Airbnb/ Sobremesa
Airbnb presents Sobremesa, a lively exploration of shared space, by Pedro&Juana, an emerging Mexico City-based design studio founded by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss. Sobremesa is the Mexican tradition of sharing time and space lingering around the table after a meal in casual conversation; Pedro&Juana recreate the experience of sobremesa in a unique environment inspired by iconic Mexican courtyard spaces. Walking into the installation, visitors will feel transported to a space that is authentically connected to the designers’ home city through plants, interior design and local everyday objects. The Sobremesa installation will change and evolve throughout the week to represent how shared spaces—like Airbnb homes—become rich in experience, spirit, and memory as more and more people live and participate in them over time. The exhibition also features a program of meals, cocktails, music, and experiences at designated times throughout the week, activated by an array of diverse hosts selected by the designers.

Louis Vuitton/ Objets Nomades
Objets Nomades is a collection of furniture that reinvents Louis Vuitton’s Art of Travel. The installation will be composed of its most emblematic creations, some of which were especially made for Design Miami/: the Stool by Atelier Oi, the Cocoon by the Campana Brothers, the Bell Lamp by Barber & Osgerby, the Concertina Table , Chair and Light shade by Raw Edges, the Swing Chair by Patricia Urquiola and the Lounge Chair by Marcel Wanders. Louis Vuitton also unveils the Blossom Stool, designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, and the Fur Cocoon by the Campana Brothers. Sharing a sense of intuitiveness, desire and pleasure, the Objets Nomades aims to continue Louis Vuitton’s tradition of offering inspiring and surprising designs to clients all over the world.

COMPAC ICE
COMPAC will present ICE, a collaboration between the leading Spanish surfaces company and Arik Levy, the esteemed multi-disciplinary artist and designer from Israel. The installation is created from Levy’s expressive Genesis collection created for COMPAC, showing how that collection enhances the genuine characteristics of quartz and marble. Inspired by the great frozen lakes of ice which can be found in the Arctic, Genesis reveals visual fragments similar to those found in natural stone and provokes the eye to delve into the ethereal qualities and surprising transparency of the material. The Design Miami/ installation ICE, will present Genesis in vertical and horizontal formats, as both a surface and product – showing the many potential applications, as well as the beauty of COMPAC as a material.

Panerai Design Miami/ Visionary Award 2016/
SHoP Architects will be celebrated with an original design by the firm: a pavilion which serves as a public plaza at the entrance to this year’s Design Miami/ fair. This year also marks the first time a pavilion will go on to be permanently installed in the Miami Design District following the fair. For the project, titled Flotsam & Jetsam, SHoP collaborated with multiple partners in order to realize its forward-thinking use of 3D printing and complex structural engineering, including Branch Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dassault Systémes, and Thornton Tomasetti. Once the fair is over, Flotsam & Jetsam will be reinstalled in the Miami Design District’s iconic Jungle Plaza to house an outdoor cultural event space for long-term public enjoyment.

Design Satellites/
For 2016, Design Miami/ welcomes various designers, institutions and organizations to create programming with strong curatorial, innovative and educational perspectives. Each satellite program reflects a contemporary view onto what’s happening in the design world at large.

As part of the Design Satellites, this year’s Collectors Lounge will be designed by award -winning Istanbul -based Tabanlıoğ lu Architects. The heterogenic nature of the practice is reflected in the Flamingo Lounge which ranges from the colorful, ethereal and surreal liquidity of Gaetano Pesce, to the rigid utilitarian minimalism of Mies van der Rohe in its references. The long linear space is broken down into programmatic zones, each represented by a piece of furniture/symbol. The pieces of furniture are stripped to their bare minimum, existing as abstract, primitive geometries.

CNN Style joins Design Miami/ as the official news outlet for the 2016 edition of the fair. The platform will have an on-site newsroom and broadcast live daily. CNN Style will create an interactive, virtual reality green room featuring Google Tilt Brush and HTC. London-based design commentator and critic, Max Fraser will be the outlet’s lead design correspondent, conducting interviews with art and design luminaries, celebrities and fair visitors, in-studio and outside the fair.

Design Miami/ and Artsy partner once again to take the global forum for design beyond its location in Miami Beach. As in previous years, the fair's exclusive online partner will feature works from participating galleries via a desktop and Artsy mobile apps. The Artsy online preview provides additional international exposure for the fair, gallery presentations, and designers. Starting on November 22nd, collectors around the world will have the opportunity to preview programming and visitor information, place sales inquiries on works, and coordinate appointments with exhibitors.