Range Rover, Kohler, and the Brands Rewriting What Design Miami Means

Design Miami has always been the fair where the line between commerce and culture dissolves. But the 2026 partner program — running December 1 through 6 at Convention Center Drive and 19th Street in Miami Beach — takes that dissolution further than any previous edition. These are not booths. They are not activations. They are commissioned works, each one built around the fair's curatorial theme of Unveiling: the idea that every object holds a moment of revelation waiting to be uncovered. Curatorial director Charlene Prempeh set that theme — read her full vision here.

Range Rover arrives at Design Miami with Aura, an immersive installation that explores the relationship between material, craft, and emotion through the lens of modern luxury. The brief sounds familiar — luxury brand, immersive space — but the execution promises something more considered. Aura is built around the idea that luxury is not a finish or a price point but a feeling that accumulates through the quality of what surrounds you. Expect material richness, spatial intelligence, and the kind of quiet confidence that Range Rover has been building toward for years.

Gaggenau commissions sculptor John Vugrin for The Art of Presence, a work that sits at the intersection of nature, hand-craftsmanship, and architectural design. Gaggenau has long positioned itself as the appliance brand for people who think about kitchens the way architects think about buildings — as spaces where function and beauty are inseparable. Vugrin's installation extends that philosophy into sculpture, asking what it means for an object to have presence in a room.

This is the one that stops you cold. Kohler is opening its archives to the public for the first time ever, presenting 100 years of color, culture, and design under the title All For Color. A century of bathroom and kitchen design is, in fact, a century of American domestic life — the colors people chose for their homes, the palettes that defined decades, the moments when design became democratic. Kohler's archive is a cultural document, and Design Miami is the right place to reveal it.

Sprayground brings artist David BenDavid for SPRAYGROUND PULSE, an installation that imagines the discovery of a lost civilization of creatives — artists, designers, architects, musicians, writers, inventors, builders, craftspeople, storytellers, performers, and makers. It is a love letter to the creative class, rendered as archaeology. BenDavid's work has always operated at the intersection of street culture and fine art, and PULSE gives him the scale to make that argument at full volume.

Michal Kadar and CADAR present an immersive exploration of light, material, and movement, introducing a new expression of Circle of Light — a collection of sculptural vessels — alongside Spark, a diamond fine jewelry collection. The pairing of large-scale sculptural work with intimate jewelry is a deliberate provocation: what changes when you move from the scale of a room to the scale of a wrist? CADAR's answer involves light behaving differently at every scale, which is exactly the kind of idea Design Miami was built to host.

Maison Perrier-Jouët brings its botanical heritage to the fair, anchored by the emblematic Japanese white anemone painted in 1902 by Emile Gallé. The house has always understood that champagne is not just a beverage — it is a material culture, a design object, a relationship with nature. Their presence at Design Miami is less about product and more about the long conversation between craft, nature, and time that defines the maison's identity.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) brings alumni from across its design programs to elevate delicate details of the natural world into refined expressions of materiality and form. SCAD's presence at Design Miami is a reminder that the next generation of designers is already here — working with material intelligence, cultural specificity, and a fluency in both craft and concept that the field has not always had. Watch this space. See also: Apple's Designers of Tomorrow program at the fair.

The partner program is only one layer of the fair. The Special Projects and Curios programs are where the most ambitious commissioned works live — from Achille Salvagni's parchment-clad wood to Samuel Nnorom's textile constellations. The galleries sector brings the market. And the Curios program offers the most intimate, cabinet-of-curiosities format the fair produces. For the full picture of what's on — hours, tickets, and logistics — read the visitor guide.

Design Miami 2026 runs December 1 through 6 at Convention Center Drive and 19th Street, Miami Beach. Preview days are by invitation only (December 1–2); public hours begin Wednesday, December 2 at 1 PM. Tickets are available at redwoodartgroup.com.