Reviews

Something is quietly changing at Salone del Mobile. The fair still looks like a showcase of objects, but increasingly it behaves like a platform for systems.

On Salone Raritas, the new collectible-design sector at the 64th Salone del Mobile, curated by Annalisa Rosso with booth architecture by Formafantasma. Twenty-five galleries, one long corridor, and a tonal shift.

Milan Design Week 2026 in progress. Serotonin in Brera, Gucci and Louis Vuitton installations, Miu Miu’s Literary Club, and a city that forces you to decide what counts.

Nomad St. Moritz 2026 at Villa Beaulieu, the renovated former Klinik Gut. A review of the fair's ninth Swiss edition, its softer register, and the galleries that made it work.

Design Miami 2025's 21st edition, curated by Glenn Adamson around the theme Make. Believe. A Nakashima bench, a Harry Nuriev scenography for Kohler, and a Seoul studio's debut.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, reviewed. A Warhol Muhammad Ali at $18m, a $5.5m Richter in the first hour, and the first fair in two years that genuinely moved.

Takashi Murakami's eight-metre octopus on the Champ-de-Mars, a Louis Vuitton commission for Art Basel Paris 2025's public programme, reviewed. On handbags, public sculpture, and a return to large-scale work.

Design Miami/ Paris 2025 at L'hôtel de Maisons. Goyal and Tolaas's scent garden, Yves Macaux's Best Gallery Presentation, Lalanne's tortoise, and a fair two editions into maturity.

Art Basel Paris 2025 at the Grand Palais, reviewed. Mehretu at White Cube, Murakami's octopus on the Champ-de-Mars, and the fair's first edition that felt settled.

The Fondation Cartier's new home opens at 2 Place du Palais-Royal. Jean Nouvel, Haussmannian fabric, five mobile platforms, 600 works. A note from the opening night.

Frieze Masters 2025 at Regent's Park, reviewed. Ben Brown's turfed Lalanne booth, a Park Seo-Bo retrospective at Johyun, and a Gabriele Münter at Hauser & Wirth that moved.

Frieze London 2025, reviewed. A single-work booth at Sadie Coles, the Focus section doing its job, and a fair that feels stabilised after three difficult years.