Design Miami.Paris 2025: the themes

This year’s programming reveals strong themes. Zoomorphic forms take center stage. Galerie Gastou and Galerie Desprez-Bréhéret (Paris) explore an Early Birds theme. Galerie Mitterand (Paris) presents animal-inspired works by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, including Tortue topiaire III (2000 & 2003), shown in the garden as part of Design at Large. The Future Perfect (New York/Los Angeles) unveils The Soul Garden, an immersive installation by Vikram Goyal Studio with Sissel Tolaas, reimagining India’s ancient animal fables through design, art, and ecology.

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Galerie Patrick Seguin at Design Miami.Paris 2025. Photo Ivan Erofeev, courtesy Design Miami

The Art Déco centennial

Another key focus celebrates Art Deco’s centennial. Gallery Maxime Flatry (Paris) showcases ceramics from 1890–1930 by Jean Besnard, Ernest Chaplet, and Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, with floral installations by Thierry Boutemy. Galerie Chastel-Maréchal (Paris) presents Forêt (1929) by Jean Dunand—an exquisite lacquer and silver-leaf screen once owned by Princess Marie Bonaparte.

Smaller-scale works also stand out. Debuting in France, Patrick Parrish Studio (New York) stages a solo show of Carl Auböck’s designs—bells, dishes, baskets, and bookends—elevating everyday objects into art. Yves Macaux Gallery (Brussels) exhibits Josef Hoffmann’s cutlery, while Galerie MiniMasterpiece (Paris) returns with new jewelry by Lee Ufan, Pierre Charpin, Andres Serrano, and Pablo Reinoso.

Best of Show Awards honor exceptional presentations. The jury – Grela Orihuela (Design Miami), Lee Mindel, Simon Andrews, Al Eiber, and Jeremy Morrison – selected the winners.

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Design Miami.Paris 2025. Photo: Ivan Erofeev, courtesy Design Miami

Best of Show Awards

Best Gallery Presentation: Yves Macaux Gallery (Brussels), recognized for its Viennese works spanning the ornate Wiener Werkstätte to early modernist restraint. Highlights include a Josef Hoffmann brass vessel and Adolf Loos longcase clock

Best Gallery Presentation: Yves Macaux Gallery at Design Miami Paris

Best Design at Large Presentation: James de Wulf, LLC (Los Angeles) for Resonating Ping Pong Table, Song No. 1 (2025)—a multisensory aluminum table tuned to an A minor pentatonic scale that transforms gameplay into a sound bath
Best Contemporary Work: Extended Form Three (2025) by Adam Pendleton at Friedman Benda (New York/Los Angeles). The white onyx table merges expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual design through pure geometric forms

Best Contemporary Work – Extended Form Three (2025) by Adam Pendleton for Friedman Benda at Design Miami.Paris 2025. Photo: Ivan Erofeev, courtesy Design Miami

Best Historic Work: Two Jean Prouvé masterpieces at Galerie Downtown François Laffanour (Paris): the Bureau Présidence (c.1951) and Table à Plans (1951). Both feature green lacquered steel and innovative forms that introduced industrial hues into domestic furniture

Best Historic Work: Bureau Présidence (c. 1951) and Table à Plans (1951) by Jean Prouvé for Galerie Downtown Francois LAFFANOUR at Design Miami.Paris 2025. Photo: Ivan Erofeev, courtesy Design Miami

Each award winner received a trophy by Maison Daum, designed by Victoria Wilmotte. Crafted in pâte de cristal using Daum’s lost-wax technique, the piece features bold geometry, sharp folds, and vivid color.

Additional Programming Highlights

Design Miami & Apple: Designers of Tomorrow

A new initiative powered by iPad spotlights four emerging talents – Atelier Duyi Han (Shanghai), Jolie Ngo (California), Marie & Alexandre (Paris), and Marco Campardo (London). Their works show how technology enhances design research, creation, and execution

Designers of Tomorrow at Design Miami.Paris 2025. Photo: Elodie Croquet, all shot on iPhone 17 Pro Max

Special Project: Paulin, Paulin, Paulin

The studio revives Pierre Paulin’s 1966 concept La Déclive, a modular seating system that transforms the floor into living architecture. The monumental installation invites visitors to inhabit space differently, blurring boundaries between furniture and environment.

Panel – “From the Land Up: Designing AlUla from Desert Line to Human Scale”

On October 23 at 11:00 AM, the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) and AFALULA host a discussion on designing with geology, climate, and heritage. The panel explores how architecture and craft rooted in place can shape cultural identity and foster creative exchange.