These large mirror-polished stainless steel vessels offer slices of tangerines and a message about food production waste to passersby while slowly rotating over the Miami River Inn’s swimming pool. Filled with 17,572.84 gallons of water, it holds what’s needed to produce 200 pounds of the beloved Miami citrus.
This collaboration between two Italian design studios upcycles luxurious stone offcuts as dynamic lighting. Here, an irregular waste slab of pink onyx glows from within, gaining a surprisingly soft quality for its physical heft, held by a dry-joint system that allows endless configurations.
This bent-metal side table by this Los Angeles-based designer and first-time curator, who brought together the work of six designers (including herself) for a group show booth titled Something Last, explores the delicate quality of a material most-often associated with heavy industrial use.
In a red velvet swagged room shared with designs by peers in his self-described “mother agent” Room—File, New York-based designer Jirah Joshua’s leather-corseted chair draws formal references from handmade pews, church benches, and soaring cathedral arches while its tactile cover material beckons touch.
Woven with delicate glass florals and baubles, this romantic bronze and brass bedroom set—complete with a canopy frame, bespoke curtains, sconces, and much more—brings an imagination-driven take on Miami’s tropical landscape inside the fair’s historic inn setting.
