Miami, FL, October 9, 2017/ Design Miami/ returns to Miami Beach December 6–10 for its thirteenth edition as the global forum for design, bringing together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators, and critics. This year, the fair presents thirty-one galleries and eleven Design Curio installations––its largest selection of Design Curios to date––and a robust offering of Satellites, Collaborations, Design Talks, and exclusive events, all located steps away from Art Basel Miami Beach, the premier art show in the Americas.

Gallery Debuts, Founding Galleries, and Standout Solo Shows/ Thirty-one of the world’s leading design galleries will present exhibitions, including three galleries that are making their Design Miami/ debut: Converso (New York), which presents modern furnishings and objects, including furniture by architects, rare prototypes, and limited editions, and will highlight California modernist architect Albert Frey; Lebreton (San Francisco), with a special feature on Jacques Quinet along with works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, and François Raty; and Maison Gerard (New York), known since 1974 for their extensive collection of French Art Deco as well as, more recently, their contemporary lighting, sculpture, and ceramics, and will show a monumental Isolation Sphere by Maurice-Claude Vidili.

Seven galleries that have exhibited at Design Miami/ since its founding will again present reliably outstanding displays of historic and contemporary collectible design: Cristina Grajales Gallery (New York); Demisch Danant (New York); Galerie kreo (Paris and London); Galerie Patrick Sequin (Paris); LAFFANOUR – Galerie Downtown (Paris); Magen H Gallery (New York); and R & Company (New York).

Notable presentations include solo shows at Galerie kreo, featuring limited-edition design work from Paris-based brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec whose designs span from small objects and furniture to expansive spatial installations and architecture, from the handcrafted to the industrial; and Magen H Gallery, which is featuring furniture by French designer and master wood craftsman Pierre Chapo, who counted among his influences Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Another highlighted presentation is at the Future Perfect (New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), whose exhibition is centered on the work of Eric Roinestad’s singular handcrafted ceramic objects, which are inspired by the spirit of California folk modernism and his Scandinavian heritage.

American Design, Shaker Furniture, and Global Modernism/A strong presence of historic and contemporary American designers will be felt throughout the fair, including work by George Nakashima, a woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who is considered a father of the American studio craft movement at Moderne Gallery (Philadelphia); Katie Stout and the Haas Brothers at R & Company; artists and identical twins Doug and Mike Starn’s first furniture collection at Cristina Grajales Gallery; and Chicago-based Volume Gallery with architects Krueck + Sexton complemented by other American designers and architects in their program.

The fair includes for the first time outstanding examples of Shaker furniture, a movement whose focus is on form and proportions, asymmetry, and multipurpose elements that add visual interest without being classified as pure decoration.

The Design Curio presentation from John Keith Russell Antiques (South Salem, New York) is created in the Shaker tradition and features outstanding examples from their extensive inventory includes tables, chairs, desks, and stoves along with smaller items, such as baskets and boxes.

Global variations on modernism will also be on view, notably the Brazilian modernists Sérgio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro, and José Zanine Caldas at Mercado Moderno (Rio de Janeiro); and architect Albert Frey, who is considered the founder of Palm Springs’ “desert modernism” in California, at the gallery Converso.

New Design Curios/The Design Curio program is returning to Miami for the fourth time since it began in 2014 with eleven inventive presentations, its largest program to date.

CROSBY STUDIOS presents STAVROPOL/For its first participation in Design Miami/, Crosby Studios (Moscow and New York) founder Harry Nuriev is teaming up with Russian tinsmiths and artisanal metalworkers to create an installation and furniture collection inspired by the izba, a traditional log house found on Russian farmsteads.

MANIERA presents BIJOY JAIN / STUDIO MUMBAI/MANIERA (Brussels) presents an installation by Bijoy Jain’s Studio Mumbai that showcases the studio’s methods of finding contemporary ways to use local traditions in their projects; objects on view will include an Indian daybed (charpai), marble and rosewood bookshelf, bronze Tazia lamp, and a dyed-silk enclosure called the Net Room.

NORWEGIAN CRAFTS presents INSUBORDINATE CREATURES BY ELLEN GRIEG AND ELISABETH VON KROGH/Norwegian Crafts (Oslo) is collaborating with Galleri Format Oslo to present an installation by textile artist Ellen Grieg, ceramic artist Elisabeth von Krogh, and Sean Griffiths of Modern Architects (London) that plays with ambiguous dimensions––seemingly random stripes on the walls, floor, and ceiling, that when viewed from specific positions, coalesce into three-dimensional illusions that “frame” Von Krogh and Grieg’s artworks.

JOHN KEITH RUSSELL presents SHAKER/John Keith Russell, a dealer specializing in Shaker antiques and other design objects, is exhibiting a selection of authentic, historic Shaker furniture and artifacts from the New England communities that were built in the nineteenth century. Much of the highly innovative material presented will be in original, undisturbed condition and will be seen on the market for the first time. Shaker furniture is known for its minimalist form and purpose-driven and innovation-embracing design.

HOUSE OF TODAY presents CONSTRUCTION DECONSTRUCTION byCHERINE MAGRABI TAYEB/Curated by Cherine Magrabi Tayeb, House of Today presents an organic masquerade of inscribed cement that vocalizes a visual story of the rawness and disparity in the identity of contemporary Lebanon. Masses of cement sheets exemplify scraps of the nation’s manuscript, imposing an imprint on a surface that was once bare. These become tangible and visual, illustrating chronicles, records, and visions of Lebanon today.

LIZWORKS presents TIME FOR OATMEAL WITH THE CAMPANA BROTHERS/LIZWORKS and Liz Swig present TFO (Time for Oatmeal), a wholly immersive, sensory experience conceived in collaboration with Fernando and Humberto Campana. The site-specific installation reimagines food as material and material as food. Two TFO bowls designed by the Campanas, one in terracotta, another in cast bronze, in an edition of seven, will be launched at Design Miami/. An exciting and innovative oatmeal menu, developed for TFO by chef Marissa Lippert and food consultant Christine Muhlke, will be offered throughout the day.

PATRICK PARRISH GALLERY presents RAPID LIQUID PRINTING by THE MIT SELF-ASSEMBLY LAB + CHRISTOPHE GUBERAN/Patrick Parrish Gallery, in collaboration with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Christophe Guberan, presents an immersive, futuristic manufacturing experience. The space serves as a manufacturing facility in which a robot instantly prints tote bags and art objects inside a glass tank of translucent gel. After printing, each product will be removed, cleaned, and put on display. Visitors will be able to move around the tank to observe the robot at work. Produced items will be for sale inside the booth. This exhibit will be the first public demonstration of MIT’s Rapid Liquid Printing technology.

LINDSEY ADELMAN presents THE EDGE OF WHAT WE KNOW/Lindsey Adelman pushes the boundaries of her familiar world of lighting in this immersive, personal project. The work is informed by the writings of Physicist/Philosopher Carlo Rovelli and hangs like a kinetic Cabinet of Curiosities. Embracing an open-ended sense of wonder, her line of inquiry considers how our five senses may be limiting our understanding of the reality of the universe. And that science, coupled with our intuitive imagination, can point to the truth if we let it.

SEVAN BIÇAKÇI presents FOSSILS OF TOMORROW by ALI ALIZADEH/Iranian sculptor Ali Alizadeh’s concrete blocks reveal glimpses of rusty craft tools from days gone by, frozen in time. The installation highlights the increasing irrelevance of man-made objects in today’s ever-emerging world of technology. A time may come when the promise of a “better” technological world may actually render humans obsolete. Seven Bıçakçı’s jewels and Alizadeh’s concept seeks to draw a link between craft, technological advancement and the inevitable.

OV PROJECTS presents BUCKMINSTER FULLER and JORGE PARDO/OV project is bringing together the utopian architect Richard Buckminster Fuller & the Cuban-American artist and sculptor Jorge Pardo. OV project aims to present a selection of works by Jorge Pardo that are especially designed for Design Miami/ associated with the still contemporary style of Buckminster Fuller’s utopian architecture. Both artists are working on multiple fields, such as architecture and design and have the same strong interest in taking part of the solutions of the world problems.

Design Miami/ 2017 Exhibitors/Galleries/Carpenters Workshop Gallery/ Paris, London, and New York Converso/ New York Cristina Grajales Gallery/ New York Demisch Danant/ New York Erastudio Apartment–Gallery/ Milan Friedman Benda/ New York The Future Perfect/ New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco Galerie kreo/ Paris and London Galerie Patrick Seguin/ Paris and London Galerie VIVID/ Rotterdam Galleria Antonella Villanova/ Florence Gallery ALL/ Los Angeles and Beijing Hostler Burrows/ New York Jason Jacques Gallery/ New York LAFFANOUR–Galerie Downtown/ Paris Lebreton/ San Francisco Louisa Guinness Gallery/ London Magen H Gallery/ New York Maison Gerard/ New York Mercado Moderno/ Rio de Janeiro Moderne Gallery/ Philadelphia Ornamentum/ Hudson Patrick Parrish Gallery/ New York Pierre Marie Giraud/ Brussels R & Company/ New York Salon 94 Design/ New York Sarah Myerscough Gallery/ London Southern Guild/ Cape Town and Johannesburg Thomas Fritsch–ARTRIUM/ Paris Victor Hunt Designart Dealer/ Brussels Volume Gallery/ Chicago Design Curios/

HOUSE OF TODAY presents CONSTRUCTION DECONSTRUCTION by CHERINE MAGRABI TAYEBCROSBY STUDIOS presents STAVROPOL JOHN KEITH RUSSELL presents SHAKER LIZWORKS presents TIME FOR OATMEAL WITH THE CAMPANA BROTHERS MANIERA presents BIJOY JAIN / STUDIO MUMBAI NORWEGIAN CRAFTS presents INSUBORDINATE CREATURES by ELLEN GRIEG AND ELISABETH VON KROGH PATRICK PARRISH GALLERY presents RAPID LIQUID PRINTING by THE MIT SELF-ASSEMBLY LAB + CHRISTOPHE GUBERAN SALON 94 DESIGN presents TOM SACHS OV PROJECTS presents BUCKMINSTER FULLER and JORGE PARDO LINDSEY ADELMAN presents THE EDGE OF WHAT WE KNOW SEVAN BIÇAKÇI presents FOSSILS OF TOMORROW by ALI ALIZADEH