Discover Highlights from Design Miami.Paris 2025
From a menagerie of bronze animals by Vikram Goyal to Lucas Recchia’s sculptural glass and stone furniture, the third edition of Design Miami.Paris transforms Karl Lagerfeld’s former Left Bank residence into a showpiece for exceptional craftsmanship and material ingenuity
Europe’s art and design calendar shows no sign of slowing. After a lively week in London for Frieze and PAD, attention now turns to Paris, where Art Basel takes over the Grand Palais alongside a constellation of design-focused exhibitions and fairs, including Contributions and Design Miami.Paris. From October 22–26, the latter fair has returned to L’Hôtel de Maisons, the onetime residence of late couturier Karl Lagerfeld noted for its exquisitely appointed wood-paneled rooms, with its most expansive showing in Paris to date—fitting for the 20th anniversary of one of the collectible design industry’s most vital platforms. The presentation features more than 25 international galleries and an enlarged Design at Large program that showcases both historic and contemporary creations across the storied venue’s lavish salons and gardens.
“As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we’re pleased to see our engaged community continuing to grow, with Design Miami.Paris emerging as a mainstay in the annual design calendar each October,” said Jen Roberts, the fair’s CEO. “We look forward to continuing this creative momentum as we bring to life Design Miami in a setting that feels so deeply rooted in the local architecture and community of the surrounding cultural capital.”
Explore highlights from the fair below.
1. Galerie Mitterrand
Galerie Mitterrand presents a multigenerational showcase uniting Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne with their granddaughter, Julie Hamisky. Known for her electroplated sculptures, Hamisky captures the fragile contours of leaves and blossoms with an alchemical touch, transforming anthropomorphic forms into powerful metalworks. Her creations appear alongside the Lalannes’s iconic pieces, revealing a lineage of exceptional craftsmanship that threads through the family’s legacy. Beyond the booth, visitors encounter a pair of Tortues Topiaires in the garden, where bronze turtles sprout living greenery, and Lapin à vent (1994–2008), a patinated bronze rabbit-shaped weathervane that greets guests at the entrance.
2. Nilufar
Much like the storied Milanese collectible design depot celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Nilufar’s presentation moves fluidly between eras. Gabriella Crespi’s Eclipse low table, composed of crescent layers that shift like phases of the moon, anchors the vintage selection alongside works by Brazilian modernist Zanine Caldas, whose carved forms pulse with the grain of the wood. An array of contemporary works extend that dialogue through bold experimentation, from Christian Pellizzari’s vine-like Rye Ergot lamp in Murano glass to the ethereal tactility of Objects of Common Interest’s dazzling Lucid Dreamscape console in a luminous red resin made with Castinggg Studio.
3. Friedman Benda
Friedman Benda is showcasing a tightly curated mix of one-of-a-kind works that test the limits of material and form. Dutch designer Joris Laarman’s arresting Ply Loop console transforms plywood into fluid geometry through algorithmic modeling and bio-resin layering—it marks a revolutionary alternative to plywood manufacturing and precedes a planned solo exhibition at the gallery in the spring. A new cabinet by Mexican designer Fernando Laposse turns discarded corn husks into intricate marquetry. Frida Escobedo, exhibiting furniture in Europe for the first time, debuts a geometric chair meticulously draped with cascading nickel ball chains.
4. Atra
Mexico City studio Atra teamed up with renowned sculptor Pedro Reyes on an eye-catching installation comprising several freestanding forms that echo the primordial geometry of a pyramid cut, shifted, and reimagined into individual components converging around a singular chair. Viewed from above, the composition reads as an abstracted celestial map that honors the ways ancient civilizations aligned their monuments with the paths of the sun and stars.
5. The Future Perfect
For its Design Miami.Paris debut, The Future Perfect assembled a meditative menagerie by Vikram Goyal in the gardens of L’Hôtel de Maisons. Inspired by Indian fables and the sculptural language of François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, the installation unfolds through five bronze animals—Elephant, Tortoise, Tiger, Crocodile, and Snake—each embodying a universal virtue. Visitors can sit among the sculptures, read accompanying texts drawn from the Panchatantra, and encounter scent interventions by olfactory artist Sissel Tolaas, whose nano-molecule formulas evoke the creatures’ natural habitats.
6. Apple
Apple’s new Designers of Tomorrow program spotlights four emerging talents—Atelier Duyi Han, Jolie Ngo, Marie & Alexandre, and Marco Campardo—all of whom use the iPad in their creative process. Curated by AGO Projects founder Rodman Primack, the showcase explores how technology can deepen material inquiry. Han fashioned a dual-surface mirror backed with luminous white satin, embroidered with AI-generated text and anatomical motifs inspired by occult diagrams and therapeutic imagery. Chromatic vessels by Jolie Ngo merge 3D-printed clay and translucent plastic with airbrushed color and appliquéd detail, a lustrous homage to Vietnamese lanterns. Marie & Alexandre use thermoformed glass to create modular structures that stack, interlock, and shift function, their intersecting colored panels producing new hues where the layers overlap. Resembling a giant block of butter, a coffee table by Marco Campardo reinterprets the process of casting through a handmade cardboard mold that imprints each piece with unrepeatable textures.
7. Edgar Jayet
After debuting a suite of furnishings imbued with Vienna Secessionism’s structural clarity, design wunderkind Edgar Jayet continues his inquiry into the past with Le Bain du Collectionneur in collaboration with Paragone. The Parisian designer reimagined Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann’s 1925 Pavillon du Collectionneur for the present day, transforming the intimacy of a collector’s dressing room into a stage for fine craftsmanship. Created in collaboration with Maison Lelièvre and six leading ateliers, the ensemble of trunks, cabinets, and a daybed stands as a powerful tribute to Art Deco’s centenary. Works sourced from Galerie Dina Vierny, Galerie Chenel, Puiforcat, and Saint Louis crystal join the assortment.
8. Hostler Burrows
Frida Fjellman transformed Hostler Burrows’ salon into a decadent reverie titled The Soft Parade that reimagines Rococo through a contemporary lens. Responding to the 18th-century interiors of L’Hôtel de Maisons, the Swedish artist filled the room with blown glass and monumental ceramic works depicting wild boars, serpents, and other symbols of appetite and desire. A pastel palette drawn from the Palace of Versailles and filtered through the pop romanticism of Marie Antoinette casts the scene in lush color, while a towering chandelier of prismatic glass refracts shifting light across ruffled vases.
9. Galerie Brazil Modernist
Lucas Recchia furnished the gardens of L’Hôtel de Maisons with sculptural furniture that channels the natural abundance of his home country. The Brazilian designer is debuting seven new works, including the Zel collection—brass landscapes and tropical foliage encased between layers of fused glass—and a monumental bench carved from green quartzite from Bahia, inlaid with glass to reveal unexpected lightness. Additional pieces in bronze and glass include a centerpiece from his Distortion Material series, a tripod table, and a vase inspired by calabashes from his childhood.