BASEL.- For its sixteenth edition,
Design Miami/ Basel explores the theme The Golden Age. Alongside presentations from 34 of the world's leading galleries and 18 Curio exhibitions, the fair presents the first Podium exhibition in Basel, and an exciting series of Special Satellite Projects, digital and in-person talks.
Exhibitor Highlights:
Best in Show Awards
Design Miami/ announced the award winners for this year's Basel fair:
Best Gallery: Morentz
Exhibiting for the first time at Design Miami/ Basel, Netherlands-based Morentz has won the Best Gallery Presentation award. According to advisor Simon Andrews, “Their skillfully curated, atmospherically staged installation of rare and diverse works celebrates the very best of international mid-century design, intuitively uniting Nordic, Italian, American, and Brazilian expressions.”
Best Curio: FAINA Gallery
The award for Best Curio Presentation goes to Ukrainian-born, Belgian-based designer Victoria Yakusha of FAINA Gallery. Her Stepping on Ukrainian Soil installation features a two-and-a-half-meter handwoven tapestry that symbolizes the deep, unbreakable connection between Ukrainians and the soil of their homeland.
Best Historic Object: Galerie Meubles et Lumières - Office Set of Pierre Poutout, 1970
The fair’s Best Historic Object award winner is a suite of office furniture designed by Pierre Poutout, presented by Galerie Meubles et Lumières in Paris. According to architect Lee Mindel, “This low slung office suite—three chairs, a console, and a Calder-shaped desk—is an historic reminder of 1970s-era, avant-garde French architecture. The desk is anchored to the floor only by a flat steel plate. The comfortable chairs have a gyroscope base that adjusts to any position. Each piece is an engineering feat that appears to defy gravity. And the ensemble is a gesamtkunstwerk that celebrates the integration of design and architecture.”
Best Contemporary Object: Maria Wettergren - Astrid Krogh Planet, 2021
And finally we have the Best Contemporary Object: Danish artist-designer Astrid Krogh’s Planet, presented by Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris. Architect Lee Mindel explains: “From a land where light can be either overabundant or totally scarce, Krogh has created an abstract expression of the science and art of the universe. Made of gold leaf, silver, platinum, aluminum, and fiber optics—with its sweeping flux of moving light and various vibrating surfaces—Krogh’s Planet is a pulsating feast for the eyes.”
Podium
This year sees the launch of Podium in Basel, a selling exhibition of museum quality works curated by Maria Cristina Didero around this year's theme,The Golden Age.
Pieces from the Podium exhibition are available to shop online at designmiami.com.
Superblue presents Pulse Typology
Superblue returns to Basel for a second year, to once again take over the 2500sqm ground floor event hall of the Messeplatz, greeting audiences as they first enter the fair. This year, Superblue presents Pulse Topology, the latest artwork in pioneering Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s ongoing Pulse Series. Recognized for his interactive installations at the intersection of architecture and performance art, Lozano-Hemmer’s works are activated by the real-time detection of viewers’ biometrics such as heartbeats, breaths, voices, or fingerprints.
