Maison & Objet Americas - 2015 - Issue 1

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m&O TABLE OF CONT ENTS

The Lumio lamp by Max Gunawan. above: A Malla carpet

by Mohaded Studio for El Espartano.

Letter from the managing Director

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by Design: highLights of the show

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A sampling of the must-see players in design, décor, and the living arts at Maison&Objet Americas. gLobaL PersPectives

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Maison&Objet celebrates 20 years of bringing together the best and brightest in the fields of home décor and interior design.

Destination asia

Designing for the future

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Zanini de Zanine, Maison&Objet Americas’ first Designer of the Year, discusses the culture of reuse in his native Brazil and how it informs his design sensibility.

For its first venture beyond Paris, Maison&Objet launches in Singapore. rising american taLents awarDs coming to america

With the debut of Maison&Objet Americas, the venerable brand showcases new designs and innovative ideas from North and South America.

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Seven up-and-comers from North and South America will shape the future of design.

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photography by francisco nocito (carpet); courtesy of max gunawan (lumio); trunk archive (cover)

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EyEs on MiaMi

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A crossroads metropolis on the frontier of design, Miami welcomes the first Maison&Objet Americas fair.

ThE Magic of MiaMi

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A brief history of the design pioneers who helped transform the Miami skyline. | 84

The Design District is the place to be during Maison&Objet Americas. in ThE MusEuMs

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Miami’s top museums showcase stellar attractions during the fair. accEss

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A schedule of events, special programming, and happenings during M&O Americas.

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Managing Director Philippe Brocart talks about his goals for the Americas.

With the debut of Maison&objet aMericas, the collective universe of Maison&objet comes together for the frst time at a vital crossroads of north and south america: Miami beach. the city is not just the natural choice for expanding Maison&objet into this part of the world, but the right one as well. Miami attracts more than 14 million visitors a year and has a long history of drawing investors and creatives alike. showcasing close to 350 exclusive brands in north and south america, Maison&objet brings its internationally recognized expertise in identifying the best in design and its ability to expand opportunities in lifestyle and home decoration to this dynamic and vibrant region of the world. at the fair, two major sections—interior design and home decoration—will provide visitors with a chance to discover the all-encompassing universe of Maison&objet americas. While focusing on talents from north and south america, the show will also highlight design from over 24 countries in europe and asia. during the fair, many of the frst-class showrooms in Miami’s design district will offer a multitude of activities. Local museums and galleries will create pop-up events for fairgoers as well. the future-thinking spirit of Maison&objet will be revealed through the rising talents sector and at the interior design & Lifestyle summit. for the former, seven promising designers from the us, canada, Mexico, argentina, colombia, and brazil have been selected to show their inspirational work and allow visitors into each of their unique design universes. at the interior design & Lifestyle summit, a series of talks with noted experts will provide fairgoers with the opportunity to learn about key market trends and prestigious new design projects. discussions will also look at the accelerated growth in interconnectivity between design movements and different lifestyles around the globe. renowned american designers will share their visions and aspirations. for this frst americas edition of Maison&objet, we are very pleased to honor as designer of the Year the internationally acclaimed brazilian designer Zanini de Zanine. a very special ceremony will be held at frank Gehry’s breathtaking new World center to present both the designer of the Year and the rising talents awards before guests from the realms of design, media, and real estate.

We are delighted to partner with niche Media, publisher of the magazines Ocean Drive and Art Basel in Miami Beach, to create this frst offcial Maison&objet americas publication. it provides a history of Maison&objet’s evolution and an overview of the wide range of offerings at the fair, the talents we celebrate, as well as the city we have chosen as our american home. so join us from May 12 to 15 at the Miami beach convention center—along with the trendsetters, international designers, prominent architects, experts in lifestyle retail, innovators, and strategy makers—and discover all that Maison&objet americas has to offer.

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Global PersPectives Maison&Objet celebrates 20 years of design innovation.

by Earlwyn Covington

The installation chocolatexture

by Nendo Studio, Maison&Objet Paris’s 2015 Designer of the Year. Oki Sato, the founder of Nendo, wanted to fashion a space where his pieces would be experienced with all the senses.

After creating chocolates in different textures, he commissioned furniture in a chocolate color and painted 2,000 aluminum rods in a similar color gradient.

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to analyze new trends, and to introduce fairgoers— architects, interior designers, retailers, and other industry infuencers—to fresh talent and ideas. these sectors offered new aesthetic perspectives, demonstrating, for example, how such diverse themes as “ethnic chic” (referencing far-fung cultures and contemporary notions of exoticism) and “urban nature” (exploring options for sustainable living) were essential to advancing the design discourse. in 2000, now! design à vivre (now! design for life) was introduced. this important sector looks at up-and-coming designers who are experimenting with form, transforming materials, mixing interior styles, and working with familiar objects in unfamiliar ways. over the years, visitors to Maison&objet fairs couldn’t help but be impressed by the extraordinary range of objects on display in the many exhibition halls, the heavy turnout, and the vibrant mood as so many design spheres came together under one roof. if Deyan sudjic, director of London’s Design Museum, is correct in stating that we are living in a world drowning in objects, then trade fairs like Maison&objet might

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by Elizabeth Leriche, at the Paris fair last September.

Maison&objet began with an ambitious mission: to gather the best and brightest talents in home décor and interior design in order to expose industry leaders from around the world to exciting developments in the feld. two decades ago, salons Français et internationaux (saFi, a subsidiary of ateliers d’art de France and Reed expositions France) merged several Paris-based trade shows, including Paas, Moving, tex’styles, Mic, arts Cuisine, and Parallèle, under one brand name, and Maison&objet was born. it was a hit right from the start, with 1,250 exhibitors and more than 38,000 visitors attending the event at the Parc des expositions Villepinte, the second-largest convention center in France (conveniently located near Charles de gaulle airport for international guests). today, Maison&objet is known worldwide, with its fairs in Paris, singapore, and Miami serving as influential international platforms for all that is new in the design and living arts. as the fair grew in scope and reach, the saFi team that organizes Maison&objet created new sectors within the show to stimulate thinking about design,

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be considered a cause. But has this event really helped generate the food? The answer is both simple and complex. Maison&Objet gathers the design world’s myriad players, identifies shifts in consumer taste, and promotes creativity and the creation of new objects, which stimulates the market, producing both tangible and intangible results—and value. In 2002, Maison&Objet formed l’observatoire de la Maison, an initiative whose advisory board analyzes emerging design and lifestyle trends and develops strategies to react to them. From these analyses, new themes are identifed, which are then brought forth for interpretation at the fairs.

A visitor to Maison&Objet’s twice yearly Paris show can see the sometimes revolutionary shifts in society refected in the exhibits and objects on display. When organizing a fair, Maison&Objet strives to harness the energy, spirit, and dynamism of the zeitgeist through programs like Rising Talents, which showcases emerging designers; international Lifestyle Summits, gatherings of major players in the feld; and of course the Designer of the Year award. Whether in Paris, Singapore, or now Miami, the fairs reflect the

extraordinary diversity of the world’s markets and provide an insightful overview of the multicultural variety of modern life.

The appointment of Philippe Brocard in 2012 as the new director of Maison&Objet meant a return to the fair’s essentials. “The shows are a unique chance to discover the unexpected and a projection into the future of living, as well as a springboard for brand growth,” he said. In expanding outside Paris, Brocart explained, “the idea was to create regional hubs for both the Asia-Pacifc and Americas regions, providing creative and business platforms for our global design community.”

Over the past 20 years, Maison&Objet has nurtured and supported groundbreaking synergies involving such dynamic innovators as Philippe Starck, Philippe Nigro, the Bouroullec brothers, Tom Dixon, and Odile Decq, to name a few. Other discoveries—from the design culinaire of Marc Bretillot to the digital technologies of Mathieu Lehanneur—epitomize Maison&Objet’s passion for and ability to identify the most exciting forward-thinkers in the feld.

“Techno Made,” curated

by Vincent Grégoire, at the Maison&Objet fair this past January in Paris.

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Work by top emerging talent Paul Roco from Mexico, as seen in the Talents à la Carte exhibition. right: Visitors at the Maison&Objet fair this past January in Paris.

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Maison&Objet leverages its knowledge and expertise to gather a broad spectrum of talent and create economic synergies. Assembling a global design forum of this scope is complex, requiring the ability to embrace “the other” and step outside the comfort zone of language or socioeconomic reality, to envision a world where design is integrated to inform and improve daily life. The sociocultural impact of Maison&Objet cannot be ignored: It has developed a now global series of events populated with the objects that surround us every day, as well as with the people who design, produce, and distribute them. It is a system, an enterprise, driven by people from diverse countries, cultures, and design disciplines. Maison&Objet is about people in all of their beautiful variety, and that makes it one of the best shows in the world.

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In 2011, Maison&Objet initiated Paris Design Week, which runs concurrently with the show, adding a further cultural dimension to the fair’s activities. And each yearly theme presents an opportunity to discover more of the unexpected—in decoration, design, furniture, accessories, textiles, fragrances, tableware—and to celebrate the vitality of Paris as a capital of creation.

Now Maison&Objet has extended its reach to Asia and the Americas, bringing the strategies that have made it such a success in Paris to other parts of the world. But no matter where Maison&Objet puts down roots, it offers unparalleled imagination and innovation. Miami is the latest city to share the extraordinary vision of this groundbreaking player in the feld of design and decoration.

Bringing together the hemispheres—a word that refers to both geography and brain power—

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The “Techno Made” exhibit at the January 2015 Paris show. bottom: The Espace teamLab, “World Unleashed and Then Connecting,” presented at M&O Paris in January.

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Paris has been integral to Maison&objet’s identity as a design tasteMaker (even its name is appropriately French), so why did it choose to mount a show outside of Paris—and why singapore of all places? it turns out the reasons were both creative and economic. From an artistic perspective, a fair in asia would engage the design world with a vast, diverse, non-Western aesthetic and novel ways of thinking about design. the fnancial reasons were equally compelling: asia has enjoyed explosive economic growth since 2003, and singapore has long been a leading regional player in the luxury market as well as a place where innovative design and fashion have fourished. (the city-state is part of the asean Free-trade area, and its luxury market was valued at $4.3 billion in 2013.) in addition, international interest in Maison&objet had grown each year, with more than 85,000 attendees and 3,000 exhibitors coming from all over the world. so the time was right to move the fair abroad.

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Infanta With Vase wallpaper and soft furnishings from Sydney’s Kerrie Brown Design at the March 2015 fair in Asia. Brown is a former set decorator and Academy Award nominee.

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To present a broader range of perspectives on design, Maison&Objet chose Singapore for its frst venture beyond Paris.

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The official announcement of Singapore as the frst destination in Maison&Objet’s expansion was made in June 2013. The strategic objective was to broaden the fair’s impact in the international design community, expanding its global reach as never before.

Shortly after the press conference detailing the plans, the Maison&Objet team, led by Managing Director Philippe Brocart, began an “Asian Road Show” with the goal of attracting top players in the design feld to the new fair, a journey that began in Bangkok, continued on to Manila and Hong Kong, and ended in Ho Chi Minh City. In 10 days, the Parisian team and its Asian partners generated so much interest in the project that the buzz reached well beyond Asia to other parts of the world.

The frst Maison&Objet Asia, held in March 2014 at the Marina Bay Sands Resort, surpassed even the most optimistic projections, with over 10,000 visitors exploring the exhibition hall during the day. More than 270 exhibitors showcased their work alongside that of local designers, bringing together some of the most remarkable and promising talents in the AsiaPacifc region. Maison&Objet Paris’s Designer of the Year, renowned British designer Tom Dixon, opened the fair with a keynote speech and shared the limelight with colorful pieces from the Trame collection, created by Kenneth Cobonpue, the first Designer of the Year for Maison&Objet Asia.

Although far from Paris, the Asia show nonetheless evinced the special quality that char-

acterizes the French fair and makes it the ultimate conversation starter for all that is new in home design and l’art de vivre. Maison&Objet’s singular esprit was seen in the opening lifestyle forum, featuring 20 conferences (divided into fve themes) that included trend forecasters, renowned architects, retail experts, and design-school representatives.

The Lifestyle Summit invited visitors and exhibitors to challenge contemporary thought on design with a stellar cast of influential industry personalities, including Paola Navone, André Fu, Kelley Cheng, and, of course, Designers of the Year Cobonpue and Dixon.

The Rising Asian Talents awards honored emerging creatives from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Singapore, who shared the spotlight with Manila’s Cobonpue, acclaimed for his masterful blending of traditional craft and groundbreaking technologies. After studying at New York’s Pratt Institute, Cobonpue returned to Manila so he could “invent an alternative to the Western defnition of design,” a goal he achieves with deft skill by pairing locally sourced organic materials with innovative manual production techniques. His designs populate a one-of-a-kind universe of spaces and objects, inspired by the shapes found in nature.

The more than 270 brands represented at the Singapore fair exhibited in one of three categories: Luxe, Design, or Interior Decoration. Luxury is a fitting theme for Singapore, as the city-state is wellknown for the strong presence of high-end brands, making it a popular shopping destination in the region. International luxury labels have increasingly branched out into home design, and the fair hosted a number of them, highlighting the design, craftsmanship, and tradition that these established names are carrying into interiors.

With its eclectic assortment of stylish and innovative offerings, the Design section demonstrated how vast, varied, and inventive design can be, with exhibitors reaching far beyond the traditional to provide a real glimpse of what the future holds for furniture and home décor. Whether crafting pieces for interior or outdoor living spaces, designers fre-

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Kenneth Cobonpue, Designer of the Year for Maison&Objet Asia 2014, wants to invent an alternative to the Western defnition of design.

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NI LED Parasol 350 by designer Terry Chow, displayed by Foxcat Design; Alur lamps by Ong Cen Kuang, representing the concept of broken symmetry; Fire Line Automatic 3, an innovative bioethanol fireplace from Planika Studio.

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quently turned to solutions that combine state-of-the-art techniques with traditional craftsmanship for a new, harmonious aesthetic. The environmentally conscious work of New Zealand–based furniture designer David Trubridge was just one example.

Representing a myriad of global cultures, the exhibitors in the Interior Decoration section defned their points of view and styles with spaces that conveyed a modern exoticism and told of far-off places. From stunning tableware and objets d’art to couture fragrance products that enhance the sensory environment, this section inspired new ways to look at contemporary living.

During Maison&Objet Asia, the fair partnered with Singapore Design Week to host a range of programs and events organized by the Singapore Design Council.

They were open not only to the design community, but also to students, entrepreneurs, and anyone concerned with design thinking and innovation. Many of the events took place at the National Design Center, resulting in a multifarious gathering of creative industries. Located in Singapore’s cultural district, Bras Basah.Bugis, the center became a vibrant nexus for the design community to exchange ideas and discuss projects.

After its successful debut in 2014, Maison&Objet Asia returned to the Marina Bay Sands Resort this past March for another well-attended, boundarypushing show, this time with a theme that summed up Maison&Objet’s global expansion with precision and poetry: Atmosphere. —e.c. n

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Maison&objet’s choice of MiaMi as the site of its first fair in the americas was a strategic one, given the city’s pivotal location, vital economy, and global reach in the fields of architecture, art, fashion, and design. the Miami show refects the company’s effort to extend its scope, showcasing international talents and brands by presenting fairs in the most dynamic design locales in the world, including—most recently and for the second time— singapore. With Maison&objet’s debut in Miami, all the major players in design in north and south america will come together for the frst time. after the plans for Miami were announced in 2013, Maison&objet’s expansion moved forward rapidly. the following year, it successfully launched the fair in asia and laid the groundwork for Miami with a series of networking events held in Los angeles, new York, são Paolo, and other cities. More than 300 exhibitors quickly agreed to take part in the show, which would debut in May 2015 at the Miami beach exhibition center.

Miami’s location is an enviable one, allowing this bilingual city to serve as a cultural and economic crossroads for two continents. over 14 million visitors a year are drawn by its climate, the cultural and natural attractions, and a welcoming ambience that makes investors and creatives alike feel at home. the city is a cradle for both business and art, and its importance to the global creative economy grows stronger and more defned each year. one example of Miami’s powerful infuence is the renowned international art fair art basel in Miami beach, which attracts artists, collectors, gallerists, curators, and art enthusiasts from all over the world. During the three-day 2014 edition, more than 73,000 visitors and 250 leading art galleries converged for this vibrant and agenda-setting event.

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An Ocean Drive skyscape reflects the city’s Art Deco heritage.

Home to one of the world’s best and largest collections of historic Art Deco buildings and some of the hemisphere’s top museums and cultural institutions—not to mention its alluring beaches and vibrant nightlife—Miami has much to offer visitors. The city’s architecture has long been distinctive, and Miami’s new landmarks are dazzling manifestations of 21st-century design genius. One magnificent example is Frank Gehry’s New World Center (500 17th St.; 305-673-3330). The concert hall, which debuted in 2011, was conceived as a laboratory for exploring how music is performed, experienced, and taught. The interior of the six-story structure, located in South Beach, is an amalgam of large, dramatic geometric forms—a Gehry signature; a glass façade and an open atrium are other defining features.

With a seating capacity of 756, it will be the site of the ceremony for Maison&Objet’s Rising Talents Americas and Designer of the Year awards, when the worlds of design, media, and real estate celebrate this important step in establishing an annual Maison&Objet Americas tradition.

Also helping to reshape Miami’s urban landscape are Herzog & de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize–winning architectural team who created 1111 Lincoln Road (1111lincolnroad.com) in South Beach in 2010. With a boundary-pushing design for an essentially utilitarian structure—a parking garage—the visionary building has been called “parking sculpture” and deemed a work of art by design critics. Jacques Herzog has said it’s their most radical work to date, and the garage continues to attract notice for its synthesis of art, culture, and commerce. In addition to parked cars, 1111 houses retail businesses, residences, an event space, and a pool and garden on the roof. Herzog & de Meuron also designed the Pérez Art Museum Miami, another directional structure mindful of the local environment, incorporating the outdoors in new and inventive ways. Other “starchitects” working in the commercial or residential realm (and sometimes both), such as Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, and Carlos Ott, are shaping the look of the new Miami and highlighting the city’s importance in the global design economy.

These groundbreaking structures offer a unique, stimulating setting for the best designers from North and South America and 24 countries in Europe and Asia as they gather for Maison&Objet Americas. For the prominent architects and designers, trendsetters, innovators, and experts in lifestyle retail who converge at the fair, Miami’s progressive urban landscape is the perfect backdrop for four days of excitement, festivities, and stimulating thought and conversation about the future of design.

From an economic perspective (and part of the reason that Maison&Objet chose the city), Miami represents a chance to tap two of the world’s largest free-trade zones. North and South America offer an extraordinary market:

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The United States, Canada, and Mexico produced $17 trillion worth of goods and services in 2010 under the North American Free Trade Agreement, while the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as the associate countries Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) accounts for 82.3 percent of South America’s gross domestic product. Mercosur is the most dynamic and competitive economic zone in the Southern Hemisphere and the fourth largest economic bloc in the world in terms of trade volume.

Municipal officials in Miami Beach are keen to help Maison&Objet Americas become one of the most successful trade fairs in the city’s history. On a recent visit to Maison&Objet Paris, Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, expressed his enthusiasm for the fair to Les Echos, a French economic newspaper. “I wanted to stop and talk at all the stands,” he said. “From the smallest to the largest, the mix of products is exciting. After this visit, I think that Miami Beach should build a convention center five times larger.”

Levine’s support for Maison&Objet Americas is so ardent, he arranged admission for the general public on the fair’s last day and made sure that Miami Design Week would be held concurrently. “Maison&Objet is a kind of Olympic Games for lifestyle in Europe,” he says. “We are America’s lifestyle Super Bowl.”

Over the past 20 years, Maison&Objet has earned a reputation for its ability to capture the spirit of modern design movements with a broad vision encompassing the best in lifestyle trends around the world. The show embodies excellence and innovation while staying true to its core mission, which is to provide creative industries in particular geographic and economic sectors with a new way of doing business and boost local economies. As the first major opportunity for the design spheres of North and South America to come together, to network, and to promote their practices to each other and countries around the world, Maison&Objet Americas will reinvent and reinvigorate this important and vital market segment locally and internationally.

All of the elements are in place for an exciting adventure—although it will be an incredibly challenging one.

But Maison&Objet is looking forward to that challenge with high expectations. The fair is sure to be a transformative event in the design world, as it creates a pan-American hub for business, art, and culture, brimming with creativity and enthusiasm for innovative design—all of it taking place in a city whose architectural ingenuity and daring continue to dazzle the world. Welcome to Miami, home of what’s bound to be the globe’s most celebrated new design fair, Maison&Objet Americas. —E.C. ■

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More than 300 brands and designers from around the world will exhibit at the debut of Maison&objet americas, running May 12 – 15 in Miami beach. here visitors will discover the exciting names reinventing interior décor, find innovative new products for every room of the home, and see the work of revolutionary talents propelling design into the future.

Niba Home | USA Niba Home’s Mozambique table (in Lucite), designed by Nisi Berryman. below: The Curved Cabinet, part of the Frame Collection, designed by Luis Pons for Niba Home. The console has metallic and stained decorative moldings, brass legs, and a black lacquer top.

niba home opened in the heart of Miami’s design district in 2004 and immediately gained attention for its forward-thinking collection of art, objects, and furnishings. owner nisi berryman, well known for her spot-on taste in curating accessories and furnishings for an international clientele, showcases items from a large group of american designers whose pieces are made in the Usa. Check out the new images by Greg Lotus (greglotus.com), a photographer published in Vogue Italia and other top european magazines, and exclusive craft-driven work from the transformative design practice of Miami-based architect and interior designer Luis Pons (luisponsdlab.com), renowned for distinctive environments that often place familiar objects in new contexts. 39 NE 39th St., Miami, FL, 305-573-1939; nibahome.com

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Voutsa founder George Venson is obsessed with pattern and wants to push wallpaper into “fresh new territory.”

clockwise from above: Voutsa’s Ballets Russes lamp shade in yellow; George Venson, who founded Voutsa last year; Voutsa’s Lionfish, a hand-painted wallpapered lamp shade.

Weplight | ArgentinA Designers Marcelo Dabini and Nadia Corsaro founded Weplight in 2001 and revolutionized the way we think about lighting fxtures. They developed a flexible wood veneer that allows them to 48 MAiSon-objet.CoM

create new lighting forms with curved and floral lines, which they have used in a collection of elegant pendant, table, and floor lamps. In addition to their innovative design, Weplight’s pieces are noted for their fine craftsmanship. They can be ordered in custom materials and sizes. weplight.com

Corinne Campenio | CAnAdA Corinne Campenio’s furniture and objects bring neoclassical style into the 21st century with sleek designs and vivid prints. All her pieces are handmade in Montreal at a workshop with more than half a century of artisanal experience. Campenio offers seasonal collections, along with a wide variety of customization. corinnecampenio.com

polart | MexiCo POLaRT reinvents the past, giving classic Baroque-style furniture new vibrancy with modern color combinations. The highly customizable

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Voutsa | USA Voutsa, established only last year, specializes in hand-painted wallpaper, a decorating element that founder George Venson wants to push into “fresh new territory.” Each installation is oneof-a-kind—there are no repeats, no printers, no outsourcing, according to the company. Voutsa also carries a line of printed wallpaper and offers collections of custom decorative objects, including lamp shades, screens, and rugs, and wearable items, such as robes, scarves, and shirts. Its snake trays, created in collaboration with weR2 Dream Machine, debuted at Art Basel in Miami Beach last December. 24 Rutgers St., New York, NY, 646-258-9650; voutsa.com

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Britto Charette founders David Charette and Jay Britto. The designers, who have studios in Wynwood and New York, are launching a new line of luxury furnishings and Wasi porcelain at the fair. above: The Blue Kinsa

by Britto Charette, a contemporary handcrafted porcelain artifact, sculpted by Peruvian artisans. below: A sculptural console created by Britto Charette.

La Lampe | Brazil Founded in 1985, La Lampe helped pioneer the integration of lighting and architecture. It fashions design solutions and masterminds them from concept to installation. La Lampe likes to design items that create dreamlike environments rather than function solely as objects of décor. Thanks to the poetic and witty perspective of Studio Nada Se Leva designers André Bastos and Guilherme Leite Ribeiro, curators of the collection, the brand remains modern and fresh. Also contributing bold work are designers like Nika Zupanc from Slovenia, Mathias Hahn from Germany, and Italian master Vico Magistretti. Recently La Lampe pledged to showcase Brazilian talent, while it continues to forge partnerships with such international companies as Fontana Arte, Cassina Lighting, Artemide, and Vertigo Bird. lalampe.com

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Te fair will showcase everything from futuristic lighting and 21st-century interpretations of classic furniture forms to the latest products for the scented environment.

VallVÉ | Brazil Founded by Catalan artist Jose Vallvé in 1962, this innovative company, a pioneer in the development of resin products, creates modern luxury items for the bathroom. From bathtubs and basins to fittings and furniture, Vallvé offers pieces in a wide range of colors and fnishes. The company is know for special customer services and affordable prices—a combination that has earned it a loyal following of international clients and brands, like the Hotel Unique in São Paolo, among many others. valve.com.br

Warp & Weft | USa Warp & Weft, founded in 2001 by Michael Mandapati, offers a superb, high-end collection of antique and modern rugs. Its approach to design focuses on how the overall look of a space evolves from the core or matrix provided by the rug, a foundation that binds and structures the details of a room’s décor into a unified whole.

The company’s goal is to realize the full potential of every space, however simple or complex, by finding the most beautiful rug with the right mix of form, color, and texture. 979 Third Ave., New York, NY, 212-5460944; warpandweft.com

ayres | USa The aromatherapy body-care line Ayres was founded by luxury-perfume executive Alejandro Rasic, who left corporate life to develop his own beauty products. An all-natural body-care collection infused with pure essential oils, Ayres, while made in the US, is inspired

by Buenos Aires, a place celebrated for its European sophistication, Latin sensibility, and natural beauty. The brand takes its name from the city’s traditional Spanish spelling, Buenos Ayres. 1800 SW First Ave., Ste. 303, Miami, FL, 866-228-0285; ayresbeauty.com

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and craftsmen to produce original lighting fixtures, all manufactured in the United States. Utilizing handcrafted metal, hand-blown glass, and other materials, Fine Art Lamps creates ceiling and wall fixtures, floor and table lamps, and lighting for outdoor spaces. 5772 Miami Lakes Dr. E, Miami Lakes, FL, 305-821-3850; fineartlamps.com

roberta schilling | USa Roberta Schilling was born into a family of designers and grew up in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, a region noted for its colonial architecture. She was only 24 years old when she founded her company in 1995 with the goal of bringing high-end, hand-painted Brazilian furniture to the US. It is now one of the leading distributors of Brazilian furniture and has expanded to include decorative accessories, glassware, natural-fiber textiles, and Brazilian colonial antiques. In 2006, Schilling introduced a line of modern furniture and has tapped numerous Brazilian artists and artisans to add their one-of-a-kind contemporary pieces to her collections. 10993 NW 122nd St., Miami, FL, 305-477-7786; rscollection.com

authentic proVence | USa Susan Hofherr and her husband, art historian Wolfgang Hofherr, founded their company in West Palm Beach in the late 1990s, and their historical expertise has contributed to the design of many lavish gardens in Florida and around the world. Authentic Provence’s exquisite collection of garden antiques includes planters, lanterns, fountains, urns, and ornaments from France, Italy, and England. The company’s garden objects can be created to specifcation in a variety of colors, fnishes, and heights.

3735 South Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, FL, 561-8059995; authenticprovence.com

french studio imports | USa Launched in 1995, French Studio Imports brings the best European home gift items to the US. It focuses on exclusive niche brands that draw upon the history

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Craft and the artisanal process inform the work of many exhibitors, whether they are from the Americas, Europe, or Asia.

and culture of Italy, France, and other countries for their concepts. The portfolio includes Lalique Voyage de Parfumeur, a candle line; Pozzo di Borgo perfumes; Gilles Dewavrin fragrance; and Culti Milano, noted for its home fragrance and spa items, among other lines. 1440 N. Kingsbury St., Chicago, IL, 312-642-1300; frenchstudioimports.com

Pacific connections | USA Pacific Connections, a San Francisco–based brand established in 1994, specializes in high-quality lacquered items, including frames, vases, serving trays, lamps, and side tables. The company has its own production facility and can fashion custom products for clients worldwide. 220 Newhall St., San Francisco, CA, 415-285-2873; pacifcconnectionsusa.com

Belle fleur new York | USA Meredith Waga and her husband, Tony Perez, are the masterminds behind the award-winning fragrance house Belle Fleur New York, which produces luxury scents, described as “haute parfumerie for the home.”

The company designs lavish sensory experiences that represent new ways to imagine fragrance and to experience the transformative power of fragrance in interior spaces. In addition to scented candles, room sprays, diffusers, and bath and body products, Belle Fleur creates limited-edition fragrance lines themed to the seasons. 134 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, 212254-8703; bellefeurny.com

Dunes anD Duchess | USA Photographer Michael Partenio and stylist Stacy Kunstel operate Dunes and Duchess, which crafts furniture as well as colorful and romantic lighting fixtures, including lamps, sconces, and candelabra.

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offers a variety of colors and fnishes (customization, too) that can generate looks ranging from traditional to Midcentury Modern to contemporary. dunesand duchess.com

foleY&cox | USA The clientele of the New York interior design studio Foley&Cox, headed by Mary Foley and Michael Cox, stretches from Manhattan to Monaco and beyond. The company specializes in creating luxury spaces for homes, yachts, and private jets, employing some of the best craftsmen and artisans in the world.

Foley&Cox Home is its first venture into retail, and the offerings are diverse: custom furniture, lighting, and textiles designed with the same eye for sophisticated detail that defines the designers’ interiors.

135 W. 29th St., New York, NY, 212-529-5800; foley andcox.com

Jason Mizrahi | USA At his studio in California, Jason Mizrahi uses innovative design techniques that alter the perception of what furniture can and should be. Mizrahi also looks to the world of sculpture to inform his work; the chairs, sofas, tables, and other items he creates are often regarded as fine art. His latest line is the Contemporary Collection from Jason Mizrahi Designs, USA. 22515 Peale Dr., Calabasas, CA, 818326-0382; jasonmizrahi.com n

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The Aline lamp, with a violet crystal and silver bronze base, from Baldi Home Jewels. All of the brand’s pieces are handmade in Florence, Italy.

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Designing for the future Zanini de Zanine, renowned for innovative furniture refecting the culture of reuse in his native Brazil, is Maison&Objet Americas’ frst Designer of the Year.

Maison&objet aMericas has chosen brazilian designer Zanini de Zanine as its first Designer of the Year. an extraordinary talent, Zanine represents the dynamic innovation and cultural relevance that define Maison&objet. the choice of a Designer of the Year is integral to the fair, whether in Paris or singapore, and Zanine’s selection is an essential step in inaugurating the debut show in Miami beach. in choosing designers for this prestigious honor, Maison&objet looks for those with an unwavering commitment to forward-thinking design, as evidenced by the exceptional body of work of the award’s past winners, including such design stars as Karl Lagerfeld, Philippe starck, tom Dixon, architect jean nouvel, and Philippine industrial designer Kenneth cobonpue.

Zanini de Zanine, born in rio de janeiro in 1978, showed an interest in design from his earliest years: Family legend has it that he started working with wood before he could walk. the son of celebrated designer and architect josé Zanine caldas, who collaborated notably with oscar niemeyer, a key fgure in the development of modernist architecture, Zanine grew up in a highly creative environment where he was exposed to leading thinkers not only in architecture, but in art, design, and sculpture as well.

He trained with sergio rodrigues, a pioneering brazilian industrial designer, with whom he produced his first piece. says rodrigues of his former student, “Zanininho, as i call him, served as an apprentice but collaborated with me like a veteran designer in my studio.”

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A sketch by Zanine for his Gioco rocking horse (2009), a sculptural interpretation of the classic child’s toy. These “chair ponies” (below) were produced in methacrylate.

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Zanine earned a degree in industrial design from Pontifíca Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro in 2002. A year later he opened his own atelier, producing furniture and sculpture from reclaimed materials, including fne exotic hardwoods that he painstakingly salvaged, some from his father’s building projects. “One aspect of my work is the subversive reuse of objects and materials,” Zanine says. “Brazil’s large indigent population has learned to improvise and recycle in fantastic ways, and I try to portray their efforts with integrity.”

Since 2005, Zanine has been working on a new assortment of industrial furniture made from sustainably sourced wood. He has also created pieces from such diverse materials as plastic, methacrylate, and metal. “I experiment with new technologies, such as injection materials, all the while looking for rich textures and colors that excite me,” he says. “I’m drawn to the counterpoint of craft and industrial, which balance and complement each other.”

When he founded Studio Zanini in 2011, Zanine merged a design studio with a research laboratory and a showroom, allowing him to develop projects holistically, overseeing their development from conception to production and distribution.

Zanine has previously been honored with distinguished prizes from countries around the world, including the IF Design Award and Brazil’s IDEA/Brasil. His work has been showcased in books, magazines, newspapers, and trade journals, as well as in exhibitions of Brazilian design both in his native country and abroad. Zanine’s many collaborators include major design names like Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Slamp, and Tolix. His pieces

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Zanine’s Inflated Wood chair for Cappellini (2013), part of a limitededition series, and one of his sketches for its design.

have been shown in cultural institutions, such as New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, and he participated in the most recent Salone del Mobile in Milano.

Maison&Objet sat down with Zanine to discuss his design aesthetic, fast-track career, and latest accolade.

Give us your thoughts on having been chosen as the frst Maison&Objet Americas Designer of the Year.

It is a great delight for me to show and share a little more of Brazilian culture to the world. An important event like Maison&Objet is a great honor for a designer.

How does your native country, and particularly Rio, infuence your design?

I have the chance to travel a lot in my country, which is so large. Brazil is full of unique features because of the great mixture of races and also because of the great diversity in nature—particularly in Rio, where I was born and where I live. It is a very easygoing town, and nature offers up a vast amount of inspiration.

What impact has the reuse of materials had on your work?

My father, José Zanine Caldas, was a great architect and Brazilian designer who always based his work on the reuse of materials, so I grew up

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with this concept and applied it to my own projects. All across the country, we fnd the culture of reuse, not only because of the environment but also because of the poverty. It is a recurrent theme in Brazilian life.

What do you think about Miami, and in particular Maison&Objet’s strategy to integrate the design worlds of the Americas?

I think M&O Americas is a great place to show that Miami can be the capital of design, and the city itself offers a perfect mix for the arts and design, so it is an excellent partner for a show like Maison&Objet.

Your work has been exhibited, showcased, written about—from the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne to the Salone del Mobile in Milano. What are some of your future projects?

We have some very interesting projects at the moment. The interior design of hotels, spaces for theaters, larger buildings—the scope of the studio is growing rapidly.

Any advice for young designers and/or refections on design education?

My father always told me to place high value on my own culture, as well as to learn to interpret and then vehicle it through my work—to move beyond your own comfort zone and status quo. —E.C. n

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The Rising TalenTs secTion of Maison&objet has always epitomized the fair’s special esprit. Beginning at Maison&objet Paris and continuing at the show in singapore, the section illuminates the distinctive philosophies and bold artistry of top young designers working today. each rising talent is selected by the M&o team from its global design network, and collectively these names offer an intriguing glimpse into the future of design. in Miami Beach, expect the forward-looking work on display in this sector to infuence and perhaps alter the world of design for years to come.

Past M&o rising talents have included such design stars as the Bouroullec brothers, the furniture and industrial designers whose work is now part of major museum collections, and newcomers with aboutto-skyrocket careers, like Ferréol Babin, a French designer winning acclaim for his bold, sculptural lighting.

During Maison&objet asia in singapore, Rising asian Talents brought together promising young creatives from indonesia, Thailand, hong Kong, the Philippines, and other parts of the region. With Maison&objet’s foresight and track record for spotting new talent, it’s only natural that the design world will look closely at the group of innovative designers from the Western hemisphere’s two continents who have been chosen for the frst fair in Miami. on the following pages, we highlight Maison&objet americas’ Rising Talents.

KINETIC EXPERIMENTATION: RAMÓN LASERNA (COLOMBIA) since studying in Bogota, Ramón laserna has attempted to fuse the disciplines of design, photography, and kinetics in his work. he often experiments with urban fragments and optical illusion, using line, shape, and color to produce designs that lean toward the abstract. While working with alexandra larsen, he focused his energies on local craftsmanship for a project they called &laR, an initiative involving woven furniture that won an award for the best colombian design of 2014 from the magazine Revista Axxis.

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Laserna uses line, shape, and color to produce designs that lean toward the abstract.

Ram贸n Laserna likes to experiment with geometric form, optical illusion, and color. His woven chairs (above and left) won an award for best Colombian design from Revista Axxis in 2014.

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LIGHTING THE WAY: MAX GUNAWAN / LUMIO (US) Based in San Francisco, Max Gunawan, who was born in Jakarta, spent 10 years as an architect before creating Lumio, a studio dedicated to multifunctional everyday objects. Lumio’s mission, a particularly timely one for contemporary society, is to help people “live more with less.” Gunawan’s modern lighting systems employ minimal, clean-lined design while optimizing the smallest of spaces. Entrepreneur magazine named Lumio one of the “Top 10 Most Innovative Crowdfunded Companies” in 2013. Gunawan’s work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he recently spoke about his inventive designs at a TEDx conference. hellolumio.com 66 maison-objet.com

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MINIMALIST CRAFTSMANSHIP: CASEY LURIE (US) In 2012, Casey Lurie established his eponymous studio in Chicago after spending three years in Tokyo as designerin-residence for Idée, the leading furniture manufacturer in Japan. Lurie celebrates the techniques of artisanal woodwork, often employing methods that have Japanese origins. He combines traditional crafts and innovative processes to produce collections that range from furniture to lighting. Combining a rigorous attention to detail with multidisciplinary innovation and collaborative projects, Lurie does not create solely in the studio; he also shares his practice with his students at the Art Institute of Chicago. 312-804-2964; caseylurie.com

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Chicago-based designer Casey Lurie, who worked for a leading furniture manufacturer in Japan, employs both traditional craft and innovative techniques to produce everything from furniture, like this walnut step stool, to lighting.

Lumio’s mission, a particularly timely one for contemporary society, is to help people “live more with less.”

Lumio, a firm specializing in multifunctional and efficiently sized products, was founded by Max Gunawan, a San Francisco– based designer.

His innovative LED book lamp (above and left) folds out of a wood-bound book. A lithiumion battery provides up to eight hours of light.

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David Pompa’s Exqui candelabrum in copper blends classic design with contemporary Mexican touches.

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A FUTURIST ETHOS: LUKAS PEET (CANADA) A graduate of the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Canadian Lukas Peet, based in Vancouver, moves seamlessly between creating furniture, lighting, and decorative and industrial objects, as well as designing graphics and public spaces. He draws inspiration from various parts of the world and is strongly committed to and infuenced by the integration of natural materials with modernist form. His pieces have been acclaimed as “future classics” by design critics. Peet has referred to his creative process as “refning a ‘Canadian’ aesthetic,” one infuenced by the time he spent in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe. Through material, technique, and form, and by asking probing questions about design, he has created a universe uniquely his own. Lukas Peet’s designs for Roll & Hill are available at Poliform USA, 4100 NE Second Ave., No. 101, Miami, 305-573-9950; lukaspeet.com

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NEW VISIONS: STUDIO DAVID POMPA (MEXICO) David Pompa’s work, renowned for its clean-lined elegance, blends contemporary design with traditional Mexican craftsmanship. His interdisciplinary studios are in Mexico and Austria, the countries where he grew up and that greatly infuence his pieces; Pompa also studied product design in London. His goal is to rethink Mexican artistry and reinvent it by combining traditional materials with new techniques and implementing ideas that allow him to move beyond existing boundaries in design and culture. His work also includes creating brand identities for businesses in a wide range of felds, among them multimedia, transportation, and fashion. davidpompa.com

Peet’s pieces have been acclaimed as “future classics” by design critics.

Lukas Peet’s Button 90 (2013), an LED pendant light, is suspended by nylon rope, allowing the fixture to be tilted to change the light’s direction.

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MATERIAL REWARDS: CRISTÍAN MOHADED (ARGENTINA) Buenos Aires–based designer Cristían Mohaded grew up in the Argentine countryside before studying at the National University of Cordoba. Moving between product and interior design, he lets his passion for materials lead to research into new shapes and forms. Recycled leather and plywood is just one of the material combinations that he has developed for a variety of objects. Whether for projects or exhibits at cultural institutions such as MALBA or galleries like S. Bensimon in Paris, Mohaded is well-known for his skill at mixing design storytelling with industrial processes. cristianmohaded.com.ar

THE TRANSFORMER: LEO CAPOTE (BRAZIL) Having grown up surrounded by the items in his family’s hardware store in São Paolo, Leo Capote introduces the tools of DIY proponents in his products and spaces. For this designer, everything is raw material, and the most banal objects, like screws, nails, or hammers, are transformed by his vision into something entirely new. Capote also revisits design classics like the Saarinen and Panton chairs, interpreting them in unexpected materials—for example, by constructing the Panton from carbon steel bolts. These pieces become part of special limited editions, which have been picked up by the high-end Paulista design gallery Firma Casa. His assemblages, in which objects and materials are placed in new contexts with surprising textures, exemplify the designer’s probing exploration of design as art. Baronesa de Itú, 42 Sta. Cecilia, São Paulo, SP; 0055 11 23387736; leocapote.com n 70 maison-objet.com

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Circus lamp by Cristían Mohaded, crafted in iron and textured glass.

For Capote, everything is raw material, and the most banal objects are transformed by his vision into something entirely new.

above: Banco Machado, made with recycled wood by Leo Capote. left: Capote’s interpretation of the Panton chair, made with carbon steel bolts.

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From the Gilded Age to the current starchitect era, Miami has known how to dazzle. In recent years the city has become an important hub for contemporary art, design, and architecture, a place where the sensibilities of two continents merge for a vibrant 21st-century aesthetic. As a crossroads metropolis at the frontier of design, Miami provides the perfect backdrop for the f rst Maison&Objet Americas fair. In this section you’ll f nd out more about the city and its culture.

THE MAGIC OF MIAMI

A history of the pioneers who transformed the skyscape.

DESIGNS ON MIAMI

What’s happening in the Design District during M&O Americas.

IN THE MUSEUMS

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Top Miami museum exhibits during M&O Americas.

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Te Magic of Miami How a rich architectural legacy helped make the city a center for art and design. by tom austin

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The skycourt at 1983 Atlantic; 1111 Lincoln Road; the Fly’s Eye Dome in the Palm Court. middle row from left :

Faena Forum; the lifeguard station at the Raleigh Hotel swimming pool; an architectural detail of the Fontainebleau Hotel. bottom row from left : The Biltmore Hotel; Pérez Art Museum Miami’s hanging gardens; Park Central Hotel, an example of South Beach’s Art Deco style.

In 1891, JulIa TuTTle, Miami’s first real estate developer, bought 600 acres of raw land in what would eventually become the core of downtown Miami. She knew the area needed the boost that a major piece of architecture would provide, and fve years later Tuttle enticed Henry Flagler, the railroad tycoon and hotelier, to bring his Florida east Coast Railway south from Palm Beach and build the Royal Palm Hotel, a Gilded age wonder.

In the late 19th century, Miami was still new, a city without the burdens of the past and free from the social self-consciousness of its neighbor to the north, Palm Beach. It was the ideal destination for rich pioneers with an adventurous and playful spirit. In that era, other american cities were already developing the problems of urban living, but Miami was inspired by the paradisiacal nature of the tropics and remained a haven for pleasure. Most of its wealthy residents were exiles from more sober american cities; both Tuttle and Flagler, for instance, had come from Cleveland.

From the beginning, Miami was defned by

the exoticism of endless sunshine, Biscayne Bay, the ocean, and the everglades. Its leaders did not believe in living modestly, and they refected Miami’s natural world in equally extravagant architecture and design.

The city’s wealthy residents wanted their architectural spectacles to be seen and admired (as they cast a covetous eye on the wonders built by their neighbors). This Gilded age sensibility is ingrained in Miami’s architectural Dna, as seen in Morris lapidus’s Fontainebleau Hotel, built in the 1950s, and the “starchitecture” of today.

One of Miami’s early moneyed visitors, James Deering, co-owner of the International Harvester Corporation, decided to build his own playhouse for plutocrats, the circa 1916 Villa Vizcaya. The 70-room palace on 180 acres, still Miami’s most beautiful estate, was the frst Mediterranean revival mansion in South Florida, an architectural style that would become the rage in the building boom of the 1920s.

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The grandeur of Vizcaya had a profound infuence on Miami in the ’20s. Merrick hired Phineas Paist, who had worked on Vizcaya, as his architectural director and created a series of international villages in a range of styles, including Chinese and Dutch South African, and they’re still the best part of Coral Gables.

The villages have all the whimsy and elaborate detail of Vizcaya, as did most large private homes in Coral Gables and Miami Beach at that time. Both Merrick and Fisher also had a flair for promotion, which included having gondolas with gondoliers ply a canal.

It was possible to take a gondola from the Biltmore to Biscayne Bay, a surefre sales gimmick.

The 1930s and much of the 1940s belonged to Art Deco, mostly concentrated in South Beach. The Mediterranean revival style evoked a kind of old-world luxury that was out of sync with the Great Depression, while the South Beach version of Art Deco was new, cheap, fun, and as bright and modern as the escapist movie musicals of the era. During these decades, architects mixed the thoroughly decorative style of 1920s European Art Deco with the streamlined version of American industrial designers. Curved wraparound windows, portholes, and central vertical elements, such as spires, lent a sense of motion. Stucco friezes embraced the tropical setting with images of starfsh and the like. Some of the better efforts, such as 1940’s Raleigh hotel (designed by Lawrence Murray Dixon

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The annex of the Bacardi building, adorned with multicolored stained glass and known as the “Jewel Box,” was designed in 1974 by Ignacio Cabrera-Justiz to expand the Bacardi Rum Company’s headquarters.

Historic Italian villas, passed from generation to generation, often incorporate wildly diverse architectural styles, so to make Vizcaya look authentic, Chalfin included nods to the Renaissance, Baroque, rococo, and neoclassical periods. He even built a working replica of a 16th-century Italian farm village, the kind an Italian nobleman would have surrounding his estate.

Vizcaya was a sort of theme park for the rich, with star guests like actress Lillian Gish and painter John Singer Sargent, but it also features practical details. The rooms, for example, open onto a central courtyard, allowing for cross-ventilation.

In Miami, the 1920s were truly roaring, and the city was dominated by two visionary developers, Miami Beach’s Carl Fisher and Coral Gables’ George Merrick. Both favored the Mediterranean revival style, and both employed one of the leading architectural frms of the day, Schultze & Weaver, the New York– based company that reinvented Los Angeles with the 1923 Biltmore Hotel. The architects put their mark on the Miami area with several iconic properties, including a Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables (still the city’s centerpiece) and the since-demolished hotel Roney Plaza, which helped defne the look of Miami Beach during the period. Each property included a replica of Seville’s Giralda Tower. Even when Schultze & Weaver designed a downtown Miami offce building (still standing), it included a replica Giralda Tower.

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From the beginning, Miami was defned by the exoticism of the natural world, which was refected in its architecture and design.

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Te 1950s saw the rise of American high rollers and the reinvention of Miami Beach by architect Morris Lapidus, who thought of his work as the “architecture of joy.”

The Bleau Bar at the Fontainebleau Hotel, a landmark structure in the evolution of Miami architectural design.

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and now owned by Tommy Hilfger), remain delights of South Beach. Its ship smokestack – inspired pool house once made the perfect backdrop for the aquatic spectacles of Esther Williams.

After World War II, the 1950s saw the rise of American high rollers and the reinvention of Miami Beach by architect Morris Lapidus, a former store designer. In that era, the International Style—seen in such celebrated landmarks as Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye—embodied polite good taste. When the great Le Corbusier visited Miami in 1950, he toured the city’s more exuberant buildings and wrote in his journal, “Enough to make one utterly sick from so much artifce.”

But Lapidus, who thought of his work as the “architecture of joy,” was all about piling on artifce. The 1954 Fontainebleau still has a “staircase to nowhere,” intended to add a bit of spectacle to the lobby. The hotel

debuted with French statuary scattered about the lobby and grounds; original owner Ben Novack wanted what he called a “modern French chateau” look. Next door, Lapidus’s Eden Roc hotel is topped by an artful rendition of a ship’s smokestack, a nod to Art Deco. Lapidus jumbled architecture’s historical periods and added dollops of ornamentation, irregular shapes, and whatever else struck his fancy. The Fontainebleau also inspired the design of Las Vegas’s themed pleasure palaces.

In the 1960s, America’s Mad Men era, architecture and design refected corporate power. Seagram, for instance, hired Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to create its headquarters in New York. At Bacardi in 1962, Jose “Pepin” Bosch brought in Mies to create a severe building for the company in Mexico City, but he lightened up in Miami, where he and Bacardi fed after the rise of Fidel Castro.

Here, Bosch worked with Cuban modernist architect Enrique Gutierrez, who had helped design a planned Mies building for Bacardi in Cuba. Miami’s Bacardi building is not concerned with strict Miesian purity. Muralist Francisco Brennand created traditional Brazilian murals on the entire north and south walls of the 1964 building, a shimmering expanse of tropical imagery in blue and white tile that looks as if it can’t wait to pop off the surface.

The 1970s were a quiet era in Miami, a period when the city still felt like a sleepy Southern town, but Bacardi added to the brilliance of its Miami building with an ambitious annex. The 1973 Ignacio Carrera-Justiz structure is wrapped in glass murals by Johannes Dietz depicting the history of rum production. (The Bacardi complex is now owned by the National YoungArts Foundation, a charitable organization that helps aspiring artists, which recently commissioned Frank Gehry to create an adjacent arts center.)

In the 1980s, the skyline of downtown Miami ceased to be a modest, less-is-more affair and embraced tropical modernism. Miami Tower, an I.M. Pei masterpiece immortalized in the opening credits of Miami Vice, is still lit at night in bright colors, as alluring as a frefy. The former Southeast Bank brought in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for its corporate headquarters. Now the Southeast Financial Center, the building still has a Miami touch, with rows of royal palms planted in the glass-covered atrium.

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A Ron English mural at Wynwood Walls, an outdoor museum. In the past few years, graffiti—curated and not—has helped transform the Wynwood neighborhood.

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The precise interiors of the original Southeast Bank structure were designed by Florence Knoll Bassett, a Miami resident who studied with Mies and went on to an extraordinary career. Bassett’s frst husband was Hans Knoll, of the pioneering furniture company that specialized in landmark pieces like Mies’s Brno chairs and helped to popularize modernism. After he was killed in a car accident in Havana, Bassett took charge of the company. The original Southeast Bank building was pure Knoll, a sophisticated blend of classic Knoll furniture, such as Eero Saarinen marble tables, and personal touches like Bassett’s custom-designed sofas.

For sheer elegance and design intelligence, no Miami offce interior has ever matched it.

Visually, Miami in the 1980s was defined by restored and historically protected Art Deco buildings that became part of countless South Beach fashion shoots and episodes of Miami Vice, as well as the early work of the frm Arquitectonica.

On Brickell Avenue, just south of downtown Miami, is its most acclaimed structure, 1983’s Atlantis, a condominium building with a “skycourt,” a square hole on the 12th foor with a Jacuzzi and a lone palm tree. The Atlantis is pure tropical modernism and never stops being fun. The skycourt wound up on the cover of T.D. Allman’s book Miami: City of the Future and in a scene in the 1983 Brian De Palma film Scarface.

The 1990s were about protecting the past—the Biltmore was restored and even more of South Beach’s Art Deco gems were renovated—and forging the design and architecture of the future. Craig Robins, one of South Beach’s pioneers, began to buy property in the Design District. With stores like Poltrona Frau and Valentino, the district has become a mainstay of the international art fair Art Basel in Miami Beach as well as Design Miami/, a show that takes place during Art Basel. The Design District is also home to an array of architectural installations. In 2007, Marc Newson, a former Designer of the Year at Design Miami/, unveiled the DASH Fence, a 100-foot-long metal fence inspired by waves and the poetic possibilities of design, at the Design & Architecture Senior High.

Wynwood, a formerly hardscrabble area south of the Design District, also benefted from a South Beach pioneer, the late Tony Goldman. In 2009, Goldman launched Wynwood Walls, an outdoor museum featuring graffiti murals by such artists as Barry McGee and Kenny Scharf.

In the past few years, graffti—curated and not—has helped transform the neighborhood, with new condo buildings breaking ground and sophisticated operations like the shop/café Made in Italy opening.

Miami’s starchitect era began in 2010 with Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road, a public/ private project that salutes Morris Lapidus—the original designer of Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road—while embracing the conspicuous consumption of the area’s first

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Wynwood, a formerly hardscrabble area south of the Design District, also benefted from a South Beach pioneer, the late Tony Goldman, who launched Wynwood Walls.

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Zaha Hadid’s sinewy 1000 Museum, a residential tower, overlooks Museum Park.

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wealthy settlers. The parking levels, which are also used for parties, are entirely open, with the jutting overhangs aesthetically charged by Lapidus’s origamilike concrete canopies on Lincoln Road. At night, 1111 Lincoln, lit up like the Reichstag, is stunning in a precise, hard-edged Swiss way. It’s a building that Herzog has described as “muscles without cloth.”

Miami is suffused with light and water, and Herzog & de Meuron’s second project in the city, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, makes use of those natural advantages. Situated on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami, PAMM—which was inspired by Stiltsville, a collection of atmospheric shacks off the tip of Key Biscayne—features an enormous wraparound terrace, an outdoor space with the epic scope of Henry Flagler’s 1890s Royal Palm Hotel. PAMM anchors Museum Park, a complex along Biscayne Bay that will incorporate the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science (designed by Grimshaw Architects and

opening next year), with landscape design by James Corner Field Operations (responsible for the High Line project in Manhattan). Museum Park has fnally given Miami a great public meeting ground, a place to watch the city’s possibilities unfold. (Overlooking Museum Park, Zaha Hadid’s sinewy 1000 Museum should become the definitive downtown residential tower; Hadid even designed its sales center.)

In the last few years, the Design District has gone into overdrive. During Art Basel in Miami Beach 2014, the launch of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami was complemented by the debut of the Palm Court, a mixed-use building in the district and an important architectural moment for the city, a creation that speaks to Miami’s singular environment. For the façade, prominent Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto employed a series of glass fins to create a waterfall effect, intended to echo Miami’s tropical rainstorms.

A ground-foor installation, Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome, one of the neo-futurist architect’s variations on his geodesic dome, completes the Palm Court design package.

Today in Miami Beach, just fve years after the opening of 1111 Lincoln, the starchitect era has exploded. At Faena Miami Beach, developed by Alan Faena, Norman Foster is creating a residential tower, while Rem Koolhaas/OMA is designing a hotel and arts center. Up Collins Avenue, Terra Group has hired Renzo Piano to design a residential tower. At the Surf Club, Richard Meier is lending his talents to a condominium and hotel.

Eight winners of the Pritzker Prize—architecture’s highest honor—have either completed or are working on projects in Miami. So it makes sense that this year’s Pritzker ceremony will be held on May 15 at Miami Beach’s New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry for the New World Symphony. Maison&Objet Americas’ Designer of the Year awards ceremony will also take place here, on May 13.

Good design begins with a vision, and the visions of Miami’s founders—from Julia Tuttle to Carl Fisher—have been realized beyond measure. Miami, America’s most contemporary city, is remaking itself as an international center of modernity. n

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designs on miami Like the city itself, Miami’s Design District has become an international hotbed for architecture, design, and fashion. During the debut of Maison&Objet Americas, the district will host installations, exhibits, and other events showing how its special creative alchemy has made it a destination for visitors worldwide.

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would connect not only with the area’s largely forgotten history as a trade hub for furniture and design, but also with his vision of the neighborhood as a place for creative experimentation. top design firms like Kartell, luminaire, Knoll, Waterworks, and holly hunt were among the frst to open showrooms in the fedgling district. “in the late ’90s, miami seemed underserved and sleepy in all things interior design,” says hunt, whose name is synonymous with luxe furnishings.

“Craig robins came to see me with his very persuasive infuencing skill and big promises for the Design District’s future.” she was intrigued by the concept of a stand-alone ground-floor showroom that would also sell to designers, and the deal was sealed when robins showed hunt the space he had in mind for her: 22,000 square feet spread over three foors on ne second Avenue. “it offered far more independence in approach and interior architectural design,” adds hunt. “i was sold.”

As design showrooms moved into the district, robins also provided studio space to artists and commissioned public art, including installations by marc newson and Zaha hadid that refected the nascent confuence of fne art, industrial design, and architecture. the 2002 arrival of Art Basel in miami Beach was another milestone. those in town for the global art fair were drawn to the district by collaborative events, and

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Among the lAtest ArrivAls to miami’s Design District is a building that predates the city itself: a stone granary that stood for centuries in a village along spain’s Atlantic coast. the temple-like structure, which crossed the ocean to become the centerpiece of the frst loewe store in north America, is currently surrounded by handcrafted leather bowls in a special exhibit timed to coincide with the debut of maison&objet Americas. this mix of ancient and modern, fashion and design, culture and commerce is emblematic of the district’s ongoing transformation, and it’s just the beginning. the man behind the metamorphosis is real estate developer Craig robins. A miami native, he founded Dacra, a real estate company, in 1987 at the age of 24 and began amassing a portfolio of properties in miami Beach’s Art Deco District. “in the mid-1990s, once we’d made our way to lincoln road, i realized there was no room for expansion in south Beach, and i began buying property in the Design District,” says robins of the area roughly bounded by ne 36th street to the south, ne 43rd street to the north, nW First Avenue to the west, and Biscayne Boulevard to the east. “the neighborhood had been a fourishing area for shopping in the mid-20th century but had fallen into disrepair. i recognized that the historic architecture of the neighborhood had intrinsic beauty and value.”

From the start, robins combined renovation with curation, focusing on prospective tenants that

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The Design District’s City View Garage, a collaboration among Iwamoto Scott, Leong Leong, and John Baldessari; the massive mural Jungle (2014) by 2x4, a multiplatform studio working in the fields of art, architecture, and fashion; a detail of the City View Garage façade; Netscape, a 24-seat web of hanging chairs by German designer Konstanin Grcic; the DASH Fence, created by designer Marc Newson.

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Luxury storefronts in the Design District. Twenty new buildings are being constructed to house 50 additional brands.

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in 2005 many of them crossed the bay for the launch of Design Miami/, with that fair attracting another wave of showrooms and stores, sharpening the area’s identity: urban, authentic, sophisticated, and culturally engaged.

With new openings in the Design District nearly every week—Givenchy, Ermenegildo Zegna, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, and Versace have recently joined marquee names like Louis Vuitton, Hermès, and Cartier—and construction beginning on 20 new buildings to house another 50 brands, Robins and his partners are determined to cement the neighborhood’s status as “the most comprehensive collection of luxury fashion and jewelry in South Florida” without losing the creative spirit on which the district was built.

Which makes the arrival of Maison&Objet— renowned for showcasing the best in global design while fostering its evolution in bold new directions— particularly timely. “In the past decade, Miami has firmly established itself on the international design radar,” says Robins. “The arrival of Maison&Objet in Miami is further testament to the city’s transformation into a laboratory for cutting-edge design.”

Among the showrooms rolling out the red carpet (literally) for Maison&Objet is The Rug Company, which opened its Design District space six

years ago in the Moore Building. “Miami has increasingly become an important design city,” says cofounder and CEO Christopher Sharp. “Being part of this exciting community is essential.” In a special exhibit, the London-based brand will display its hand-knotted collaborations with fashion designers like Paul Smith, Alexander McQueen, and Rodarte. As for M&O’s expansion to Miami Beach, Sharp is optimistic: “It’s a good plan. Americans love all things Parisian, so it’ll be un succès fabuleux.”

Other not-to-be-missed showroom events during the fair include Luminaire Lab’s installation by designer Omer Arbel, creative director of Bocci, who will also be on hand for the debut of a Bocci lighting collection that unites fabric and glass. Artisanal craftsmanship meets ironwork at Holly Hunt, as the company will introduce new furniture designs from Pouenat, founded in 1880 in Moulins, France.

For Susane Ronai, whose Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique has been a fixture of the district for more than 20 years, the international trade fair offers an opportunity to show visitors how this design and fashion hub continues to evolve. She sees the Design District and Maison&Objet as “a perfect match of taste, culture, and design.” During the fair, Ronai will demonstrate the

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artisanal creation of a luxe chair for her collection, taking it from handmade frame to upholstered final product.

Newcomers to the district share Ronai’s enthusiasm. “Lladró has had a long history with Maison&Objet, having [exhibited] at the Paris show for many years,” says Brent McDaneld, CEO of the Spanish porcelain company’s US division. He sees the fair’s debut in the Americas as a way to continue the momentum of Art Basel in Miami Beach—and a perfect occasion to celebrate the opening of Lladró’s store in the Design District. “Miami is gaining more and more recognition as an art and design world reference, and Lladró wants to be part of this,” McDaneld adds. “It’s also the window to South America in the US, where our brand is very much appreciated.”

The deep connections between Miami and South America will be the topic of a panel discussion at the fair, hosted by the Brazilian interiors brand Ornare (SEE SIDEBAR). Bringing together local luxury developers, renowned Brazilian product and interior designers, and real estate professionals, the event will also celebrate Maison&Objet Designer of the Year Zanini de Zanine, who is based in Rio de Janeiro.

For Greg Frehling, owner of Oggetti Designs, the decision to introduce Maison&Objet here is like granting Miami a stamp of approval. “It shows that the city is

being taken seriously in the design world,” he says, hopeful that the fair will draw first-time visitors as well as those already acquainted with Miami’s charms. On the evening of May 13, the Oggetti showroom will host a talk by upand-coming designer Vito Selma, who will speak about his country, the Philippines, and how it influences his work through materials, history, culture, and inspiration.

The debut of Maison&Objet Americas coincides with a new surge of development in the Design District, fueled by rising interest in the 30-acre neighborhood. “Right now, [the district] is in transition, but it’s possible to see the vision unfolding—a grander, bigger, more cosmopolitan vision of a shopping district that is both safely sophisticated and at the same time a bit on the cutting edge, with architecture that explores new idioms and new paths,” says Miami-based architecture critic Beth Dunlop, editor-in-chief of Modern magazine. “Craig Robins has always had a commitment to good architecture and good design, as well as to art. And perhaps most importantly, he is also a believer in good urbanism, which is why this is a pedestrian-oriented district.”

Among the features helping to ensure that the Design District remains both walkable and architecturally significant are hundreds of new places to stow one’s vehicle, no valet required. The first of four planned parking

A reproduction of visionary designer Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome in the Palm Court plaza.

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Zaha Hadid’s Elastika, in the landmark 1921 Moore Building.

structures opened last December as part of the Palm Court retail complex, capped off by Tokyo-based architect Sou Fujimoto’s striking blue-glass building. Pedestrians exit the underground garage, designed by SB Architects, by ascending a spiral staircase into a reproduction of Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome—a bubblelike structure embedded within Palm Court’s plaza.

The real showstopper, however, is the newly opened City View Garage, located along the edge of the district and adjacent to I-195. The envelope of the six-story building (“a triumph,” Dunlop calls it), which also includes retail stores and office space, is a collaboration between the design firms Leong Leong and Iwamoto Scott and acts as a kind of shimmering billboard for the district, complete with two commissioned artworks by John Baldessari.

“There are few places that celebrate architecture at the scale of a neighborhood like the Design District,” says Christopher Leong, a director of the New York– and Los Angeles–based Leong Leong, which wrapped the garage’s western façade in gold titanium-coated stainless steel. “It has the feeling of being both experimental and grounded at the same time.”

Art institutions, including the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, which opened last December in temporary quarters in the Moore Building, add to the neighborhood’s cultural ballast. Locust Projects, a nonprofit exhibition space founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami artists, moved from Wynwood to the Design District in 2009 and has since upgraded to larger digs on North Miami Avenue. “Freed from sales pressure and institutional limitations, exhibiting artists create work that is grander, both physically and conceptually, than their resources previously allowed,” says Executive Director Chana Budgazad Sheldon.

During Maison&Objet Americas, Locust Projects will present the debut solo exhibition of Costa Rican–born, Miami-based artist Roberto Gómez, who “will create an installation of poured-paint panels that will be stretched throughout the gallery on a structure resembling a clothesline,” says Sheldon. “In our Project Room, sculptor Mia Feuer will present an immersive installation that continues her investigation into transforming landscapes.”

As the Design District continues its own transformation, its challenge will be to remain a hotbed of design amidst rapid retail expansion. For Thais Roda, CEO of Christian Liaigre, the common thread running through the neighborhood’s fashion, furniture, and interior design companies is their orientation around an atelier, or creative workshop, whether the finished product is a sofa or a stiletto. Says Liaigre, “The Miami Design District has surpassed all stereotypes and has created its own identity of art and culture on an international stage.” ■

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Opens Thursday, May 14, from 6 to 9 PM. At Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique (4141 NE Second Ave., Ste. 106C, 305-573-8483; susanerlifestyle boutique.1stdibs.com), Susane Ronai shows the creation of one of her chairs, from building the frame by hand to upholstering.

On Thursday, May 14, TAG Heuer (140 NE 39th St., 305-576-0884; tagheuer.com) partners with Luxury Living to host a Fendi Casa installation in the VIP lounge, designed by local interior designer Miriam Oliveira.

Vhernier (140 NE 39th St., 305-445-9356; vhernier.it/en-us) presents a collection of silver pieces from Italy’s De Vecchi Milano 1935.

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courtesy of dominique lévy gallery (moon mask )

A detail from Peter Marino’s Double Portrait (2013) by Manolo Yllera, from the exhibit “One Way: Peter Marino” at the Bass Museum of Art. © damien hirst and science ltd. all rights reserved / dacs, london / ars, ny 2014. opposite page: oriol © 2014 thomas houseago / artists rights society (ars), new york / adagp, paris;

tarridas photography (wasteafterwaste); courtesy of the wolfsonian – fiu (radio , nocturne);

photography courtesy of manolo yllera . artwork in background

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What’s happening at top Miami museums during Maison&Objet Americas. by suzanne charle

For MUCH oF tHe 20tH CentUry, MiaMi—as the youngest large city in the United States—didn’t have the public funds to establish its own municipal art museums. Here the activism of private collectors and philanthropists has been vital in their creation. nearly 60 years ago, Joe and emily Lowe gave the city its frst art center, the Lowe art Museum. in the following decades, renowned collectors like John and Johanna Bass, Don and Mera rubell, Martin Margulies, and Carlos and rosa de la Cruz, among others, helped make Miami an important city for the arts by founding eponymous museums. the Margulies and rubell collections, known globally for their signifcance in the world of contemporary art, helped draw art Basel to Miami Beach when it was looking to expand outside europe. recently developer Jorge Pérez donated $40 million and 110 artworks to the Miami art Museum, which was renamed for him. explaining his gift, Pérez said, “the museum’s commitment to assembling one of the world’s leading collections of contemporary art refects my own desire for Miami to continue to grow as an international cultural destination.” in celebration of Miami Museum Month and Maison&objet’s frst american show, fve of the city’s top art museums will offer free access to fairgoers and exhibitors, as well as tie-ins to the fair, including lectures at the Wolfsonian by designers selected as M&o’s rising american talents. We asked the museums’ curators and directors to preview exhibits of special interest to the show’s attendees.

Pérez Art MuseuM MiAMi the Pérez art Museum Miami building, designed by esteemed architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, is a work of art in itself and one of the fnest examples of tropical modernism in a city famous for it. “the design is very unusual,” says tobias ostrander, PaMM’s chief curator and deputy director for curatorial affairs, “a counterpoint to the white and shiny architecture of Miami.” For the architects, the nearby sea and the lush tropical environment inspired a guiding principle: to incorporate the outdoors into their design. acclaimed botanist and artist Patrick Blanc, for example, created hanging gardens of indigenous plants that reach all the way to the building’s roof. Not to be missed: the museum concentrates on international art of the 20th and 21st centuries that best refects Miami’s cultural diversity and modern ethos. Known for promoting young artists, PaMM asked argentine artist Diego Bianchi to produce the installation WasteAfterWaste (now on display), which “transfers trash into art,” says ostrander, and asks viewers to consider the current global obsession with commodities. Victoria Gitman, another argentine now living in Miami, offers a different take on the commodifcation of life in the current exhibit “Desiring eye,” featuring 30 hyperrealist paintings of elegant objects the artist found at fea markets.

1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-375-3000; pamm.org

the WolfsoniAn—floridA internAtionAl university the Wolfsonian was founded in 1986 by indefatigable collector Mitchell Wolfson Jr. to demonstrate how art and design shape the human experience. Housed in a Mediterranean revival structure in the heart of the art Deco District, the museum contains some 120,000 objects that trace the social, artistic, and technological evolution of design from the height of the industrial revolution to the end of the Second World War. Not to be missed: For visitors in town for the fair, curator Silvia Barisione suggests the current exhibition “art and Design in the Modern age,” an overview of some of the best of 20th-century design. Highlights include an armchair created in 1931 by Sir edwin Lutyens, often called the greatest British architect of his age, and a sleek silver tea service designed by Giò Ponti, one of italy’s most famous and infuential 20th-century architects. there is even a shortwave radio receiver from 1937 designed by renowned sculptor isamu noguchi. 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 303-531-1001; wolfsonian.org

BAss MuseuM of Art Founded in 1963 with a collection of renaissance and Baroque works from John and Johanna Bass, the Bass Museum is now a showcase for art from around the world, including contemporary pieces. Not to be missed: to celebrate Miami Museum Month and Maison&objet americas, the museum has extended its much-praised exhibition “one Way: Peter Marino” through May 17, after which the building will close for a long-planned internal expansion and repurposing. Marino, the celebrity architect for such luxury retailers as Chanel, Dior, and Louis Vuitton as well as high-profle private clients, outftted multiple rooms with his own designs and works from his extensive art collection. Silvia Karman Cubiñá, the museum’s executive director and chief curator, suggests

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A piece from Diego Bianchi’s WasteAfterWaste (2015), at the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Radio, Nocturne, model no. 1186 (c. 1935), designed

by Walter Dorwin Teague, at the Wolfsonian–FIU; Moon Mask (Two Plane) (2011)

by Thomas Houseago, at the Bass Museum.

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The Mourning Tents (2015) by Christina Pettersson, at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. above: Dinka Woman’s Hearth (2003) by William Morris, at the Lowe Art Museum.

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Lowe Art MuseuM, university of MiAMi Thanks to the gifts of Joe and Emily Lowe and other collectors, the Lowe Art Museum offers a bounty of art that spans the ages from ancient to contemporary and the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. With some 17,500 objects, it is “the largest collection in the Southeast,” says director and chief curator Jill Deupi. Not to be missed: The main building currently features “A Collector’s Legacy,” an exhibit saluting one of Miami’s most passionate collectors, the late Francien C. Ruwitch. It offers museumgoers the frst chance to see some of the fne pieces of contemporary art—from artists Olafur Eliasson, Walker Evans, and Peter Halley, among others—that she accumulated over the years. From there, Deupi suggests that devotees of the decorative arts head to the Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion to see its $3.5 million glass and ceramic collection. In addition to works by such master glass sculptors as Dale Chihuly and Richard Jolley, the collection includes more than 150 pieces by talented contemporary artists, including William Morris’s Dinka Woman’s Hearth, an entire wall of hand-sculpted glass fgures refecting his interest in archaeology, mythology, and pagan cultures. 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables, 305-284-3535; miami.edu/lowe

MuseuM of ConteMporary art north MiaMi “Miami today is a global cultural center,” says Babacar M’Bow, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. Not to be missed: M’Bow points to the current exhibit “Alternative Contemporaneity: TAZ”— with works by 57 artists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America—as one that underscores the city’s diversity. He says the show is noteworthy for “creating a dialogue among different cultures to consider what we have in common as human beings—and that is to make art.” Taking part in the dialogue are emerging artists, many of them from South Florida, and others who, while not necessarily well known in the US, have established reputations in their own countries. One of them is the Chinese-born Guo Jian, “an unorthodox artist who refuses to be silenced,” says M’Bow. Now working in New York, he was deported from his native country for daring to make art about China today, including a diorama of Tiananmen Square. 770 NE 125th St., North Miami, 305-893-6211; mocanomi.org n

photography by francesco casale (the mourning tents); courtesy of lowe art museum (dinka woman’s hearth)

that visitors be sure to see the exhibition’s last room, in which Marino’s 2013 staging of the 1762 opera Orfeo ed Euridice plays on televisions, while a nearby wall contrasts a Francesco Clemente painting with a sterling silver curtain made for the production. Such a daring combination of classical and contemporary, of art, fashion, and design, is Marino’s trademark, says Cubiñá. 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 350-673-7530; bassmuseum.org

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InterIor DesIgn & LIfestyLe summIt The program will feature M&O exhibitors and experts in the feld of design.

May 12 “South America: Best of Interior Design,” with Diego Montero, founder of M+Diego Montero, moderated by Taissa Buescu, editor-inchief of Casa Vogue Brasil; 12 to 12:45 pm.

“Leading Voices in Architecture,” with Andres Duany, founding partner of Duany Platzer-Zyberk, moderated by Spencer Bailey, editor-in-chief of Surface; 1 to 1:45 pm.

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by POLaRT. next page: The Margarita pendant lamp by David Pompa.

“The Evolving Bathroom: From Function to Indulgence,” with Kelly Hoppen, founder and owner of Kelly Hoppen Interiors, and Belinda Try, founder and executive director of apaiser; 2 to 2:45 pm.

“Best of Materials: Explore the State of the Art in Materials Now and For the Future,” with Andrew Dent, vice president of library and materials research at Material ConneXion; 2 to 2:45 pm.

Keynote speech: “Dreams” by Dror Benshetrit, owner of the New York–based design studio Dror; 3 to 3:45 pm.

May 13 “The Four Seasons Dubai at Jumeirah Beach: Creating Coherent Design Where Urban Luxury Meets Pristine Ocean,” with Michael Booth of Bamo; Granville McAnear of Craig Roberts Associates; and Carly Sullivan, edito-

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rial director at Dering Hall; 11 to 11:45 am.

“Art, Design, and Culture: How The Related Group Has Reinvented the Condominium Market,” with architects and designers William Meyer, Piero Lissoni, Joao Armentano, Carlos Rosso, and Patricia Hanna; 12 to 12:45 pm.

“Predictions for Offine Retail Innovation,” moderated by Richard Cook, editorial director of Wallpaper; 1 to 1:45 pm.

“Push & Pull: Working with Art in Interiors and Landscape Design,” with Dering Hall vice president Frank Ballabio and interior designers Todd Davis, Robert Brown, and Charlotte Dunagan; 2 to 2:45 pm.

Keynote speech by Zanini de Zanine, Maison&Objet Americas Designer of the Year, moderated by Taissa Buescu, editor-in-chief of Casa Vogue Brasil; 3 to 3:45 pm.

May 14 Keynote speech

by Karim Rashid, founder and owner of Karim Rashid and one of the most prolific designers of his generation; 10 to 10:45 am.

“What If? Rethinking the Collective Experience,” with David Rockwell, of Rockwell Group, and Cindy Allen, editor-in-chief of Interior Design; 11 to 11:45 am.

“Why Miami Now?,” moderated by Kendell Cronstrom, editor-in-chief of NYC&G and HC&G; 12 to 12:45 pm.

“Global Retail: Beauty, Creativity, and New Infuences,” moderated by designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg,

with Cindy Allen, editor-inchief of Interior Design; 1 to 1:45 pm.

“Translating Design and Architecture into Product Design,” with Lee F. Mindel, cofounder of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, and Peter Sallick, CEO and creative director of Waterworks; 2 to 2:45 pm.

“East Comes West: Brickell Feels the Force of a New Showcase of Hospitality Design at the East Hotel Miami,” with Alejandro Gonzales, vice president of Arquitectonica; Clodagh, founder of Clodagh Design; and Laurent Fraticelli, general manager of East Hotel Miami; moderated by Guy Dittrich, editor-at-large at Sleeper; 3 to 3:45 pm.

May 15 “Metropolitan

by Como Miami Beach,” with designer Paola Navone and Cindy Allen, editor-in-chief of Interior Design; 12 to 12:45 pm.

“How the Crowd Will Change the World,” with Ganaël Bascoul, CEO of the trends forecasting agency SoonSoon Soon.com; 1 to 1:45 pm.

“Miami Design District: Branding and Innovating an Urban Neighborhood,” with Craig Robins, CEO and president of Dacra; 2 to 2:45 pm.

DesIgn DIstrIct events ChroMe hearts The jewelry, sunglasses, and leather goods brand will create special in-store vignettes throughout the week. 4025 NE Second Ave., 786-9537384; chromehearts.com

holly hunt Holly Hunt will feature an installation of 20 new furniture and lighting pieces from the Studio Collection. The brand will also introduce fve new designs for the Artisan Collection from Pouenat.

3833 NE Second Ave., 305-571-2012; hollyhunt.com

hublot Artist Liliana Botero will paint a Hublot watch in the store window. A selection of her works will also be displayed in the gallery.

Wine and light bites will be served. 140 NE 39th St., Ste. 103, 786-762-2929; hublot.com

Jonathan adler Jonathan Adler Miami will welcome M&O attendees with afternoon Champagne and sweets throughout the week.

4040 NE Second Ave., Ste. 102, 305-576-0200; jonathanadler.com

loCust ProJeCts Miami-based artist Roberto Gómez presents his debut public installation, What Happens When Nothing Happens, at Locust Projects, a nonproft exhibition space in the Design District. The sitespecifc piece, featuring clotheslines dotted with objects made from latex paint, flls the main exhibit space. Concurrently, sculptor Mia Feuer shows an immersive installation in the Project Room. May 2 to June 13. 3852 N. Miami Ave., 305-5768570; locustprojects.org

loewe The luxury fashion house will host an exhibit inspired

by Lucie Rie, one of the

photography by carlos burgos

Maison&Objet Americas runs from May 12 to 15, 2015, at the Miami Beach Convention Center (1901 Convention Center Dr.).

Here is a guide to special programming and events of interest during the fair. For more information, go to maison-objet.com/ en/americas.

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The Miami fagship location of Marni welcomes Maison&Objet attendees with refreshments as the brand debuts its Spring-Summer Runway 2015 collection. 3930 NE Second Ave., Ste. 100, 305-764-3357; marni.com

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LifeStyLe Boutique Susane R. will present “Made in the USA” and demonstrate the creation of one of her chairs during the week of the fair. 4141 NE Second Ave., Ste. 106C, 305-573-8483; susanerlifestyleboutique.

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Vhernier The Vhernier boutique presents an installation of pieces from the Italian silverware brand De Vecchi Milano 1935, now part of Vhernier Group. May 12.

140 NE 39th St., 305-4459356; vhernier.it/en-us

LuMinaire LaB Luminaire Lab will unveil an installation designed by Omer Arbel, founder of the Vancouver-based Omer Arbel Offce and creative director of Bocci, during a reception. Arbel will also present a DesignLives lecture and the US launch of Bocci’s latest lighting collection, the 73 Series.

May 13, 6 to 9 pm. 3901

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of the collection in the Internum showroom. May 15. 3841 NE Second Ave., Ste. 101, 305-572-1123; internum.com

LLadró Lladró, the worldrenowned porcelain brand, celebrates the opening of its new fagship boutique in Miami with an evening of Spanish wines and tapas. The event will feature the spring lines, including lighting and home décor.

May 13, 5 to 7 pm. 140 NE 39th St., Ste. 204, 305573-4676; lladro.com

oggetti Oggetti will host a talk

by Vito Selma, an up-andcoming designer from the Philippines, who will discuss how the natural materials, culture, and history of his native country infuence his designs.

May 14, 6 pm. 4141 NE Second Ave., Ste. 114, 305-573-4676; oggetti designs.com

ornare Ornare will host a talk about Brazil’s infuence on design and real estate in Miami. The event celebrates Ornare collaborator and Maison&Objet Americas Designer of the Year Zanini de Zanine.

The panelists will include luxury developers, renowned Brazilian project designers, and Miami real estate brokers and agents.

May 14, 5 pm. 4040 NE Second Ave., 305-4380260; ornare.com.br

niBa hoMe Niba Home will host a talk on modernism and a book signing by James Magni.

Named a “Top 100” designer by Architectural Digest, Magni draws inspiration from his Italian

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heritage, travel, sculpture, art, and spirituality. May 14, 6 to 8 pm. 39 NE 39th St., 305-573-1939; nibahome.com

the rug CoMpany Showcasing pieces by fashion icons such as Paul Smith and Alexander McQueen, the exhibition “Collectable Collaborations” explores how style transitions from the runway to the home.

Each rug is a blend of traditional handmade craft and contemporary design. The opening is cosponsored by Cultured magazine. May 14, 6 to 9 pm. 4040 NE Second Ave., Ste. 104, 305-576-9868; therugcompany.com

tag heuer TAG Heuer partners with Luxury Living to host a Fendi Casa installation in the boutique’s VIP lounge, designed by local interior designer Miriam Oliveira.

TAG Heuer also offers a Champagne celebration throughout the day. May 15. 140 NE 39th St., 305576-0884; tagheuer.com

internuM Internum will welcome visitors with afternoon prosecco and a viewing

to see everything the area has to offer. Following a private event, Miami Ironside’s more than 65 showrooms and studios will open their doors to the public for an evening of live jazz, French cuisine, specialty cocktails, and an art performance by the French design duo Mel et Kio, who will create some of their popular wall art on the spot. May 15, 7 to 10 pm. 7610 NE Fourth Ct., 305-438-9002; miamiironside.com

In celebration of Maison&Objet Americas, Miami’s most prominent museums and galleries will offer free admission to fairgoers, with some venues presenting special popup displays. Attendees must show their badge to receive free admission to Pérez Art Museum Miami (1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-375-3000; pamm.org), Wolfsonian– FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 303531-1001; wolfsonian.org), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (770 NE 125th St., North Miami, 305-893-6211; moca nomi.org), Lowe Art Museum (1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables, 305-284-3535; lowemuseum.org), and Bass Museum of Art (2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 350-673-7530; bass museum.org). Among the special museum events, Wolfsonian–FIU will present a panel discussion with M&O Rising Talents, moderated by Wolfsonian curator Christian Larsen.

May 14 at 7 pm.

Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Design Center of the Americas (dcota.com) is one of the world’s largest design campuses, with 800,000 square feet and more than 60 showrooms. To welcome Maison&Objet Americas, DCOTA will host a series of cocktail receptions, showroom visits, and product launches for attendees and exhibitors, with many of the showrooms offering their own programming. Cocktail receptions will take place Tuesday through Thursday from 4 to 7 pm. Three buses will run between the fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center and DCOTA throughout the four-day event.

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The showrooms and studios of Miami Ironside, a hot new area in the city’s historic Upper Eastside, will host a Campus Collective Party, a night of celebrating art and design. The creative district will be lit up, and guests will have a chance

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Maison&Objet Americas will honor Zanini de Zanine as its frst Designer of the Year at Frank Gehry’s New World Center (500 17th St., Miami Beach, 305-6733330; nws.edu) on May 13.

By invitation only. (See the feature on Zanine on page 58.) n

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20th century’s most important and innovative potters. Loewe will also collaborate with José Luis Bazán, a third-generation artisan from Ubrique, in the Spanish province of Cádiz, known for its leather workshops. 110 NE 39th St., 305-576-7601; loewe.com

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