What’s Happening: After a successful debut outing in Paris and a global rebrand under Basic.Space, the design showcase makes its hotly anticipated arrival in L.A. with a compelling mix of West Coast–inspired works.

The Download: When it comes to collectible design, few markets are more promising than Los Angeles. The scene has all but exploded recently thanks to a dynamic mix of blue-chip design galleries (Friedman Benda, Southern Guild, Marta) planting roots there and marquee fairs like Frieze and Felix cementing the city’s art week as a must-attend fixture on the cultural calendar. This energy caught the attention of Design Miami, the global forum that has undergone a tip-to-toe rebrand following its recent acquisition by online marketplace Basic.Space. At the same time, the fair was riding the high of a successful debut in Paris this past fall.

Design Miami’s inaugural Los Angeles showcase, which is open until Monday, transforms a private 1938 Holmby Hills estate designed by esteemed architect Paul Revere Williams into a veritable showpiece for today’s most illustrious collectible designers. It’s an ideal location for the fair and follows the same formula established in Paris, where it took over an 18th-century hôtel particulier once home to Karl Lagerfeld. In L.A., programming is similarly dialed into local lore—Williams shaped California’s vernacular and even designed the font for the Beverly Hills Hotel. In that vein, the galleries selected by newly appointed curatorial director Ashlee Harrison hew closely to nostalgic themes like Golden State eclecticism, the postwar design boom, and car culture.

For example, R & Company is showing works by West Coast designers like Rogan Gregory and Jolie Ngo; Friedman Benda is following suit by emphasizing local talents like Carmen D’Apollonio. Gallery Fumi, whose stateside debut took over Sized Studio earlier this year, recreates a domestic setting—one clear standout is a pair of mirrored wall sculptures by Sam Orlando Miller in hues inspired by the California sunrise and sunset. Over at The Future Perfect, don’t miss Genesis Belanger and Bower Studios’ series of acid-etched bronze mirrors that feature sets of hands emerging from behind curtains. The works on view at the Podium section spark compelling conversations about Hollywood golden-age glamour, cultural heritage, and tech innovation.

In Their Own Words: “The intimate residential setting provided an opportunity for galleries to respond directly to the distinctive interiors—through harmonic conversation or striking contrast,” Jen Roberts, Design Miami’s CEO, tells WWD, “proving for an engaging new fair format that we’ve never experienced before.”

Surface Says: The hype of Design Miami’s editions in Paris and L.A., the three-hour-long queues that Alcova created outside Villa Borsani, and the intrigue of Esther’s unlikely location at the New York Estonian House have convinced us that forgoing booths in favor of unconventional settings is a model worth pursuing.

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Just moments away from Zion National Park’s breathtaking rock formations and cliffs, a smattering of safari camps nestled into a red-rock canyon offer guests midcentury-inflected interiors and amenities like clawfoot copper bathtubs, hammocks and telescopes for stargazing, and heated floors for the desert chill.

Awestruck readers can credit co-founder Bygnal Dutson for bringing the space to life, and Los Angeles creative studio The Madison Melle Agency for translating his awe-inspiring vision into a high-impact digital presence and brand identity. “We’re excited to unveil an equally captivating digital representation of Open Sky Zion’s ethos, through a narrative that conveys emotions like the warmth you feel beaming in early in the morning, or the blissfully silent contemplation as you stare up at the perfectly clear sky full of stars,” Kate Ginn, the firm’s VP of communications, tells Surface. We took a closer look with Dutson and Cara Federici, CEO and head of design at The Madison Melle Agency.

Earlier this spring, design enthusiasts from as far-flung as Hong Kong to New York and London decamped to the Scottish countryside for a first look at Zaha Hadid Architects’ latest commission, with an introduction from firm director Melodie Leung. And while the debut wasn’t a work of the built environment, it did translate the firm’s signature parametricism into high art. Leung and Scotch Whisky distiller The Dalmore introduced The Rare: a one-of-a-kind bottle of 49-year-old Single Malt Scotch housed in a bespoke glass sculpture designed by Leung and created by master glass blower Fiaz Elson.

The Rare evokes the image of a full-bodied dram of whisky being decadently swirled in a rocks glass made of fine crystal, and took Elson and her team more than 2,000 hours to create. “A highlight for me was meeting with Fiaz and her team and discovering their world of working with glass,” Leung says of the process and the “extraordinary levels of trust and communication” it required. Together, she says, they “[brought] the material to the limit of what is possible.” The piece cured for 12 weeks at Elson’s workshop the Glass Foundry, where it then took more than 500 hours to polish, and weighs in at 176 pounds.

The finished piece made its debut at a celebratory gala in March at V&A Dundee and is currently up for auction at Sotheby’s London. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Scottish outpost of the V&A, which is known by its informal moniker of “Scotland’s Design Museum.”

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Hanneke Lourens has lived in the United States for more than a decade, but still feels deeply connected to her home country of South Africa. The intricacies of its urban landscapes—and the corrugated metal often found within them—inform the up-and-coming furniture maker’s debut collection of handmade wooden pieces. They mimic the metal’s flowing shapes in white oak through a delicate balance of order, chaos, and the beauty in both.

On Tuesday, artists, collectors, and supporters of one of Manhattan’s defining institutions devoted to the medium of printmaking gathered in Tribeca for a rooftop benefit in support of Print Center New York. The evening toasted Pat Steir, Judy Paulson Fontaine Press, and Judith K. Brodsky, as well as a year of solo exhibitions by Marie Watt and Nicole Eisenman. Steir was also recognized with a special edition print by Mickalene Thomas in Steir’s honor. The reveal of Thomas’s edition of 55 prints created to benefit the center, along with an Artsy auction, capped off the night.

When was it? May 14

Where was it? Tribeca, New York

Who was there? Judy Hecker, Katherine Bradford, Kiki Smith, Leslie Diuguid, Marina Adams, Stanley Whitney, Will Villalongo, and more.

Studio Plow is a San Francisco–based architecture and design studio known for an aesthetic that’s restrained, yet warm and soulful. Each project is seen as a new opportunity for discovery, resulting in completely bespoke design. Working in collaboration with clients, the studio crafts a narrative that uncovers the soul of each space, mapping its full potential.

Surface Says: Studio Plow excels at creating expressive interiors with a strong sense of place. The soul of each space shines through every commission and is contextualized by Plow’s dedication to creating interiors that balance contemporary design and warmth.

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