its physical heft, held by a dry-joint system that allows endless configurations.

Credit: Jialun Xiong
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Kaleidoscope End Table by Jialun Xiong

This bent-metal side table by this Los Angeles-based designer and first-time curator, who brought together the work of six designers (including herself) for a group show booth titled Something Last, explores the delicate quality of a material most-often associated with heavy industrial use.

Room—File: Corseted Ceremony Seat by Jirah Joshua. Image courtesy of the designer.
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Room—File: Corseted Ceremony Seat by Jirah Joshua

In a red velvet swagged room shared with designs by peers in his self-described “mother agent” Room—File, New York-based designer Jirah Joshua’s leather-corseted chair draws formal references from handmade pews, church benches, and soaring cathedral arches while its tactile cover material beckons touch.

The Nonconformist Tropical Garden by Sema Topaloglu. Credit: Piergiorgio Sorgetti
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The Nonconformist Tropical Garden by Sema Topaloglu

Woven with delicate glass florals and baubles, this romantic bronze and brass bedroom set—complete with a canopy frame, bespoke curtains, sconces, and much more—brings an imagination-driven take on Miami’s tropical landscape inside the fair’s historic inn setting.

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